Show and Tell

Yesterday was show and tell day at daycare. The assignment was to bring something related to Christmas. Grant chose to bring a little stuffed reindeer and a jingle ball. Joel chose to bring his largest wrapped present from underneath the tree...

When we discouraged that, he settled on a much smaller wrapped present below, but still insisted on bringing an wrapped present for show and tell... not terribly exciting for the other kids, and we explained and explained that we couldn't opent it, but he would get to open it later that night when we celebrated our little family Christmas. So, he was off to daycare with an wrapped present for show and tell...

I've always that thought that Joel had a fair amount of patience for his age, but I was still pretty impressed when the present he has with him all day and held in his lap for th 10 minute ride to and from daycare, only had the few minor tears and damages when he brought it home at the end of the day.

And yes, he finally did get to open the present last night at our family Christmas (I will post more pics from that soon), so you can see what was in this beloved present above.