It’s been many hours since Christmas, so it’s time for a look back at the best and worst of Christmas 2008.
For Corwin, he probably liked his new Lego™ Star Wars™ starship kit. Second would be a utility card, which is about the size of two credit cards stacked with a toothpick, knife, sharp pin, screw driver / file, and the two things which were must haves for Corwin — scissors and tweezers. I can still hear him, sitting on the couch with it, going “tweezers!”.
Charles’ clear favorite was this huge crane vehicle kit. As noted Charles became obsessed with completing the kit to the exclusion of opening his last present. He had a couple of melt downs when things didn’t work out. Charles, in contrast to his normal fanaticism did not follow the instructions precisely and in one case had skipped an entire page of instructions. But Dad, clever, helpful, compassionate Dad, was there to fix things for his little Sparky.
Charles also liked his new Nintendo DS but didn’t actually spend that much time playing on it.
Alice liked all her stuff, which had a strong Sleeping Beauty theme. She got a DVD, and a big drawing activity pad, and a stationary kit. She liked all of it, except for the movie which was “too scary”.