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"Dennis, are you ready for bed? Do you need to brush your teeth or go potty?". "I already brushed my teeth and in the middle of brushing my teeth, I went potty. I was brushing my teeth and I stopped to go pee-pee and then I finished brushing my teeth." So now that he's done that, he's ready for bed. We just finished watching The Santa Clause 2, having watched the first one recently and discovering that Dennis loved it. He loved the second one as well, but I had to periodically pause the movie to answer random Christmas related questions (i.e. "Why was Rudolph born after the other reindeer?).

He's very excited about Christmas. Extremely excited. He wears Santa pajamas to bed every night. He wore an elf hat today when we took Uncle Denny's toy donation to the police station to add to the other donated toys beneath their tree. He asked about whether kids in Africa needed toys, too, because he knows our church has been working hard to raise money to build two wells in a village in Zambia so that the people will have access to clean drinking water. We've been hearing about it, about the village that our church has personally sponsored, watching the videos they've sent to us, all coordinated by a missionary who visited us months back and who is now there in Africa organizing the well project in many villages. Today I learned that we reached our goal, raised $11,000 plus some, and Dennis and I were so elated to learn that our church will help save many lives this way. But he thinks we need to send toys to the village children as well. He says toys are almost as important as food and water and shelter.