My little Christmas helpers are sooo… umm… helpful?

Today Ivy was wrapping the present she made for Clara.  Since Ivy has never wrapped anything before I was helping her out. This in itself was sort of a dubious plan. I’m a really bad present wrapper. If you get a nice looking wrapped gift from us it came from John.  Nevertheless we were trying.  We cleared a space on the floor, pulled out the paper, tape and scissors and in a flurry of questions we got to work.  As we unrolled a brand new roll of wrapping paper, (and because if you wait until the 22nd to buy wrapping paper you can get it on sale and get the fancy kind with the squares on the back that you never otherwise would have bought) Ivy stared at all the squares rolling out before her and said:

“MOM, IT LOOKS JUST LIKE A MAP! … Now, Lets see where we live.”

Then we spent a few minutes  finding our imaginary house and all our friends and relatives imaginary houses on an imaginary map.  Ivy couldn’t understand why I was laughing and why on earth I wanted to get back to wrapping a gift when we were having so much fun with our map.

Helpful may not be precisely the word for my Christmas helpers but between Ivy’s involvement in everything, Clara’s tree un-decorating and shooting Rudolph (While I admit to disliking Rudolph it wasn’t my idea. Ivy  suggested the activity and when I questioned it I was told  “He’s a deer”. Hard to argue with such logic… ) it’s been quite a time around here!

We’ve got maps on the wrapping paper and we ate an imaginary Rudolph dinner.

Picture by Ivy!

Yup, Christmas prep. is much more interesting than it used to be, I wonder how I got along without my helpers?!