Severe Manipulation

And so it begins…

Jared tried to name him Santa Claus.

We vetoed that.  That’s hard to explain.  “Son, Santa Claus flew up to the North Pole to report back to Santa Claus about how many times you locked your brother in his room today.”  It confuses me just to say it.

He may be No Name for the rest of their childhood.

Day 1 turned out to be an epic fail.  Not one bit of manipulation on our children worked.  Jake got locked in his room, Jared did it.  Jake shoved his brother.  Jared climbed on the top of the Cozy Coupe and Jake pushed him through the house.

But Jared manipulated me in Target to get him a set of Thomas the Train undies.  And 2 $1 toys.  But then I sneaked the toys out of the cart before we got to the check stand.  Didn’t want to overindulge the child 3 weeks before Christmas.  That’s just silly. 

We have 23 more days of this.  Let’s see how bad I blow my Christmas budget on these little munchkins.