I have always loved celebrating Jesus birthday, even when I was little, singing "Happy Birthday Jesus." As with most parents, I really want our children to understand the real meaning of Christmas, aside from all the gifts. This year we started a series of nightly Advent devotions the trace the telling of Christ's birthday from Old Testament to New. I feel like they understood mostly except when we went over the different names of Jesus..."Wonderful, Savior, Everlasting Father, Might God...", oh and "He shall be called Emanuel." Cameron said "Why don't they just call him Jesus?" Things are so simple to a 3 year old! They got the biggest kick out of shouting "Glory to God in the Highest" when we were studying about the angles appearing to the shepherd! We also had a countdown calender with a treat for them each night...which was a little more exciting to them than the bible study, I must say.
Christmas Eve brought me so much excitement as we set out their gifts. I was thinking how excited they would be so see everything and thinking this is how our Heavenly Father feels when he give us gifts! Here is what Santa left for each...
As par the course for Christmas morning, the kids slept late! They never really sleep past 7 or 7:15 normally, but this year we had to start making noise around 8pm to wake them up. We would have let them sleep but we had to start getting ready for church. I will say it was nice to have them sleep late because Young and I got to have a quiet Christmas morning together, opening gifts from one another and enjoying the silence for a little while. Here is Young opening his big gift...a Thomas Moser clock. He had no idea he was getting it and he tried his best to figure it out!
After enjoying ourselves and our gifts we decided we need to get the kids going if we were going to get the church on time...so we turned on a few lights and banged some pots and pans around, he, he, he.
Timo was super easy to buy for, he wanted everything he saw. Cameron was so hard to buy for, she wanted nothing really. Everything I would ask her about she "claimed" she already had it...in one form of another. All she really asked for was a horse, croquet set and a race track. I couldn't bring myself to buy her a race track (we just don't have the space to keep it set up) so I settled on trying Barbie out on her...I should have stuck with the race tack. She was way more into Timo's toys than her own...except her art supplies...she loves art!
Timo liked his hockey table and remote control car but fell in love with his new automatic Thomas and train set! (complete with his Thomas conductor hat)
What an exciting morning! The kids were having so much fun and it was REALLY difficult to get them to switch gears and focus on getting ready for church..but we managed with the promise of opening gifts when we got home! Stay tuned...
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