Santa Came to our House!
It was close when it came to the naughty:nice ratio some days
You Guys!
You would never believe what happened! Santa came to our house!
All she had to do was go to bed and more importantly - stay in the bed. That seemed to be the bigger issue this holiday. Dad went to bed at 11pm only to be woken at 1 am by the child telling me she's scared.
She was not scared. Excited? Yes. Scared? no.
I had just got her back to bed and was falling asleep when she came back to my side of the bed again. (it's always my side). I tapped BW on the shoulder and said "your turn".
BW dutifully went and just crawled into the bed with the child. And if you've ever slept in the same bed with a child you will know how much a good sleep you do not get, so kudos to BW for taking one for the team.
And then we made it to 6:30🕒 and then the child was awake and ready to go!
Down we went to see what was under the tree. Despite the fact that our bank balance states otherwise we really didn't go overboard this year with gifts. Of course Santa came through with a Furby (how did he know?).
She doesn't quite understand that this is 26 year old technology at this point and that furby doesn't really understand all that you say to it. It doesn't seem to stop her when it comes to having fun and talking to her even though it seems to me furby is broken - or inebriated - it's hard to tell which.
She was given a few other things like clothes and some modeling clay, etc but the main event was the Furby. Without a doubt - it's all about the Furby for Christmas 2024
One advantage of our child wanting non popular toys is that I just had to click a button and it arrived at the door. I didn't have to scramble to get the last Elmo or whatever toy of the year is. With the furby, this toy is so old it's almost like buying a time machine when you turn in on and you can barely make out what the heck the thing is saying. In 1998 AI was just a dream and an idea for a bad movie and it was not replacing jobs that's for sure.
She seems to be happy with her dated and obsolete toy technology though and she talks to it and tries to feed it and give it blankets and there's been no complaints about gifts so I'll call that a win and call Christmas 2024 to be officially in the record books with one furby-loving five-year-old in bed asleep.
Talk about win-win.
