It's a Wrap!

I planned on spending today doing all the wrapping. In years past, I have spent a whole day wrapping gifts with Christmas music playing. It's usually kind of relaxing and helps put me in the Christmas spirit. SO not the case this year.

Perhaps the day got off on the wrong note when I decided that the boys MUST have haircuts before Christmas. The kids haircut place near us has closed, we didn't have appointments anywhere and didn't really want to drive to the other end of town. We thought, "Hey, why don't we just go to Duane's barber?" The whole W. family piled into the car and off we went. We arrived at the barber shortly after they opened and we were the only people there. And then things started to go downhill. Ryan was not the least bit interested in having his haircut. It took both me and Duane to hold Ryan down in a vice like grip while the barber tried to cut his hair as quickly as possible. Wesley did better, but he had a little meltdown too.

After the boys were groomed we headed home to start wrapping gifts. Great plan, except Wesley REALLY wanted to help. Now, it's hard to tell a 4-year-old that he cannot help wrap Christmas gifts, so I let him pick out bows and put labels on the gifts. It definitely made things go slower and several of the packages have bows that don't match and some of the tags are so smeared you can hardly read them, but Wesley loved helping. He even told me, "Christmas is about giving, right?" So sweet.

Aunt Susan is spending Christmas in FL with her family, so she and Uncle Kirk came by for a while this evening. It was so nice to just hang out with them. We tried to teach Ryan to whistle by blowing across the top of a bottle. I'd blow across it, then Ryan would take the bottle and give it a try. Well, to be honest, he'd just stick the bottle in his mouth and hum. It was so funny!

Oh! In other news, Wesley has decided that Santa can indeed bring presents to our house this year. In fact, he asked me to call Mr. Claus to let him know. When Aunt Susan asked what Wesley wanted Santa to bring him, Wesley replied, "Whatever he brings is what I'll like!" Here's hoping he still feels that way on Christmas morning.