2015 Day 20 - Gift for Someone Special

Santa managed to put a few of special things in PJ's stocking this year that he was surprised and pleased about.

This summer, I let him play in the arcade room at the movie theatre and in the mall - he loves it...I hate it...but what are you to do, its a boy thing, right?  He's constantly trying to get into my wallet to see if I have money for him to play arcade games when we are at the mall...so I purchased several tokens from his favourite video game place, as well as an 'xscape' card from the arcade area at the Cineplex movie theatres....and set them aside for Santa to put in the TOE of his stocking...he would be SO SURPRISED!  Santa even put the coins in a little red bag.

2014 Day 20 - Gift for Someone Special

Pretty hard to top last year's Santa gift for PJ!  It was the 1st year that he had an idea of what he'd like from Santa...and when Santa came through, it was the BEST!  He wanted Hungry hippos AND (see link) vanilla sugar .  He was SO surprised and pleased - Santa wasn't so bad after all.

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This year on Dec 20, was our trip to see the Singing Christmas tree.  I brought my mother along so she could enjoy PJ at this concert (as well as enjoying the concert) and for part of her birthday gift.  I was starting to feel sick, so was eating cough drops throughout the performance.  There was lots of singing and dancing...one of the highlights were the dancing Santas.

2013 Day 20 - Gift for Someone Special

Instead of looking back to my childhood, I'm going back to last year.

Our son was never into Christmas or Santa or gifts - unwrapping was fun, but the items inside the wrapping paper - meh.  In 2012, he was a little more into it because I think he remembered the prior year there were gifts from Santa that he was really happy with.

Buying gifts for him is difficult because he doesn't really play with anything, so hitting that "perfect" gift is tough - he doesn't ask for anything, and isn't interested in anything so its pretty much a crap shoot.  Scouring what looks popular and trying to figure out if he'll be interested in it at all.

I went with a heavy emphasis to Toy Story and vehicles because he kind of gravitates to those things - so Santa brought him books and puzzles and cars with Toy Story theme.  As I was about to fill his stockings I thought - I know what he'd really like....NIBS and Red Lollipops!  Those are the only candy he'll eat and its the only "treat" that we can use as motivators, so he doesn't get them unless he achieves a task.

I got a little baggie and filled it with NIBS and put it, and a bunch of red lollipops at the toe of his stocking.

The next morning, he was actually a little curious about whether Santa brought anything and sure enough, there were full stockings and a Buzz & Woody race car set waiting for him.  He ran to the gifts, but I got him to stop long enough to wait for Dad to come and while we were waiting I got him to read his letter from Santa (which had the same handwriting as the letters I received when I was a kid...he must be real).

He was opening up stocking stuffers and there was paper and stuff everywhere.  He thought he was all done and was marching over to the tree to start with THOSE gifts when I said...are you sure you got everything out of your stocking?  He went back and stuck his hand in and pulled out a baggie and looked at it and screamed....NIBS!  Then he stuck his hand in again and he could tell by the feel that it was lollipops and he started giggling and smiling and saying....oohhh.  I asked what it was and he pulled them out and yelled LOLLIPOPS with a big grin on his face.

When my parents arrived later in the morning they asked what Santa brought him and he said NIBS and Lollipops!

The Perfect Gift for my someone special.

Here's the face when he realized there were lollipops....