Not interested

A few weeks ago we were toying with the idea of putting up the Christmas tree or not. Our main worry was Lucas bringing down the tree and hurt himself. Then, when we were at shopping malls, Lucas was all excited about the Christmas deco. Pointing his tiny finger at the ornaments and said 'ball'. That was what prompted us to decide so swiftly. Now that our tree is up, he is not interested at all, which is good for us - not worry that he will bring the tree down; and sad cause we wanted him to enjoy looking at the tree like when he is in the mall. I was planning to get him some gifts so that he can have some fun unwrapping presents, and now I am having my second thought.
This month also saw us breaking a number of rules. We minimise Lucas's intake of sugar, salt,spice and oily food. But these few days, we allowed him to have a small piece of chocolate every day. Dominic got Lucas an advent calendar. Advent is an European tradition where children get small gift everyday in December leading to Christmas day. Most Advent calendar has a window for everyday in December and a picture of an ice-cream, candy, lollipop etc. The Advent calendar Dominic got has windows that open to real chocolate. And since it is Christmas, we do not want to deprive Lucas. We just decided to allow Lucas to have some adult food on Christmas day with us. It will not be memorable for him and us if Christmas day is just another ordinary day.
Christmas eve is usually spent at my in-laws' place. We had our dinner there and then had our presents open. Christmas day itself is a quiet day for us. We get to relax at home. This year we are cooking roast duck with red cabbage. I had to google the recipe and prepared our shopping list. Hmmm..can't wait...