Is it equal?

After reading this post: (editing to say that I have no idea how to use that trackback thing, but it was about Santa, have you heard about babybunching) over on Baby Bunching, I thought more about this whole equality thing for Christmas.

When I was shopping, it was so much easier to find things for Bear, imagining his excitement on Christmas morning. Monkey will just be concerned with quantity and moving on to the next gift.

If you look at the piles of gifts, it does seem like Bear got the best end of the deal, getting more than Monkey.

But, we already had Christmas at Grammy and Papa's house and I think Monkey's gifts outnumbered Bears at least 2 to 1, if not 3 to 1.

Grandma sent a box full of presents that we will open on Christmas Day. But, I've looked in there...it's like Monkey is an only child and Bear and Cub are some cousins or something that she threw in a token present or two for.

While Cub, at 7 months(today!), doesn't care and just wants to eat as much of the wrapping paper as he can before we stop him, and Bear will be excited for anything that he gets, I care.

I care that Monkey gets spoiled rotten by the grandparents and the other two are afterthoughts. Bear would be content if we just got him one toy that he didn't have to share with his brother. He would jump up and down and clap; he'd get so excited that he would shake. But, it's not right. Monkey could have a million presents and he would still be disappointed when he stopped having new things to open.

So, Santa set out to make things a little more fair by getting a few more presents for Bear than for Monkey.