Christmas can be kind of confusing for a kid. Between the commercialism and Santa stuff and then talking about baby Jesus in Sunday school, the whole thing can get a bit hard to explain as a parent. But Brianna has handled it pretty well. She seemed to have no problem talking about Santa coming and mentioning the baby Jesus in the next sentence. In fact, the Sunday before Christmas, the 23rd, we had this discussion:
"How was Sunday School today? Did you sing any songs?"
"No. We just played and had a snack."
"Oh. Really?"
"Actually we did a song. We sang Happy Burtsday to Jesus."
"Oh uh-huh. Because Christmas is Jesus' happy birthday right?"
"Yep. (Pointing to our tree and the presents underneath) Those are Jesus' birthday presents and He doesn't want us to take them, we're supposed to share them."
"I see...." (I guess at Sunday School they must have had a talk about being nice about sharing our toys at Christmas or something.)
So you see then the whole issue is very quite simple, Christmas is that day when Santa brings you presents to celebrate Jesus' birthday. :)
And our Christmas started out with Bree waking us up this morning, yelling from the living room, "MOM AND DAD! MOM AND DAD!" Normally when she first wakes up in the morning she heads straight into our room and snuggles for a few minutes. But today I guess she headed out directly to the living room to see what had happened overnight. So, we threw on our robes and headed in there smirking. "Wow! Santa must have come!" she told us. And so it began.
We started with the stockings as I think most people do. Bree's was full of little things like hair clips, socks, bubble bath, a little stuffed reindeer, some mini My Little Pony's, etc. Nothing real big. But, with every item that came out of the stocking she was exclaiming, "Wow! I never had this before! Just what I wanted for Christmas!" Right around when we finished our stockings Grammy Deb called. Brianna talked to her for a few minutes very excitedly and handed the phone over to me. "And guess what?" I told Grammy, "She's only opened her stocking so far!" This made Grammy Deb laugh since Bree was acting so excited Deb was sure the whole show was over. And here I had thought our little gal was gonna be one tough nut...but she was very excited and happy with every thing she got, even her little barking/wagging puppy that I got her and we had "an incident" over a few entries back. She liked it all, right down to a pair of soft flannel pajamas, when clothing items are usually notoriously unpopular with kids at Christmas. But there she was holding them up and declaring, "Oh these are just my size! And they have heart buttons!"
Although Noah is really too small to get into it, I did find it funny because he seemed to genuinely enjoy his gifts. And so did Bree...because she got to open them for him. He ended up getting several stuffed animals and a few little baby toys, rattles and such, all of which at some point during the day he was rolling around on the floor with, happily mouthing things and playing away. One particular rattle I know he liked for sure because he cried when he dropped it and then was fine once we handed it back to him again. So even the baby was happy with his gifts.
As for Travis and I, it was a cooking/kitchen themed Christmas for us this year. We've been into watching The Food Network lately on TV and are getting more and more into doing things in the kitchen, and have convinced ourselves we need more and more kitchen gadgets. So between the two of us I think we managed to get 6-7 small kitchen appliances or cooking related paraphenalia, not to mention we both had the idea of stuffing the other's stocking with small kitchen items.
Naturally, we all spent the remainder of the day playing with all our stuff and relaxing. So, anyways, that's our story.....hope you had a very Merry Christmas!
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