This was the first shot. Then a whole lot of flubs. Lots of closed eyes, blurry movements and Kai either crying or scrunching his nose pretty much non stop.
Mary and Charles sent us a 2020 tp/elf tree ornament. Funny thing, it arrived from Amazon and it was the third delivery of the day and I wasn't expecting another Amazon order, the gift card was on top and I thought that I'd shopped so much from Amazon that they sent us a gift. Haha.
Their bowl was empty this morning. They were hovering. Oliver being the jerk he can be dove in first. We all cater to Lewis because he isn't around as often so I gave him his own bowl. Then Walter and Jenny looked sad so they got their own too. Esmei has her own bowl upstairs. She's special and tiny and I worry about her getting a turn.
These Pokemon figures arrived and I didn't want to wrap anymore so I just gave them to Kai today. He's calling them rare action figures and he loves them. I'm guessing they'll be missing soon, they're much too small for him to keep track of. It's fun watching him show them off to Luk and Jia, who aren't jealous in the least. They don't play with toys anymore, sob.
Giving Eric a break and eating out. Lili and I made lots of calls and found three restaurants open for dinner. We went to the Sawmill in Chemainus. Food was fabulous.
Look at me blending in.
Kids are asking what our Christmas Eve traditions are. We don't really have any. Other than reading T'was the Night Before Christmas and giving the kids new jammies. We skipped cookies and milk for Santa this year. I told Kai Dr. Bonnie said not to leave them because of covid. Also that I was sure Santa packed his own. Lili thought that would mean we wouldn't get cookies later so Eric stopped at the 49th and got cookies for our drive ;)
Had to sit 5 and 2 re health orders. Also had to give 2 separate phone numbers for contact tracing. Beyond stupid. I'm all for following rules and the greater good and protecting the vulnerable but some of these things are just too silly.
Eric drew the castle and Kai added another tower and dragons :)
The plan was to get hot chocolate from Tim's and drive around looking at lights. But Tim's was closed. And the other Tim's was closed. And the other, other Tim's was closed. And the other fave coffee shops were closed. So slurpees from 7-11 it was. Except for Kai who got gas station hot chocolate because he isn't great about switching gears.
We stopped to see this one because we thought Kai would love the big blow up things. He couldn't see them. His vision is that bad at night.
It wasn't Capilano or Butchart or the Christmas train but it was a decent pandemic night.
