Christmas in July

This morning we had Douglas Fir, the singing Christmas to wake us up.  Why?  It was Christmas in July!  Today is July 25th, so we therefore did a little surprise for Madison.  We brought the tree up and hooked it into some Christmas music, and got our Christmas hats on.  We even had a few cheap presents wrapped up - a coloring book, and some magnets with words on them to spell out sentences on the refrigerator.

Madison was quite surprised - this of course was completely illogical.  We had some Christmas music playing for a bit this morning, but soon it was time to get down to business:  we had some shopping to do today, and Daddy had work of course.  Madison and Mommy finished up the back-to-school shopping, and did some grocery shopping as well.  Daddy was at work, preparing for the weekend's service, and working on some more elements for the "Under the Sea" series that is coming up.  Have we shared any graphics for that with you yet?

We've been plotting out a storyline to cover the weeks, and working on videos to make as well.  There is so much to do, and such a short time to do it in.  But that's how we work around here at KidPak!

Tonight Daddy got with Madison, and Mommy and we had ourselves a big taco dinner, which is coincidental, as we're making a taco truck tomorrow morning at Lowe's.  Afterwards, we played an old game that Madison got for Christmas in July - "Toy Story 3."  The fact that this one came before "Disney Infinity," made by the same people, is fairly obvious once you play the game.  That said, Madison enjoyed it greatly.  We hadn't plugged in a game for a few weeks now, so a little gaming was overdue for us!

But don't worry - we had our literary fix tonight before bed.  Daddy read a little more of the Bible tonight before bedtime, but he also read a bit of the the free book that Madison got from Border's the other week:  "The Never Girls."  This continues the theme of Neverland, which has been on repeat lately for sure.  The other night, Madison watched "Hook" for the first time, this after watching the two Disney movies of the same name.  And then there's Jake and the Neverland Pirates, and the Tinkerbell movies... plus our hearing the "Star Catchers" books.  Lots of Neverland going on.  This new book Daddy was reading to Madison was fairly simple at the start, and connects to the Disney Fairies series we were reading earlier, where the fairy Prilla has a significant part.

Daddy brought up the idea of doing a Neverland series at KidPak with Madison, and she brightened up quite a bit.  Maybe that's something we do down the road?  Until then, we'll all be visiting Neverland now... in our dreams...