"What did you get for Christmas?"

The gym was closed for a couple of weeks over the holidays, so when my 3 & 4 year olds came in for their first class of the new year, they had lots of exciting things to tell me.
"I got a play kitchen."
"I got a stuffed horsie"
"I got a care bear movie"
Aw, isn't that sweet.
The most popular gift that I heard about was quite possibly the most unusual. 3 out of my 15 little girls said they got a doll that goes potty. GROSS! I mean seriously, I can't imagine wanting to change a diaper. There are, however, so many little girls out there that find the act so exciting that the "doll that goes potty" was a best-seller this Christmas, at least according to my statistics. One of my girls that got this said doll for Christmas proceeded to repeatedly grab her crotch when she described how the doll worked. Lovely.

We usually do a prayer theme with the kids at the beginning of class, so I decided to ask them if they learned anything about why we celebrate Christmas in Sunday School.
"I didn't go to school on Christmas"
"No, Sunday School," I said, "like the little class you go to at church."
"My school was closed."
"Yeah, we got to stay home from school for 2 whole weeks!"
"But did you go to church?" I asked.
"Yeah, we went to church!"
"Well did you go to Sunday School?" I asked, determined to get a quality answer.
"I go to preschool. And next year when I'm 5 I'll be in Kindergarten"
"Well can somebody tell me why we celebrate Christmas?...it's somebody's birthday," I prodded.
"Birthday cake!" Yelled one of my students
"Ooooh, birthday cake is my favorite food!" I joined in...
...and we digressed from there.
Well, at least I tried, right? The kids were so hyped up with pent-up energy that it was all I could do to keep them from just running in circles the whole class.
It was an exhausting morning...and one I won't soon forget :)