1) Your almost 4 year old wants to help you decorate everything. And I mean help take it out of the box, decide where it should go, figure out how it works and see if he can play with it
2) Once he has placed your lovely, cherished decoration where he thinks it should go, he will return 5 minutes later to look at it, figure out how it works and see if he can play with it some more.
3) Placing your lovely, cherished decoration out of his reach like on the mantel or on a table doesn't really work anymore. He is either tall enough he can reach it or he will climb onto a chair and precariously lean his body over standing on one foot on the armrest of the chair until he has captured your lovely, cherished decorations.
4) You will figure out which Christmas ornaments are made out of glass and which ones are cheap plastic. Very quickly.
5) You will discover in the attic while getting your ornament boxes out that there is a clothes bin that has been "hiding" behind some other boxes. Since you don't recognize the clothes on the top you will proceed to take the box downstairs where you will find many clothes that you bought for your now 4 year old that he was supposed to wear this past summer. You will curse yourself for forgetting that these clothes were in the attic and daydream about how excited he would have been to wear shark swim trunks and pirate alligator swim trunks at the beach.
Benefits of Christmas:
1) Your almost 4 year old wants to help you decorate everything. He is so excited about Christmas this year!
2) Shouting out together in the car "Christmas Lights!" every single time you drive by a house that is decorated beautifully.
3) Your almost 4 year old will actually do a craft with you for longer than 5 minutes. We did this together and it took at least 30 minutes and he was so focused on making it look just right.
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| It's our countdown to Christmas Day with little baby Jesus under the tree. |
4) He will be so excited to pick out gifts for other people. The idea of giving because you love someone is making so much sense.
5) The look on his face when he sees our Christmas tree all lit up and decorated. Every single time.
Haha this is cute :)
ReplyDeleteHaha! Agree with Ash. I feel like I remember Mom and Dad having a play, or at least non-breakable nativity set for Katie and me to play with so we wouldn't get into the nice stuff.
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