The Ghost of Christmas Present

Here she is the Ghost of Christmas Present - come in, and know her better, man! Mommy wrapped up a big box tonight and made this costume for our "Christmas Present." Hopefully, I don't have to explain the joke to you. Mommy thought it up about three weeks ago, although shortly after that we saw the Jetson's Christmas Carol and were laughing because their Ghost of Christmas Present was also literally a present. Yes, that's an obscure version. Initially, we were going to go with the whole look of Father Christmas, but this large gift-wrapped box is much more amusing.

We've kept our pace filling out Christmas cards, marking the time by doing our advent calendar and the Christmas chain: the big day is drawing closer and closer! A highlight of our day has been our evenings together by the tree, watching some Christmas movie.

Today when Daddy got home, he was shown a whole bunch of illustrations that Madison did. She took a lot of post-it notes and drew a story on them - her first illustrated novel, I suppose. The stars of this book? Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood, of course. What's funny is that there are a couple post-its that illustrate both of these characters running for their lives, chased by a giant ball. Madison explained all of this in great detail when Daddy got home.