RAPPING or WRAPPING

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Last night Judy and I were at Niki and Greg’s. Judy helped Niki wrap Christmas gifts while I distracted Alexa and Gavin.
By the way, Niki is huge with child. Gracie or whatever her name is couldn’t come too soon to suit the mother.
Niki had made Lion House recipe chicken noodle soup. Good stuff!
Alexa ended up helping with the wrapping of the things that aren’t from Santa. Mostly taking them from the home office into the living room and putting them under the Christmas tree.
At one point Niki was complaining about being tired. Judy said that she was tired too.
Alexa said, “Mom, you go to bed. Grandma, go home. I can wrap the rest of the presents.”
I guess someone asked her if she knew how to wrap presents. She said, “Yes, you cut paper, wrap it around the present, put some tape on it and put a bow on it.”
It would interesting to see a five year old do it on her own and have it turn out looking nice.
At least she’s thinking.

Greg had gotten into his grubbies ready to paint the toy room upstairs in preparation for it being Alexa’s room so the new baby can have Alexa’s old one. He had no sooner gotten ready when Scott, a neighbor called saying he had an extra ticket to the University of Utah basketball game and invited him to go with him.
I don’t know how much of good time he had; the Utes got killed; again; this time by Cal State Fullerton. They have the worst record in school history.
(BYU again blew out their opponent [Weber State]. BYU and Utah play each other Saturday if I remember correctly.)

Gavin and I played and had a good time. He has a red plastic toy camera and he was pretending to take pictures of me. He kept telling me to say cheese, pushing the button then handing me the cheese. When you push the shutter button a little piece of plastic cheese pops up. After a while he announced, “I’m going to take (the camera) into my workshop and fix it.” He left the room for a minute then came back and told me that it was fixed.
Later we were in the toy room upstairs playing “library.” He told me we had to be quiet in the library. He got a couple of books and turned the pages. Then he said, “Those (imaginary) kids are being bad. I’m going to take their book away from them.”
He walked across the room, picked a book up off the floor and put it up on a shelf.
I wonder if they have a library in his preschool.

In all fairness to the Utes I am adding what Wikipedia has to say about the Utes.
1. Utah Utes men's basketball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Utes_men's_basketball
The University of Utah Utes have consistently been one of the most successful basketball programs in the NCAA.