We've already been asked for ideas about the girls' Christmas, so I figured I'd just put this up for everybody.
We'd really prefer not to get toys this year. Nadine's and Claudia's rooms are full and at Nadine's request we're going through her toys and getting rid of what she doesn't play with anymore. She gets overwhelmed easily and has been telling me she just wants a room that is "easy to keep nice", so we're going to do that for her. WE aren't even buying toys this year. The truth is the girls just don't play with them, and they have their "lovies" as far as dolls and stuffed animals...
We're getting her an easel and a little desk for Christmas since she's so interested in art, so anything to go with that would be a huge plus. Plans for her room have changed, and she's going to have a lavender Tinkerbell room, so if you'd like to get her something for her room that fits in with Tinkerbell that would be a good thing too. Nadine's been wanting the Sleeping Beauty movie that's being released on DVD soon, too.
Claudia is insanely into books lately, so any sort of book would be great. She asks to be read to (no kidding!) a half dozen times a day. She's not so much into traditional story books but the books that are more about learning. She has a book called the "B Book" about a little girl collecting things that begin with "B". They have other letters too and I've thought about collecting them for her. She's more the little brainiac than she lets on most of the time. She can count to 12 and loves counting-type books, too. She'll shock you in walmart by reading the numbers on the price tag, too. She'll play dumb more often than not, though. I don't know what we are going to do for her for Christmas. She may get some sort of educational kids video game console, but I haven't researched enough to know which one we're going to get..
Funny thing is, her and Nadine both look over my shoulder into my books while I'm studying. They like the "big-girl books" as Nadine calls them. They both go NUTS over my art appreciation texts. Nadine has some pretty strong opinions about paintings, especially about color combinations and whether the artist knew what he was doing putting those colors in there. We did have an interesting incident with my nutrition text. I turned the page and there is an anatomical drawing of a _complete_ male. ;) I didn't say anything and just sort of waited to see what the girls would say. I didn't want to just rush and turn the page because the drawing was by no means pornographic or inappropriate. Nadine asked "why did they leave THAT part on there?!?" and giggled, so I told her that Mommy is learning all about our bodies to be a nurse so sometimes I have to look at drawings of private parts of the body. She was satisfied by that but had to tell Dean that drawings of "daddy parts" were in my book. I guess the funniest part is that right beside the male was a fully nude anatomical drawing of a female and there were no "Boobie!!!" exclamations from Claudia. They were both too focused on daddy parts or maybe they've just seen mommy parts too much from interrupting my showers to really care about that anymore.
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