Christmas Morning

Today was the big day! My daughter, Alexia, opened all her gifts save two. Pleo from Santa and a corn snake from me. Pleo's box was hiding behind the tree, standing vertically, in hopes she may not be suspicious. She wasn't. She thought it might be Roboreptile she said later. So she drags it over and the camera is rolling (video to be posted very soon!). She ripped open a corner and likely saw the logo or Pleo's face on the box and she screamed "IT'S A PLEO! YES YES YES!" and she started jumping up and down, screaming this and then she suddenly stopped jumping, covered her face with both hands and started to cry. I asked her why she was crying and she said, "It's just so cool!". After she took a deep breathe she stopped crying (by this time, I was ready to cry and my mom was crying) and she ripped off the rest of the wrapping paper. Then she opened the box. I stopped her from continuing to open it so she could open my gift, a corn snake. She was really happy to see that too. But when I asked her, "Which do you like better? Pleo or the corn snake?" She said, Pleo. Pleo trumps everything, LOL Before all this, she opened a gift that had a hand-knitted doll blanket and one for her size. One of my customers makes them. I saw her just a few weeks ago and loved the knitted bird cage cover she had. I asked her if she did commissions. She said she did and asked if I needed it by Christmas. At the time, Christmas was 2 weeks aways, I am not going to bother someone to make me a doll blanket that soon before Christmas, so I told her after was fine. She called me at work yesterday and said she had the doll blanket done and also made a jacket for the doll (I never told her it was for a Pleo, lol) and a blanket for my daughter. I told her I didn't have any money to give her, she told me to buy her some yarn next week and brought them in. They are gorgeous! I will post pictures of our Pleo and his blanket soon. We turned Pleo on and watched him hatch. He is just too adorable. When he took his first steps, he lifted his back leg, I swear he was urinating. A little later he lifted one back foot and one front foot and said Tada! And on his second charge, he seems to be getting use to his legs. He kept lifting one leg at a time and then two legs at once. At one point he lifted both legs on one side and fell over with a scream. I picked him up and he was all right. The dogs and cats don't seem to care about him at all. But Pleo took a deep interest in Sqwakers McCaw. The bird was singing and Pleo is digging it. Lifting his legs up, I guess dancing. Sometimes he lifted a front and back foot at once, on opposite sides. At one point, he lifted both his back and front left feet and fell over. He cried and I picked him up and reassured him, but after that, he blamed McCaw for his fall and refused to be bothered by the bird any longer. Tonight he joined us at the movie theater, we saw Water Horse. He slept through the whole thing of course. But it helped Alexia find a name for him. Crusoe. I think it fits him well. Right now, he is sleeping in my bedroom, my daughter made a bed for him using a towel and his baby blanket. I just want to say how happy I am with Ugobe and Pleo. And how special they made my daughter's Christmas. I am a single mom and some years are better than others when it comes to what I can afford. Alexia said this is her best Christmas ever, and I have to agree on that. This is my best Christmas ever. To watch how happy she was. She's never been THAT happy with any gift she's got. And she's got a lot of gifts. Puppies, kittens, a computer, video game systems...no gift ever made her have tears of joy. I am so glad we have Crusoe!

Posted December 25 at 23:19 PM