Guess I've gotten a bit off track. Has it really been over a month since I've added to my blog? So much has been going on. I just need to start from today and we'll see where we go. I expect much rambling...
Christmas is just two days away. We will be spending our first Christmas with "just us." Just our little family. We've always gone to my parents' house (and once to Doug's, in our now 10 Christmases together! Oops). How thankful am I, though, that we are NOT trying to get to DC with all the weather we've had in Colorado lately? You oughta see the drifts outside my house! So this is our first year to create more traditions and do our own thing. Bode is very excited about the presents aspect of things this year. He kind of gets the whole Santa Claus thing. I've spent some time playing with him and his Little People nativity scene. That certainly makes it easy to teach an almost-3-year old about Baby Jesus and the story of His birth. I've gotten some laughs out of our play together. Let's see if i can remember to quote him correctly. Here's one. This is what he said as Keegen (8 months old) was mouthing the Mary figure..."KEEEEE-GEN! Why are you eating Mary?!" Also relating to Mary, he said, "Jesus doesn't need his mommy. She can go next door." And in regards to one of the wisemen, who happens to be the character he knows as Sonya Lee from a Little People video..."She's not a wiseman, she's a wiseGIRL!" Hopefully through all of that he's learned something about Jesus??!
We had a great family night out tonight. We've spent a lot of time cooped up in the house lately due to the blizzard so it felt especially good. We went to Poor Richard's, this funky little place in downtown CS. It's a combination pizza place, toy store, used bookstore, wine/coffee/chocolate bar (ooh ya!) and gift shop. I love it. The pizza is great and the salad is better. And better yet, there's a great little play area in the back that Bode loves. So Doug and i actually got to eat in peace and it ALMOST felt like a date. On the way back to the car, one of the many old churches was playing carols from their belltower (not really a carillon, i think it was just a few bells...what's the difference?) We checked out the Christmas lights on the way home, one of Bode's favorite things to do of late. A very lovely evening. Maybe a new tradition for Christmas Eve Eve?
Christmas is just two days away. We will be spending our first Christmas with "just us." Just our little family. We've always gone to my parents' house (and once to Doug's, in our now 10 Christmases together! Oops). How thankful am I, though, that we are NOT trying to get to DC with all the weather we've had in Colorado lately? You oughta see the drifts outside my house! So this is our first year to create more traditions and do our own thing. Bode is very excited about the presents aspect of things this year. He kind of gets the whole Santa Claus thing. I've spent some time playing with him and his Little People nativity scene. That certainly makes it easy to teach an almost-3-year old about Baby Jesus and the story of His birth. I've gotten some laughs out of our play together. Let's see if i can remember to quote him correctly. Here's one. This is what he said as Keegen (8 months old) was mouthing the Mary figure..."KEEEEE-GEN! Why are you eating Mary?!" Also relating to Mary, he said, "Jesus doesn't need his mommy. She can go next door." And in regards to one of the wisemen, who happens to be the character he knows as Sonya Lee from a Little People video..."She's not a wiseman, she's a wiseGIRL!" Hopefully through all of that he's learned something about Jesus??!
We had a great family night out tonight. We've spent a lot of time cooped up in the house lately due to the blizzard so it felt especially good. We went to Poor Richard's, this funky little place in downtown CS. It's a combination pizza place, toy store, used bookstore, wine/coffee/chocolate bar (ooh ya!) and gift shop. I love it. The pizza is great and the salad is better. And better yet, there's a great little play area in the back that Bode loves. So Doug and i actually got to eat in peace and it ALMOST felt like a date. On the way back to the car, one of the many old churches was playing carols from their belltower (not really a carillon, i think it was just a few bells...what's the difference?) We checked out the Christmas lights on the way home, one of Bode's favorite things to do of late. A very lovely evening. Maybe a new tradition for Christmas Eve Eve?
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