Charles and the chocolate

I lost Charles for a bit this morning. I was busy paying bills over the phone and fixing a setting error from updating my phone. I realized Charles was very quiet. I walked through the dining room and spied him sitting under the table. He had gotten into our advent calendar with treat boxes and was eating the Hershey's kisses! 

You can see one box was put in sideways and some if those backwards boxes are dated for the 20th or other future dates!

Last night he got in trouble with the elves because he shook the table trying to get the chocolate and made them fall to the floor. Daddy had to get a spatula to pick them back up. (Remember, if they are touched they lose their magic.)

The Advent wreath has been moved to a higher, safer place.

Coloring

Charles is coloring Christmas pictures this morning. As I encouraged him to color blue for Grover, he spontaneously named their body parts as he colored each one: eye, nose, leg, hand, head. So cute!

First Hanukkah

We had a blended Thanksgiving this year with Miss Gloria's family. Miss Gloria is Jake's special friend. She is Jewish, and this year Thanksgiving and Hanukkah were on the same day, so the boys got to celebrate Hanukkah for the first time. After dinner, Miss Gloria's sister read the boys a Hanukkah story, then they got to help light the menorah, but most exciting was getting their Hanukkah gift!

Watch out, ornaments!

Charles has taken out three ornaments already! The first, in all fairness, was my Donald Duck jumping jack that has popped apart each year, but the next was a snow globe that he dropped against another snow globe so that is puddled in my Christmas storage box on top of my nutcracker and nativity boxes. Poor Mickey Mouse will no longer play Santa in a snowstorm. The third ornament was William's keepsake Hallmark ornament from age 2: Buzz and Woody flying through the air. Charles was playing with the "toys" and making flying noises when I realized they were not play figures. Buzz's leg had been broken off as had Woody's arm. It was like life imitating art--except Woody's arm was repaired with super glue rather than being re-stitched.