McKay was excited for Christmas this year, as well as his sisters. (He was one of the ones who snuck downstairs early this morning!) He loves to help sort the presents (he was even sorting and counting presents several days before Christmas).
McKay's special ornament to start off our new Christmas tradition was a white sparkly snowflake, chosen because he always talks about the snow in Utah and Wyoming and takes after his dad in not always wanting to wear a jacket in cold weather.
McKay also loves to put up -- and especially to rearrange -- Christmas lights. He put up the lights on the bushes in our front yard this year and it seemed like every day he had gone out to move them around. (We finally had to bring some of them inside.) He even talks about wanting to use his own money to go buy more Christmas lights. :-)
At 9 years old, McKay is beginning to have his doubts about Santa Claus. This year he decided to leave a note for Santa next to the cookies:
Santa signed the note (in his own special red pen) as: "Kris Kringle or Santa".
McKay is also getting to be a hard boy to shop for. His last-minute requests for Santa were a joystick (for computer games) and some sort of hovercraft (that he saw a TV commercial for). However, instead of those things, he got lots of other good stuff.
McKay's presents included an interactive globe (which we have to take back and exchange because the battery compartment is corroded), an ant farm that uses a gel substance (still have to send away for the ants), several computer games and a Nintendo 64 game, a Snap Circuits electronic kit, a few board and card games, a set of small paper punches in different shapes (so he doesn't always borrow Mom's from her scrapbook stuff), a little kinetic energy "toy" consisting of a top you spin on a base that is supposed to keep spinning for hours/days at a time and several books.
McKay is a big non-fiction reader -- I have a hard time finding fiction books that he will read for his daily reading assignments. I saw some used books recently that I thought he would enjoy -- one group is a set on the childhoods of different famous Americans and the other group are history books for kids that focus on one event or landmark. He was excited about these and I think already read two of the history ones before bedtime.
(Here's another picture from a couple of days ago of McKay reading a non-fiction book about inventions with Hannah -- I liked how it turned out!)
McKay told me on Christmas Eve that he wondered if Santa would put a stuffed animal in his stocking (as Santa frequently does). He also told me he hoped Santa wouldn't do that this year because he really doesn't like stuffed animals anymore. Well, it turns out that Santa DID leave a stuffed animal in everyone's stocking again. These stuffed animals were WebKinz -- the first our kids have ever had. (WebKinz are stuffed animals that come with a code you can register on the WebKinz Web site to adopt and "interact" with your pet -- built it's room, play with it, feed it, play games to earn "money" to go "shopping" for stuff, etc.) McKay's WebKinz was a little pug dog:
As you can tell, McKay decided this little guy wasn't so bad after all. He has already adopted him online (he named him Pugster). I think he would have been quite disappointed if Santa hadn't left him one.
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