{"id":1676,"date":"2008-12-25T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2008-12-25T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T14:10:09","slug":"on-christmas-day-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/25\/on-christmas-day-in-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"On Christmas Day in the Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/boxshotxmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1677 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"boxshotxmas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/boxshotxmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/boxshotxmas.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/boxshotxmas-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>The GamerKids woke us up at 6am. We&#8217;d insisted their presents would disappear if they came out earlier. I put on the coffee, Linda put on her robe and fumbled for a camera, the kids\u00a0wore outrageous Christmas sweaters and were racing to the tree. The dog bounded along, excited but clueless. She got her bone filled stocking and we haven&#8217;t seen her since. So what&#8217;d the kids get? How did Linda and I (and the fat guy) make &#8217;em smile? And please, share your Christmas haul right here!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maggie got a homemade robe from her mother<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Hannah Montana Mr. Microphone (we have like 20 versions of SingStar, Sing It, and Karaoke Revolution &#8211; what was Santa thinking here?<\/p>\n<p>A makeup kit with body spray<\/p>\n<p>A cool skirt<\/p>\n<p>A Didj videogame system from Leap (it&#8217;s a handheld learning system good for 6-10) with a Hannah Montana Math game and a SpongeBob vocabulary game).<\/p>\n<p>DS Games: Looney Tunes Cartoon Conductor, Littlest Pet Shop Garden,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Henry did well too: a homemade robe from Mom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several drawing books and animal picture books<\/p>\n<p>A LEGO Spongebob set<\/p>\n<p>A Leapster 2 system with the Star Wars Math game<\/p>\n<p>DS Games: Mario Kart, Wall*e, Littlest Pet Shop Jungle.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOTH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Santa decided they had enough videogames from me so he brought them: Sorry and Battleship. Some books and a ton of chocolate candy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oh there was more but I&#8217;m too groggy to say. Linda and I were not supposed to exchange gifts. I wrote her a special poem and she got me some shirts and&#8230; get this&#8230; GUITAR HERO SWEATPANTS!\u00a0 Sweeeeet!<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas today. Play some games, sing some songs, laugh a lot and hug your kids. Kids are the reason for the season if you ask me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GamerKids woke us up at 6am. We&#8217;d insisted their presents would disappear if they came out earlier. I put on the coffee, Linda put on her robe and fumbled for a camera, the kids\u00a0wore outrageous Christmas sweaters and were racing to the tree. The dog bounded along, excited but clueless. She got her bone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}