Gifts

While I wanted to open the gifts right after the party, we decided to wait until Sunday morning to open them together with Ivan (although I knew that I would care more about the gifts than he would). Which was precisely what happened.

While we had tidied up the house the night before, we left the sweeping and vacuuming for Sunday morning, which we did before opening the gifts.

We left the vacuum cleaner out, Mr. Meh's favorite toy. So while we were opening the gifts, Ivan proceeded to play with the vacuum cleaner and its wire. He also found on the floor one of the empty water bottles that I had drank earlier in the day. We bought water bottles for the party; we usually don't have them in the house. We'll he was all about the water bottle for a while before he returned to the vacuum cleaner -- all of this while Andy and I are opening the gifts.

Ivan got lots of cool stuff, but I must say I was quite surprised that this was quite a literary crowd -- most of the presents he got were books. A few toys (plastic toys with batteries), a couple of stuffed animals, several packages of different wooden blocks, and a few pieces of clothing....but it was all mostly books. Oddly enough only two of the books were duplicates. Who knew that the infant book selection is so diverse.

I found it quite unusual to so many people got books. Who knows maybe everyone assumed that everyone else was going to buy toys and clothes so they decided to buy books. Or maybe it was the easiest thing to do -- go to a Borders and pick up a few books. Who knows.

But in any case the books are really cool, so I'm looking fo