Frankie's Christmas

It was so hard putting up the Christmas decorations this year. When nobody is watching Frankie, he would be up the window trying to take them off. We had the Christmas tree up in the living room, but he just loved pulling the plug and plugging it back in. I couldn't concentrate at work because I was too afraid that he will get electricuted. We have the switch off on that one plug he likes to play though but still I got worried. We even have those safety plugs but even that did not wok because he knew how to take them off. So to keep me from worrying all the time, I transferred the big tree in his room. It fit in there alright, but it was taking most of his space. I wanted it there because I could monitor Frankie, and I will be there with him when he is in his room.

This is the first Christmas that Frankie actually had a little concept about everything. He knew about Christmas and some Christmas songs. He already knew about mama Meye (Mary) and Papa Pesus (Jesus) and most of all he knew who santa was. He had one stocking that he hanged on his doorknob in his room and every night santa always stops by and leave him something everyday until Christmas eve. So everytime he gets up in the morning, before going anywhere else or greet his tatay good morning, he checked it first. You should have seen the look on his face every time he got something from santa. He was being a good boy, so he was rewarded by santa.

Santa this year was a little generous to Frankie. As he figured, he is his only boy, hence he should get more presents. I, on the other hand, just went with the flow. I know that whatever Frankie gets he will be happy with it. Papa helped santa wrapped all the presents. I was so thankfully for that because it was quiet a few. On Christmas eve, I woke Frankie up and told him that santa had left quiet a few presents for him. He didn't want to get up, but I picked him up anyway because I was so excited for him. I couldn't wait to see him open his presents and see the reaction on his face.

My video camera was acting up, so I was not able to record him right away. When he opened the clock, he was so contended and didn't want to open the other ones. I have to remind him over and over again that those were his too. Excuse the video because it was dark and shaky because Frankie kept moving.



I can't believe how much our little Frankie had grown, and we are all looking forward spending the rest of our lives with him.