Santa's Recall

Dear Kaylee,

All you asked Santa for this year was a Flutterbye Flying  Fairy. You saw it in a Toys R Us ad and fell in love instantly! Sure enough, Santa brought you the Fairy. We plugged it in right away to let it charge. It only took about 30 minutes to charge it up but it felt like several hours to you. Finally, it was ready. We showed you which button to push to make her fly and everyone stood back to watch the magic.

Unfortunately, the fairy was much stronger than anticipated and you were looking directly down on her. She flew straight into your face with enormous power. It looked like it hurt so bad! You started sobbing. The dream was over. You wanted nothing to do with that fairy again. We told you that Santa's toys were returnable and we would go find something else.

Everyone we saw asked you how your Christmas was and what Santa brought you and you told them all about how the fairy hit you in the face. You were so upset about the whole situation. The next day we went to Josie's house to visit family. We were there for a couple hours. When we got home there was a surprise waiting for you!

Under the tree, the fairy had disappeared and there was a new toy! All the characters from the movie Frozen in big box! There was a note too!

It was a recall notice! Turns out, the Boogie Man tried to steal Christmas and put a curse on all the Flutterbye Fairies. Thousands of little girls got hit in the face on Christmas morning and as a result Santa had to recall all the fairies. He even enlisted the help of The Guardians to collect all the fairies and distribute replacement toys. Santa wished you well and promised to increase security at the North Pole next year to avoid another recall.

You were thrilled! You played with your new princesses and they even snuggled in bed with you as you fell asleep. Christmas saved....

The best part of the whole ordeal was when we were reading the recall notice to you and we got to the part about the other little girls getting hit in the face by the fairies. You gave me this angry look that said, "Stupid Fairy." ha ha. I am still giggling about that look on your face.

I love you! I'm so sorry that you were a victim of the Boogie Man's mischief and am so glad that all has been made right in your world.

Merry Christmas!
Mommy

Santa

Dear Bubbas,
We had such a fun night last night! It was really needed too. We had a pretty rough day. We had to sit at Russell's cardiologist appointment for 2 hours (his heart is perfect!), then Connor lost his cool on the way home, Hunter and Kaylee were getting grumpy from all the activity and noise.... needless to say we all needed a nap. However, you haven't taken a nap in a couple of weeks. For a variety of reasons nap time got cut from our schedule rather suddenly. I decided to play my bribery card in order to get you to take a nap and save my sanity. I told you all if you took a nap we would stay up late and go visit Santa. You were asleep within minutes!

Daddy got home and I sprung it on him that we were leaving to see Santa before the store closed! Not his favorite way to come home, but he was a great sport! We loaded into the van and were off! We always go to Beaver Bark. We saw the reindeer and had a good visit with Santa. You all told him very clearly what you wanted; Hunter a keyboard, Connor a telescope, and Kaylee a flying fairy. The store wasn't busy so by the time we were done it was still really early. We loaded into the van to go home and Daddy changed the course. He decided we should go to the mall for Cinnabons. It was a rather great idea.

We wandered around the mall eating Cinnabons and pretzels, played at the kid zone, smelled candles and tested products at Bath and Body works, picked out some new pajamas, and just had a good time together. We even played a game where you got a point for every person you told Merry Christmas too. Kaylee was pretty darn adorable with her little voice saying "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" to complete strangers. Everyone she said it to just burst into a huge grin and said it back.

It was a good night. I'm glad I got to spend it with you. I love you!
Mommy

Army Crawling

Dear Russell,

We have to get our gates up this week. You are army crawling all over our living room and just the last couple of days you have been pulling yourself up onto your knees. I know you are going to be crawling by Christmas. You just have places to go and things to do! It's really cute to watch you move around.

We got you a sippy cup. You try your hardest to pick it up and use it yourself but almost every time I have to put it in your hands and help you tip it back. You love it though and work really hard on trying to figure it out. I also let you have peas for the first time the other day. You spent over thirty minutes trying to pick them up and get them in your mouth. If you were able to pick it up, it almost never made it into your mouth before you dropped it. After I let you practice (while I made dinner) I helped you out and you were pretty pleased with finally being able to eat some of them!

I love the looks that you give everyone. You are always full of smiles. You absolutely adore other babies. The other night Leanne's baby Daisy was here and you were doing everything you could to get her attention. When she would look up, you got so excited and just burst into big 'ol smiles.

We've been letting you taste all sorts of fun things; pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, Candy Canes, sherbert. You pretty much love all of it! What a great time of year to be able to try new foods.

There isn't much to tell you right now, besides you are absolutely the sweetest little boy in the world. I just love snuggling with you. You are all Mommy's boy right now. You only want Mommy to rock you and take care of you. You like playing with Daddy but when it comes down to it, you need your Mom....and I love it. This time is so fleeting, before you'll be Daddy's boy wrestling and running all over the place. Needless to say, I am eating up all the attention you're giving me and hope it continues for several more months!

I love you sweet boy!
Mommy