Any frogs in there, Shane?
Grandpa took Shane and I to look at a big train set up in Richmond Christmas Eve.
Grandma and Carrie stayed home to work on travel and home planning (business and pleasure can blur for those two).
The train display was at a store called The Green House.
Shane smoothly transitioned from looking at trains to looking at cacti.
Grandpa and I followed.
Notice Shane's talking in both photos? He likes to talk about stuff he knows, so maybe he'll be a professor one day.
What Shane really loves are the carnivorous plants. There were Venus flytraps AND pitcher plants. I thought the flytraps would get more love, but the pitcher plants got top marks. They're not limited to one fly per trap. According to Shane, you can fill them up to brim!
We at lunch at Costco and picked up an apple pie (A redemption pie! The pie Grandpa picked out didn't pass the ladies' taste test last night!).
We had ham for dinner and everyone watched Wall-E. Grandpa went to mass at his church and then Grandpa, Shane, and I went to the candlelight service at the church Carrie found (She was feeling sick and stayed home).
Grandma let Shane open up a single present when we got back. He picked a nice big one.
The box contained a surprise! A smaller box and a lesson!
Shane got to decorate the tree with his personal minion!
Learning how to deal with a surprise, unmet expectations, and show patience was great. Practicing being happy with what you got in spite of all that was even better (and I think he mostly got there!).
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