I thought it would be good practice for the kids to give gifts to Jack and me. I don't want to actually spend a lot of time or money on it though, lol. So today I took the girls to the Dollar Tree.
It's only about 4 minutes from where we live, but they really enjoy when I mount my phone to the dashboard and let them watch our progress on Google maps. Clara kept asking if we were going to the Christmas store, And whether they had 100,000 or a million presents. I told her we were going to a store that had a lot of Christmas supplies though possibly not 100,000.
When we got there they enjoyed looking at a lot of the Christmas stuff that's up front. I had to explain to them many times over that we were looking for gifts for their dad, not for them. Clara wanted to buy a gift for her teddy bear, Bobo. She was a lot more interested in that than finding a gift for Jack. I tried to avoid the toy aisle, because I knew they would get distracted with what they wanted. Jane noticed calculators in the office supply aisle (she thought they were phones), so she picked one of those out for Jack. I convinced Clara to pick a magnetic notepad and some nice pens and Jane also chose a headset.
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| Jane considered getting Jack a little doll set. She said he'd like it. |
Then we went to the Christmas card section and they each picked out one for him. Clara's was one of the ones that's supposed to hold cash, although of course she doesn't know that. Jane's was one addressed to someone's son with love.
I brought cash just for the occasion, and I had each girl check out separately so they could each hand the dollars to the cashier. When Clara got her change she jumped up and down and giggled in excitement. Jane did not notice as much, because she was more interested in all the example balloons on display beyond the cash registers.
On the way home both girls talked a lot about The change Clara had, which they called monies. Clara dropped a coin and said she had three monies and now she only has two monies. Jane reassured her that they would find it together. Jane is so sweet and attentive to Clara sometimes. Clara was excited to get home to put the coins in our coin jars in the kitchen.
When we got home we busted out some of the brand new Christmas wrapping paper I recently bought, as well as ribbons and to/from tags. Clara helped cut the wrapping paper, and she and Jane each chose the color ribbons for their respective gifts. They watched with great interest and anticipation each time I filled out a tag to Jack from one of them. Calvin participated by walking all over the wrapping paper and trying to take supplies from us the whole time we were using them. And also at one point he kept hitting the wrapping paper with a fork. But he tends to stay content if he feels like he gets to be involved. As we finished wrapping each gift, the daughter it was from would go put it under our Christmas tree.
Once we were done with all of it, I found a small box for Clara to put a stuffed monkey in to give as a gift to Bobo. I had tried to tell her that Bobo is a stuffed animal, and stuffed animals don't get gifts. She responded that Bobo is a person, and should have a gift. Then she referred to him as "person Bobo" as we discussed it. Anyway Jack helped her wrap the gift for Bobo.
Since then Jane and Clara but especially Jane have asked me multiple times when we are going to open the presents. We keep explaining it won't happen until Christmas, but that doesn't stop them from asking. Clara said it's taking a long time.
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