Christmas 2005

Sarah had a wonderful Christmas this year filled with presents and family. She has already had 5 seperate parties with one more to come. It's nuts trying to get her around to see everyone and also not run too rampant. Next year will be interesting with one more for us on the way and my sister being pregnant.

I know I had a heck of a time putting together a list of gifts to give to Santa this year. Sarah is so smart, that anything age appropriate bores her, and anything intelligence appropriate has small piece or other age issues. The Lego Duplo Thomas and Friends sets ended up under the tree this year. She has played with some of Paige's trains and has shown an interest, so we decided to foster and encourage this. The set she got had a bridge that she loved putting the trains on the top of and pushing them down the ramp. This toy went over big.

This was also a green Christmas without even trying, which made me happy. She got a bunch of wooden toys (blocks, puzzles), as well as soy based crayons and the Legos, which are PVC free.

Sarah also loves her 20 gallon fish tank we set up last week. We went out on Monday morning and bought 10 fish. 5 Zebra Danios and 5 Leopard Danios. All are still alive this morning. Sarah stood at the tank while drinking her milk watching the fish swim. She enjoyed telling me that they were going 'round and 'round.