I often try to avoid #Amazon, but this time, I ordered from there. One of the things I dislike about Amazon is when I order items for multiple children in the same house, and they spread the delivery over a month's time. It's really a lot easier if everyone gets their stuff at the same time, even if they have to collect everything at one warehouse (ship it to that warehouse) and then ship it all together to the customer.
In this case, besides my order, #sonOne purchased clothing and shoes for #Little_Girl_A3. All of her things have arrived already, but for the boys, only a pair of t-shirts have arrived. The rest will arrive in (what looks like) 4 more shipments between now and the end of November.
I still haven't ordered their shoes. And I don't know whether #sonTwo ordered their socks yet.
#Daddy_A sent a photo of the happiest little girl I've ever seen in my life. #Little_Girl_A3 received her two baby dolls for her 3rd birthday. I think that's easily the best $20 I ever spent.
I'm told that #Little_Boy_A2 was also happy with his birthday gift, but no photo was sent.
Likewise, I bought the $20 Nintendo Mario “diorama” kit for #Little_Boy_A2’s birthday instead of the $40 remote control race car. He’s turning 4.
Plus, since their birthdays are about a week apart, they’re always going to have to accept less expensive presents than their older brother (however, in February, people are still paying off Christmas spending, so he too may have to learn to accept less expensive gifts.
We have some November and December birthdays in the family, and we typically celebrate half-birthdays for those people. Though in their cases, it isn’t the price, but having one’s special day get lost in the glow around another special day.
The kids don't see me enough, even by video. The middle child ( #Little_Boy_A2, almost 4 ) made sure to stay outside of hugging range, but the other kids ( #Little_Boy_A, age 7; and #Little_Girl_A3, almost 3 ) got some hugs.
We talked about upcoming birthday gifts, A2's toy airplane and upcoming preschool, A's upcoming school year, and A3's expanding vocabulary.
I used to watch the original Power Rangers and Power Rangers Turbo with #sonTwo and his friends. I got to see some episodes of Power Rangers in Space with my nephews. I'd like to sit down with #GS3 and #Little_Boy_A / #Little_Boy_A2 / #Little_Girl_A3 and binge watch the first few seasons ... if they can watch without karate chopping one another.
The two older boys have some professional use for the devices along with being the family Plex server. #Daddy_A does not. He’s probably going to be off for at least three more years (until #Little_Girl_A3 is in first grade), assuming the next back surgery goes well.
The DS220j is probably a step down from the DS218 model that I bought for #sonOne, but the $80 price difference might be the difference between “look what our Dad sent me” and “why am I the only one that didn’t get one?”.
Will have to look for something for #Little_Boy_A on Saturday. They all have coloring books and scribble pads, but his siblings each have one other item (plane for #Little_Boy_A2, stickers for #Little_Girl_A3).
He didn't even object when I congratulated him for being 75. (This is how it works: 6 + 1 = 7, but that one has to come from somewhere, right? So you take it from the 6 and end up with 5.)
His younger sister ( #Little_Girl_A3, age 2 ) took the phone to tell me something, but I did not understand a word of it.
According to my granddaughter #Little_Girl_A3, her uncle ( #sonTwo ) is older than I am. She tries to celebrate his birthday every day since the actual birthday (months ago). #Cute.