Trade-Off

I'm a little embarrassed to say that my 2 1/2 year old still has a plug...binkie...pacifier...whatever you call them.  So I cut him a deal this past month.  I told him that Santa would probably trade him his plug for something he wanted.  He decided that he wanted a blue truck.  So we talked it up big-time during the month of December.

Come Christmas Eve, he went and hung his plug on the tree, confident that "Caws" would trade him for a blue truck.

Well, Santa came through...sort of.  It was a red truck, but he didn't seem to mind.  And, he hasn't had the plug since. 

Ok.....well, there was that one time in the car, but that was more for my sanity than anything else.  And, he was half asleep so he probably thought he was dreaming.

Anyway!  Here's the layout to commemorate the night Santa came through:
 
Products used: Katie Pertiet's Stamped Blocks Mask & Simply Bloom Paper; Lynn Grieveson's Glitter Stitches; Fonts are Tw Cen MT & VNI-HLThuphap

Love that plug hanging off the tree!  We may have to make that a permanent ornament for next year.

And a couple of other layouts I've managed to do in-between sibling boxing matches in my living room:

 
Products used: Katie Pertiet's Curled Frame Plain White, Buttoned Up Clear Top, & Yarn Swirls Staple; Mindy Terasawa's Colorful Christmas Kit: Papers, Ribbon, Journal Box, Alpha, & Snowflake Stickers; Font:SP You've Got Mail

 
Products used: Katie Pertiet's Chipboard Tags No.1 (& staple), Grunge Overlay Inked, Tyler Estate Gold Paper, & Ink Brush; Lynn Grieveson's In-Distress Paper & Crisp Paper; Ali Edwards Quote & Christmas Word Art

 
Products used: Katie Pertiet's PhotoBooth Frame Sampler, Curled Frame Plain White, Cabana White Paper, Christmas Carol Snips, & Floral Edgers No. 2; Font is Adler

Working on finishing up a few other layouts, hopefully before I have to go back to my real job.  AUGH!

Comments

[northern sister]

You can't use the plug for an ornament for 10 or 15 years. He will think Santa forgot to take it and will be questioning why.

Do you know how many little teeth wrapped in Kleenex I have in the bottom of my underwear drawer? I don't know either but I never know what to do with them and the youngest still believes in the tooth fairy. So I leave them there and some day, when I'm in the home and my children are sorting through my things, they will find little baggies with tissue marked with their name and a date and their little teeth.

Motherhood makes you do the strangest things!