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Christmas

Age: 2 years + 24 days

Jack didn't need his walker or his dummy any more as he was pretty good at walking and had all his milk teeth. He toddled into the living room where a massive tree stood next to Anna and Jonathan who were opening boxes of decorations, "You want to decorate the tree?" asked Anna. "I wan tree," replied Jack, Jonathan put a box of decorations on the floor for Jack. Jack picked up a gold ball and hung it on one of the lower branches of the tree, he repeated this until the all of the decorations were used up. The tree had been fully decorated except the very top, Anna handed him an Angel and Jonathan picked him up so he could put it on the top. When the tree was done Anna put away the boxes and took out another, but this one had fake holly that Jonathan wrapped around the stair banister. It also had rolls of Christmas paper and ribbons, and at the very bottom there was a red and white stocking. Anna picked up the stocking and led Jack out of the room, up the stairs and into his blue room. Anna hung the stocking on the end of his cot and got him ready for bed in his footie pajamas and gave him warm milk in while she read him a story about Santa.

Somewhere in the North Pole the guardians were seeing North off, they had all put in an extra present each. North only had one sack left, and it was full of Jacks presents. North swung the sack over his shoulder and jumped down the chimney, he saw the milk, cookie and multiple carrots. He gobbled up the cookie and drank the milk, he left the bigger presents under the tree before bounding up the stairs. He stopped at a door that read 'Jack's room' on a plaque before quietly opening it, he saw little Jack curled up into a tight ball under the covers with his tiny thumb shoved in his mouth. He put the small presents into the quickly overflowing stocking. He picked up the carrots and fed them to his reindeer before flying back to the workshop.

Jack awoke the next morning and pulled himself up by the bars of his cot before seeing the now filled stocking, "Anna, Jonat look! look!" he squealed bouncing up and down on his bed smiling. Anna and Jonathan walked into the room, both wearing their slippers and dressing gowns. Anna lifted him up and Jonathan carried his stocking into their room. He was set down on the bed and they climbed into bed with him in the middle, they gave him his stocking and he immediately started to open his presents. Once he had finished opening them he was carried down stairs, he ran over to the tree where presents had appeared over night. He opened one of the presents and found a set of paints for young children. In another he found a bathroom set for children. Another had a dream catcher. The last one had a plastic dinosaur set.

He was dressed and clean he went down stairs and played in the boxes and wrapping paper. Jonathan had the idea to make a box castle and crown with the new paints, so Anna found some old arts and crafts bits to make a crown out of. Jack and Anna sat down to make a kings crown at the table while Jonathan cut out a door and some windows. His crown had red, blue, yellow, purple and white dots of paint on it. When it had dried he put it on his head and crawled about his castle that was situated between the Christmas tree and the table. Once they had eaten and put Jack to bed they found almost all the wrapping paper and Christmas decorations under the table.