Wrapping

Laura got the greatest laugh out of my wrapping challenges.  I have great difficulty estimating how much paper to cut out to wrap each present and I often need little pieces of wrapping paper to cover the part of the presents that weren't covered by the original piece.  Laura got a particular laugh out of the little square of paper that I used on the bottom of the Pringles can.

Straws

Laura knew that I reused my straws when I drink my diet Pepsi out of a can.  So she got a friend of hers to buy a set of stainless steel straws for me for Christmas.  I opened up the present on Christmas morning and didn't know what they were.  I thought they were something that needed to be assembled and the first thing I did was try to put them together.  Laura got it on video and it was very funny.

Choked

Barb was taking her vitamin pills before bed and Julia was talking about how good the singing of our Christmas carols was on our side of the room compared to her side of the room and rolled her eyes as she pointed to where Barb was sitting.  Barb started laughing at the face Julia made and started choking on her pills.

Bananas

Barb took us for a walk around the neighbourhood.  She wanted to show us the banana tree on the neighbour's front lawn that had a bunch of little green bananas growing on it.  We had never seen bananas growing in the wild.  It was very strange.

Paddles

We were sitting at the dinner table and of course pickleball came up in conversation.  When pickleball came up, Barb turned around in her chair and without getting up she opened the cupboard behind her and pulled out a couple of pickleball paddles.  Sarah said only Barb could do that.

Another Sweater

Before the girls got here, Barb was working on a sweater for Sarah.  She didn't quite finish it in time but she kept working on it after they arrived and she tried to hide what she was knitting.  She finally finished it but she didn't like how it looked.  I didn't notice any problem but Barb is a perfectionist.  So Sarah tried it on to make sure it fit and then Barb unwound the sweater and started again.

Sweater

Barb found a design for a little knitted sweater and made one as a present to give to one of her friends if she was invited to a Christmas party.  There were a lot of different designs.  Barb made one that looked like a Christmas tree.  As soon as Laura saw it, she wanted to put it on Agumon and it fit perfectly.  Barb and Laura looked through all the patterns and picked out a few Laura thought Agumon would like.