Another Christmas has come and gone. And wouldn't you know it I didn't take a single picture (sorry Grandma). It was nice and quiet around our house. We had dinner at my moms house on Christams Eve. It was just Shane, Sam, us and my mom. Sy and Marissa went to Oregon and Seth didn't come until the day after Christmas.
We have been telling Karter for a month that Santa was going to bring him some presents but that he was going to take his binky for a trade. Karter was fine with that and when you would ask him what was going to happen on Christmas he would say "no more dinky". So when we got home from my mom's we told him that Santa was going to come that night and we had to leave him his binky. I took his pacifier and put it in his stocking and then all @%$# broke loose. Karter started screaming "No my dink! No Danta my dink!" He grabbed his stocking from me and headed down the hall trying to dig it out. We tried some reasoning but failed. Finally Karl said to let him take it to bed and we would take it away in the morning. Christmas morning rolls around and we tell Karter that Santa has come and left him some presents. He looked at us covered his mouth and said "No my dink!" Hmm...who rules the roost around here.
Santa brought Karter an indoor trampoline. It's like those little exerciser ones but it has the net like the bigger trampolines. Karter loves the neighbors tramp so we thought he would be over joyed. But he just stood there looking at it. I guess wondering what it was doing in his living room. He loves it now and I'm glad he can burn some energy while being contained in a small area.
We did the usual rounds at the Grandma's houses and then had Christmas dinner with Karl's family. Nice and simple. And as much as I love the Christmas season I was glad to have it over with. All the decorations came down the day after and now the house looks empty, but clean.