Merry early Christmas

My brother and his family came over to my parents' on Saturday. They never come on the actual holidays so we get extra holiday celebrations, which can be good or bad depending on how you look at it. Actually it was a really nice day. My SIL was sociable, my brother didn't say anything too off-putting and the kids had a great time. And I have to thank my SIL mightily for choosing Scrabble Jr. and Yahtzee Jr. as two of his gifts. Brendan really loves games and he's so enamored of these two. I have to admit that I really like them too. Maybe I'm just tired of Candyland and Chutes and Ladders, but these were alot of fun. Particularly the Yahtzee Jr. with the Disney characters. Every time I hear Brendan pronounce Mowgli as "Moogalee", I split a side.

The holiday humor continued today. A woman at the diner we were at for breakfast this morning asked Brendan if he was ready for Santa. He told her "No, Santa doesn't come until the 25th, today is only the 18th." She laughed and asked if he'd written a letter to Santa and her told her "no, not until the 23rd."

My mom had planned to take Brendan to visit her old school to see the children's chorus do their winter concert on Friday. If there was a transit strike though the concert was going to be cancelled because there would have been a 2 hour delay in school starting. She told Brendan on Thursday she didn't know if they'd be able to go the next day because there might be a strike. Today he's brushing his teeth and tells me, "When there's a stripe on the school, you can't have any music." LOL

Brendan and Kyle one of the three or four times they put together the map of the US (Brendan telling Kyle all the capitals and Kyle telling Brendan what football team plays in each state), Brendan in ecstasies playing Yahtzee, the two little men watching the game, and my nut boy at home while we were playing Scrabble Jr.