Early Christmas Present

Grayson got an early Christmas present, mostly because Mommy and Daddy didn't want to put it together Christmas Eve and we also had a headache the first time around with the sink being broken and waiting for the store to finally take care of it and ship a new kitchen!  Grandma and Grandpa Campbell got Grayson a kitchen set this year for Christmas.  I already had dishes in storage for a kitchen set from my classroom in Washington while teaching Kindergarten. Now we just need to get some play food! :)  While this kitchen is very cute and sturdy.... it was a pain to put together!  There were so many small parts to it and the screws were headache to get in that I think we spent almost an hour and half with both us working on it to get it done!  It's done though and will never come apart again! :)  Whew!  We're leaving it by the tree for now and after Christmas it will find it's permanent spot in his playroom upstairs.  When he came downstairs the next morning he was beyond thrilled!  He immediately went to it and began checking it all out!  Later I grabbed the dishes from his playroom and brought them down.  It'll take some modeling to show him that the dishes are to "pretend play" with rather than just throwing all over the floor.  However, when he was playing with it this morning he was doing pretty well at pretending to cook and wash dishes.  I think he'll "play" more once we have play food as well.  He thought it was pretty fun to get Daddy a drink from the sink and bring it to him too and giggled when Daddy pretended to drink it.  :)  Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the Christmas present!  Even though Grandpa thinks it may be a "girly" present... Grayson loves it already!  I see us getting many years of use out of it!!