O has been extremely excited about Christmas. He is 4 now so it is expected. He fully understands the tradition of putting up the Christmas tree. Hell, he has been asking us to put up the tree all year round. His philosophy is “If you put it up… he will come (and bring presents).”

So Sunday, we put up our tree, decorated it, listened to Christmas music and when all was said and done… felt really happy and accomplished.

The next morning, O raced into our bedroom and said… “Mommy…. where are the presents?” Poor guy. He figured if we put up the tree that meant that Santa was sure to come and pay him a visit. No wonder he went to bed without complaints the night before.

I explained to him that Christmas is 25 days away. Since he doesn’t yet have a good concept of time, we took the liberty of building a Santa calendar this evening. You know… construction paper, Elmer’s glue, cotton balls, etc. He had a blast and now he knows that all he has to do is count the days without the cotton balls to see how close we are to Christmas!

In other news…. he told Brodykins (the baby… currently going into the 6 month) that he could just dip him (Brodykins) in his coffee. LOL! The kid doesn’t even drink coffee… watered down juice maybe… but not coffee. Ah well.. I suppose that will go up there with his zip lining hobby. You got it– zip lining. A couple of weeks ago he told his preschool teacher that he likes to zip line. Imagine the look on her face when she asked “Does he go zip lining?” I am ashamed to admit that my 4 year old knew what zip lining was. I had no clue. The preschool teacher actually had to define it for me.

So now that I know I can clarify….no… no we do not let our 4 year old hang onto some kind of smallish contraption while soaring on a rope 1,000 feet above land.

So O is keeping us in stitches. I love his personality! He is so funny! When asked what he wants for Christmas, we get different answers. Yesterday it was Transformers, today it is a clock, tomorrow it will probably be something that comes with a turbocharger.