Advent 2025: Day 5, Kirwan Mahoney and Noah Conrad

 

Kirwan Mahoney: As I live and breathe, Noah Conrad!

Noah Conrad: Hmmph.

Kirwan: Whatever got you out of your woodshop dungeon?

Noah: Oh, hush.  Let's get this over with.

Kirwan: Ready when you are, Scrooge.

Kirwan: And don't look at me like that.  I'll be good.

Holly Belle made me sign a contract that I would not hide pieces, swap pieces,

or in any other way disrupt the Advent Calendar.

Noah: Hah!  Good for her.

Noah: There's the door, right in the center.

Can you reach it?

Kirwan: Oh ho!  What do we have here?

Noah: It looks like Daddy John in an ugly Christmas sweater.

Kirwan: Actually, he looks rather sharp.

Kirwan: But your mention of an ugly sweater gives me 

a fabulous idea for a Christmas present for you.

Noah: >Sigh< Please don't.

Kirwan: We'll put Dad and his camera right here in the middle;

ready to take photos of all the Christmas activities.

Advent 2025: Day 4, Paul David and Serena

 

Serena: Boy, have I been ready for this.

I haven't had a turn for three years!

Paul David: Oh? Why's that?

Serena: Last time it was my turn, I had to get up on the table.

I stomped around like I was Godzilla and Holly Belle was not amused.

Paul David: Ah, say no more.

Serena: There's the door, up by that helicopter.

Paul David: I've got the prize.  And Tokyo is spared destruction.

Serena: Oh, this is exciting!

I think I know what it is!

Paul David: It's a scooter!

Serena: Just waiting for the right little Lego person to come ride it.

Advent 2025: Day 3, Lydia and Alice

 

Lydia: Well, Alice, ready for our turn?

Alice: I don't know.  What if we can't put the pieces together?

Lydia: It'll be a snap.

Snap.  Get it? They're Legos?  They snap together?

 >Sigh< Oh, come on, let's find our door.

Alice: Oh dear, the door is up so high!

Lydia: Good thing we 'No Navels' have such long, graceful arms.

Lydia: I got it out, you can put it together.

Alice: Oh dear.

Alice: Oh! A cute little teddy bear on a table!

You were right, it was a snap!

Lydia: Now she gets it.  >Sigh<

Lydia: We'll put Mr. Teddy here, and he can

watch over the living room.

Advent 2025: Day 2, Miguel and Sasha

 

Miguel: I thought we were opening the calendar outside?

Sasha: A chance to show off our snazzy new parka vests.

Miguel: No matter.  We are still the most guapo of Gregoropolis!

Sasha: True story.

Miguel: Here is our little door, right in the middle 

of the moonlight scene.

Sasha: I wonder what that could be?

Miguel: We will know once we put it together...

Sasha: ...and away we go!

Sasha: It's a snowplow! Oh yeah, we rock!

Miguel: And on the first try!

Miguel: We'll put it on the train tracks around the Christmas tree.

Sasha: There's no snow there.

Miguel: Then he has done his job well.

Sasha: Ha-ha-ha-ha!

Sasha: We can put the extra pieces in this mixing bowl from the kitchen.

Miguel: Won't Uli get upset that we took it?

Sasha: Aw, she'll never notice.

Famous last words...

Uli: Vhere ist mein good mixing bowl?!

Advent 2025: Day 1, Diego Luis and Jessica

 It's Advent season again and the kids are lining up to open their calendar.  We've once again gone with Lego: The City as it is Holly Belle Approved™...

Jessica: Hola, Diego Luis!

Diego Luis: Hola, you are Jessica, no?

Jessica: No.  Wait, I mean sí.  Yes, my name is Jessica.

Diego: Ay, bueno.  I was worried you might be the bossy girl.

Jessica: Bossy--?  Oh, you mean Holly Belle!  

Diego: Oh, yes, that is the one.  Shall we, señorita?

Jessica: We shall.  And there's the door to our prize!

Diego: It looks like a little muchacho de oso?

Jessica: And he has a little popsicle!

He looks like Max from Where The Wild Things Are.

Diego: I do not know that story.

Jessica: Really?  It's great--even better when someone reads it to you.

You should ask Santa Claus for the book for Christmas!

Diego: Hmm, have I been good enough for Papá Noel this year?

Jessica: We'll put Max here, just outside the house.

Diego: His oso polar suit will keep him warm.

Postcards from South Dakota, Part 2

 Diego Luis is reading his way through the postcards Chance Victor has sent him...

"The next day we went a really cool place--"

"--Dinosaur Park!  It was so cool!"

"I got to ride a Stegosaurus!"

Chance Victor: Thank you, sir!

"But I did almost get eaten by a Dimetrodon.  As if the burros weren't bad enough.

Tomorrow we're going to Reptile Gardens to see all sorts of creepy-crawlies."

Diego Luis: Reptile Gardens?!  I don't think I want to read this postcard.

Some snakes might have hitched a ride on it and are in the house!

"Besides all the snakes and gators and stuff they had a prairie dog town.

You could even go down and look at it up close from a little bubble in the middle of it."

"Then we went to Mount Rushmore.  There weren't very many 

other tourists there, but I really liked the carving of the presidents."

Diego Luis: >Sigh< When does Chance come home?  

I wonder if he got me any souvenirs?

"I wish you were here with me--we'd have so much fun!

I'll be home soon and have some presents for you!

Your friend, Chance"

Postcards from South Dakota, Part 1

 Diego Luis has just returned from the mailbox and discovered a stack of postcards all addressed to him!  They are from his BFF Chance Victor, who is on vacation in South Dakota...

"Dear Diego, we made it safe to South Dakota and have been 

on the go since Day 1!  Our first stop was the famous Wall Drug."

"Daddy John called it a tourist trap, but I think he secretly liked it.

I met some interesting people there..."

Chance Victor: Pappy says if I give him 50 cents, he'll tell me

where the lost gold mine is!

Chance Victor: Oh! Hello, er, gosh, um, my goodness, aren't you cold?

"I even got to ride a jackalope!"

"After Wall Drug, we drove through Badlands National Park."

"The landscape is just beautiful and a little bizarre."

"Further along we came across some feral burros.  

Auntie 'Chell wanted to pet them!  Can you imagine?!

I stayed in the car."

Chance Victor's South Dakota adventures conclude next week!