Monday, August 14, 2006

Celebrating Early...

Thing Two is celebrating his birthday later in the week. Today a package arrived from MI, courtesy Auntie Laura and family. I KNEW what was in it so I figured he'd enjoy the treat of opening his packages early. Not to mention, the package arrived after he'd gotten home from school and I knew I didn't have the stamina to deal with the pleas of "can I open it now? How about now" for the next 5 days.

Sure enough, he opened his big box and first found two cards. "I must be extra special because I got two cards" (One was actually a gift receipt in an envelope, but I hated to burst his special bubble). Next, he takes off the wrapping paper and sighs a "What The?/HUH?" and commented on the fact that the present was in a shoe box. He said "they sent me shoes?" with a real tone of worry to is voice that perhaps he really was getting shoes (for the record, neither Thing has much interest in footwear). Finally, he opened the box and discovered a CD player, just like his brother had gotten earlier in the summer. A second package had also arrived over the weekend and I decided to let him open that as well. It too met with his approval. Something like a big YAHOO, MY FAVORITE were his exact words. It was the soundtrack from Rugrats in Paris, his FAVORITE movie these days.

When Hubby got home, he asked Thing Two "I wonder how they knew that was your favorite? Do you suppose Auntie Laura is psychic?"

In true Thing Two fashion, he replied "Nope, I think she's a gypsy!"

Thanks Gypsy Laura, ya done good! (and of course, he remains clueless to the reality that there is a spy here in the House of Chang)

3 comments:

agent713 said...

Love the reaction to the shoebox. We gave my grandmother some figurines for Christmas one year. We put them in an empty tea box for wrapping. She was SO excited to be getting tea and a little disappointed when she realized that's not what it was. So sad. LOL

Happy b-day Thing 2 :D

~Heidi

Anonymous said...

Wow, Auntie Gypsy was able to pull a joke on the King of Jokers, huh! Glad to hear he is enjoying his gift. Happy Birthday, "Darryl".

tz said...

Once my aunt wrapped some mugs in a christmas light box...well it was two years before we needed some christmas lights and color us surprised when we opened those boxes while decorating our tree.....