Lucy’s big gift from Santa was this neat wooden puppet theatre. At the bottom of the front, there’s a chalkboard to write the next performance, and when it starts. It came with four finger puppets to do the play Puss n’ Boots. We’ve already got a great collection of fish finger puppets from Ikea, as well as many others to create some neat shows.

But probably the favourite present Lucy received? A $2 flashlight. Which, apparently, she had to get nekkid to celebrate with (why does my child always strip down when she’s excited? This better not be a trend that extends into teenagehood…). At least now she’s not stealing ours from our nightstands. She loves to peer down the basement stairs through the cat door the previous owners installed, shine it under the bed, in dark rooms, and, of course, your eyes.

Santa brought Alice a pink doll, like Lucy asked him to (that, however, is a reindeer puppet of Lucy’s that Alice is obviously so happy to have shoved in her face. You can see she’s trying to tell Eric to piss off). We actually did not buy her anything this year. I felt guilty, at first, but we knew she would be spoiled by our awesome families, and really couldn’t think of what to get her at this age. And I know we’ll make up for it next year.

And Santa didn’t forget Spencer Dog: He got a paw-full of his favourite treats.

Was Santa good to you and your little ones?

Possibly related posts:

1. Merry Christmas
2. Breakfast (and dancing) with Santa. With cookie licking!
3. Lucy’s letter to Santa
4. Breakfast with Santa in the Boonies
5. Have you seen the ouchie? And the band-aid? On her finger? Where it hurts? And there’s a band-aid? And Mummy kisses it better? Where the band-aid is?