Santa came to visit Grant's school yesterday. It was a big deal. Santa brought presents for everyone! Actually, they asked the parents about 2 weeks ago to bring a covert package so that each kid could have something from him. *sigh* I've already done my Christmas shopping. I'm done. Finito. Jalas! That was one thing I was on top of this year. I had already bought a bushel of books for stockings and presents, so I did some present rearranging and put one of his Christmas morning presents in a gift bag and took it to his teacher.
Yesterday, the motivation for him going to school was that Santa was coming to visit. Yay! It's a bit hard right now to get him out the door because his sisters are out of school already and just lounging at home. Anyway, Grant got to school, I went to the gym and through the rest of my day. 3pm comes; it's time to pick up Grant. I go pick him up and get home. We're taking off shoes in the entryway when I ask him about the Christmas party at school.
"How was the party with Santa today?"
very unenthusiastically, "Okay."
"Really? Did Santa bring you anything?"
"Yep."
"Well, what did Santa bring you?"
"I don't like it."
"What? What was it?"
"He bring me a book and I don't like the book. I want a toy."
Oooo-kay. "Well, bring me the book, let's see what it's about."
"I don't like it. I leave it at school."
He didn't like the book, so he left it at school. This started my thought process running. Where would he leave it? What would he do with it? Did he throw it away? We got to school this morning and I started scouring the book racks for his book. It's a fun book, I remember it from my Reading Rainbow days, it's called 'Gregory the Terrible Eater', about a goat that doesn't like to eat junk and wants to eat vegetables and spaghetti. I hunted high and low and could not find that dang book anywhere. I was about to go ask the teacher when I remembered that each child has a paperwork cubby. I pulled out the drawer and voila! There is it, gift bag and all. I may have some last minute shopping to do. Maybe Bakier stationary has some Spiderman paraphernalia. Really, anything with Spiderman on it will win this boy's heart. I got it! A book about Spiderman! Now where will I find that in Egypt? Hmmmmmm . . . . .
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Butterfly in the sky, I can fly twice as high! Lake a look! Its in a book! A reading rainbow!!
I'm going to finish singing the song to myself now. :)
Aww... Torn emotions here. On the one hand, you want him to appreciate books, but on the other, you want him to enjoy Christmas! Man... I don't think an amazon package would make it there by Christmas... Good luck!
Not sure exactly how legal these pages are, but you could print them out, staple them together, and pretend you bought him a Spiderman colouring book.
I doubt an Amazon package would get here in time, either, so just an idea...
That's a possibility. Thanks! We have another website that we print Spiderman coloring pages off of and we've just about exhausted their assortment! He cuts them out and then plays with them like action figures. p.s. that's what grandma got him for christmas! so i don't think he's going to care what else we get him! ;-)
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