Early Morning!

I was up pretty late last night, so mom figured she'd get to sleep in at least a little this morning. Not so much! I was WIDE awake at 5:30. She tried to get me to go back to sleep to no avail. We got up and had breakfast and she tried to get me to play quietly, but I was *really* cranky (gee, I wonder why).

I found Sly on a table playing with my Little Bits set! It's an engineering circuit set that daddy got me. I don't play with it every day, but I was pretty upset that Sly was playing with it today and I couldn't :( Dad said tomorrow we could play with all of the different circuits, though!



I'm getting a little less cautious about getting near the Elf - let's see how close I can get without actually touching him...



I ended up painting and making a card for Grammy (we'll send it as soon as we get stamps, I promise!) Coffee wasn't helping mom and she was really tired. After lunch, she tried to take a nap, but the doorbell rang, I woke her up, and she got a call for work, so that didn't work and she was pretty frustrated. We ended up just getting up and going shopping.

Mom and I had a fun dinner date and went to Macaroni Grill. She told me I could draw on the table and that was AWESOME! I even got a scoop of vanilla ice cream for dessert :) Mom had Blood Orange sorbet which was also quite yummy! We stopped at the book store on the walk back to the car and mom bought me two new books - Snowmen at Night and a Pete the Cat Christmas book. I've read them both at school, but thought they would be nice to have at home.

Note to other parents, though - don't take your kids into a book store right before Christmas when they sell Elf on the Shelf...I got quite upset at some adults picking up the Elf to look at it - I told them that it would lose it's magic!