Early Christmas

This post looks long...but read until the end...you won't regret it! Well, you won't regret it that much.

On Monday my wife and daughter went on a school field trip to the State Fair. So that left my 4 year old son with me all day. Now I love having these daddy/son days...they're a lot of fun. In fact, I love having my daughter/daddy days too.

I decided it would be great to run some errands and do some early Christmas shopping for my wife. I know what you're thinking. It's only September and you're already shopping for your wife? Wow, either you're a great husband or a huge dork. I must admit, I'm probably a little bit of both. But I digress.

Anyway, I saw in the ads that morning that some of the stores may have this special gift I was wanting to buy my wonderful wife for Christmas. It is the type of gift that if you find it you need to buy it. You're not guaranteed to get it later. I was already a day behind since the ads were released on Sunday morning.

So my boy and me set out to look for this great present.

We stopped at Target first. We both love Target. He loves to walk up and down the toy isles letting me know what he needs. So after looking in the toy department we looked for this special gift for Crystal. And wouldn't you know it...they had one left. So we purchased the gift and headed out of the store.

Now, I needed to head to Best Buy to buy a new cell phone case so that was our next stop. My son loves playing the video games at Best Buy so we had to stop over at the Wii so he could play Mario Kart. (Even though we have a Wii and Mario Kart at home)

And wouldn't you know it...they had the gift there too! How could this be possible? It was my lucky day I guess. So I purchased the same gift at Best Buy knowing that I could get Reward points there. So if you're keeping track at home, now I have two of the same gifts.

So we head back to Target just an hour or so later to return the gift I had purchased there. But this isn't the funny part. Wait for it...here it comes.

On the way home from Target I tried to explain to my son that this was a Christmas present for mommy. I was going to hide it and he needed to help me keep the secret. But he just didn't agree. His plan was that we wrap the present when we get home and mommy could open it when she got home with Alexis.

Now, you try to reason with a 4 year old. Try to get them to keep a secret when they're super excited. So when we got home we pulled out the Christmas wrapping paper and we both wrapped this special gift. We put it by the fire place (since we don't have a tree up yet...it's only September) so mommy would see it when she got home.

Then it was time for our nap. I was hoping that he would forget about the present during his nap and I could still hide it from Crystal. But that just didn't happen. He woke up from his nap right before Crystal walked in the door and ran into the living room to make sure the present was still there. The minute he heard the garage door open he bolted for the door. When he opened the door he yelled out for Crystal that we had a special present for her. So much for the surprise.

She came in and I tried to explain to her what was going on. She just smiled. I tried to explain what was happening but it didn't seem to matter. All we heard was that it was time to open her Christmas present.

And she did. Want to know what it was? Watch the video below (Facebook users will need to click view original post to see the video)



Merry Christmas.