Once we arrived back in Keystone it was busy leading up to Christmas. Colin did a little relaxing and playing on the playground at Grandma and Grandpa's house. He and Grandma made a gingerbread house together and Colin spent a lot of time loving on a little stray dog that decided to make herself at home and move right on in. Seeing how excited he was about that dog and how well he was trying to take care of it made me so excited to get home and bring home our new puppy Cooper for him.
There was a big family Christmas party at Shauna and Dave's house and Santa Claus even made a guest appearance. This was the first time that Shauna had ever hired a Santa, so there was a bit of a learning curve. Everyone at the party had drawn the name of someone else for a secret santa exchange. All the gifts were left on the front porch waiting for Santa to bag them up and come on in. There were at least 40 presents in poor Santa's sack. As Santa started pulling out gifts and passing them out, some went to kids and some went to grown ups. Poor Colin's gift was way down at the bottom of the bag. He sat there so patiently, but after about half the room and most of the kids all had their stuff already he started looking pretty worried. With each gift Santa pulled from his bag to hand out poor Colin melted just a little more. He hung his head, he put his face in his hands and he fought back tears. I was so proud of him, but my heart just broke for his sweet little self. When Santa finally called his name he practically leaped into his lap and the whole room breathed a sigh of relief. After he had his gift he was back to his happy, carefree self again and he even forgave Santa and sat in his lap and listed off the names of each Transformer he was wishing to find under the tree on Christmas morning. The lesson of the day...make sure the kid presents are in the top of Santa's bag!
Colin, Dawson and Brennan took part in the living nativity at Shauna and Dave's church one evening. The boys looked so cute as the three wise men and they did a great job. Colin really had to pee in the middle and you could tell he was looking around nervously and shifting a lot, trying to avoid the pee pee dance. As soon as I was able to I snagged him from the scene and rush him to the bathroom.
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