Time for some Christmas Catch-up entries!
Sometimes I forget that Emma is so young and still learning and exploring. She loves to be included in everything we do, she loves to participate in "big kid" things with Hayden. She loves to be included and I sometimes forget she is only 2. I realized this year how hard it can be for little ones to wait until Christmas to open beautifully wrapped presents.
Hayden had lovingly picked out some Disney Princess dress-up shoes for Emma.
He picked out some pretty wrapping paper . This beautiful package was the first present under the tree this year. Of course Emma knew it was for her (the princess wrapping and all). She tried every day to steal away with the present and open it up.
After a few days we took it from under the tree and hid it in another room. She found it. We moved it again. When she couldn't find it, she cried and cried.
I begain to think about things from the 2-yr old perspective - how mean it is to wrap something so beautiful with all the clues pointing to it being for her. And since she most likely can't remember last Christmas, she must have thought it a terrible trick that we were all playing on her!
On Christmas morning, she was thrilled to FINALLY open her present. It was worth the wait, she put on the shoes - over her flannel jammies with feet - and ran around the house in her high heels. The wait was finally over!
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