Finn and Santa, Christmas, and money

Finn seems to be much more aware of Santa, and much more excited for Christmas, than Liam was at his age. I'm so glad he has a big brother to teach him such things. Several times today he asked me when Santa was coming.

We went out for a a little hike at Radnor Lake this afternoon, and before we got started, Liam had to use the restroom. As I waited with Finn, I decided to make some small talk. Knowing he'd asked Santa for a helicopter a few days ago, I casually asked him what he thought Santa would bring him. He affirmed his desire for a helicopter. When I asked him what he thought Santa might bring me, he paused, then said, "A football?" I said, sure, a football would be nice, and asked what he thought Santa would bring daddy. Again, "maybe a football?" Was I missing a latent desire or something? What was with the footballs??

Anyway, after our hike we ate a little and went to the family service at church. The boys demonstrated the worst behavior of any of the kids there. Fortunately, when the offeratory was being passed around and Finn declared, very loudly, "I WANT MY MONEY" over and over again, most people seemed eager to believe he said he wanted his mommy. In his defense, he wanted to put money in the bowl, but still.

In the spirit of the "A Christmas Story" movie, and remembering the fa-ra-ra-ra-ra's, we decided to stop by the only restaurant open on the way home and get some Chinese take out. It was the best asian food I had had in years. Yum. When we finally got the boys to bed and were able to spend a minute talking to each other without constant interruptions ("Why do people have hair? What about bald people? etc) I had a revelation, about four hours too late. Matt had brought up two gifts for the boys from his partner, and they were in gift bags under the tree. I myself had peeked a few days ago, so I knew that they contained footballs. The little sneak.

Merry Christmas!

More Finn'isms

A few more of Finn's funny sayings in the last two days:

Yesterday, Liam proclaimed (to Matt's horror) that his favorite candy was a peppermint candy cane. Finn replied that his favorite was a broccoli-cane. Then he laughed very loudly. A discussion of lemon-canes, chocolate canes, and mailbox-canes ensued.

Today, as we waited to see Santa (see the picture) the boys were bored, so I gave them pens to draw on the flyers. They both scribbled for several minutes, and then gave us their papers to hold. Matt looked at Finn's drawing and said, "That's a nice snowflake, Finn." Finn took the drawing back, reexamined it, and said, "No, it's a spiderweb." And really, it did look a lot more like a spider web.

Later, as we got them ready for naps, Finn asked me to take his socks off. Then he put one of his socks on his hand, said, "I'm a puppet!" Then he made the 'puppet's' mouth move, and said, "an alligator puppet!!" and chased us with it. So cute.

His spontaneity and creativity never cease to amaze us. The fact that he is the most stubborn boy on the planet mitigates our delight somewhat, but nonetheless, he's pretty fun these days.

Soooo scary!

Finn sometimes says the most surprising and funny things.

Last night, after bathtime, Matt was drying Finn's hair, and the towel was draped over Finn's head and around his body. As Matt is rubbing Finn's head, Finn says, "I'm a ghost! Oooooooooooooooooo!" It was so utterly spontaneous and cute.

I need to be better about keeping the blog up to date, because I forget these cute things so quickly!!