This is us waiting in the car while Kris ran into the grocery store to grab rolls for Christmas dinner.
Burgers were good, but Max had a tough time concentrating. The fact that his meal came in a little red wagon didn't help with the concentration, but did for sure add to the festive atmosphere of the evening.
You can see from this picture that monkey (oh whoops, I mean SOCK monkey, I get in trouble for that all the time) also came with us to dinner. He comes with us most places lately.
After dinner we headed home where Max opened up his Christmas Eve PJs and his last advents present. I have to say I'm really really pleased with how the advents presents turned out. They were really exciting for him and I think even helped him get a better idea of the passage of days in general. Also, the Playmobil nativity was great, I think it really helped him relate to the story. So I'm happy with how it turned out. (Oh yeah, except that the day after Christmas at bedtime he was very upset that he didn't have a "number present" to open. That was a little tough to explain.)
We read the Christmas story in the scriptures and then acted it out with the Playmobil.
After that we read the nativity pop up book that's a classic from when I was growing up (I was so excited when I found the book at a used book store a few years ago).
Then Max put out Santa's milk and cookies (yum) and hit the sack. Nice and early. Then we had the rest of the evening all to ourselves, just the way we like it!
We somehow convinced Sultan not to eat Santa's goods.
More Christmas to come!! I'm sure I'll finish with the reporting sometime before Easter rolls around.
6 comments:
Thanks Ginna
It was almost as good as being there with you
Dad
Sheesh, I just wrote this long thing, and the computer ate it.
You were keeping more traditions than you knew. I can't remember how many years we set out for our Christmas Eve eating out (your dad's family used to do that), only to find out that the restaurant we were headed to was closed.
Do you remember going to the Coachman that one time when Robby Bosco was there?
I love being able to see all these pictures. This was your first Christmas as a little family all alone together. You're doing so well. But we felt like we were with you. What a blessing. We love you so much.
Grrrr, I am NOT anonymous. Drat this site.
One Christmas Eve, Eve Mike and I started watching a show on the history channel when we went to bed. It was the history of fast food. They went through pizza, fried chicken, hotdogs, and hamburgers. The hamburgers spoke to us. We decided we had to have a good old fashioned homemade hamburger. So we ditched the mexican food I was going to make and took the kids to the store to get stuff to have hamburgers for Christmas Eve dinner. They were great burgers, so your Christmas eve dinner reminded me of that. Sometimes it's nice to just be a small family and enjoy each other. Looks like you had a great Christmas.
I really like the playmobile nativity. I have never seen that before. What a good way to get Max involved. I felt like I was there too enjoying a fun Christmas Eve. Good traditions your starting.
That's great! I love seeing Max starting to really be part of the festivities. Good job making christmas fantastic Gin!
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