december 13:playing under the winter down covers
Marshall: “The light! I see the light!” Stewart: “Oh, Yeeaaah!”
Marshall: “Whoah, I’m falling” Stewart: “Ouch, my head! I bonk my head. Ouch…I ok!”
Mama: “Why do you like playing under the winter down?”
Marshall: “Because it’s cozy. And you can see the light, and you can play by the light.”
Mama: “Stewart, why do you like playing under the winter down?”
Stewart: “Because, because, I like under the covers.”
december 12:jolly days @ the museum
I like to go to the Children’s Museum because we get to do the sledding slide, the snow castle, ice fishing and the cookie place. We liked seeing Santa last week. Stewart said, “give us cookies for Christmas.” And we were supposed to give Santa cookies for Christmas, and a carrot for the reindeer and a glass of milk.
december 9:candlelight
We light candles on our advent log every night. The log sits on our fireplace mantle (see the picture on the top of this site.) We light them from each side and work towards the middle, so that the final candle lit is the central one on Christmas day. The boys think the most exciting thing is blowing the candles out.
december 8:christmas music
Ah, how we love the melodious songs and meaningful hymns of Christmas time! We have our favorites, mainly the ones we sing as a family at home, like our evening ritual of, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”. We also enjoy some songs that are not as common and maybe slightly more trendy like U2’s “Baby Please Come Home and Sufjan’s “It’s Christmas, Let’s be Glad” and “We’re going to the Country”.
Last Christmas, my dad made a CD of Handel’s Messiah for the boys, they’ve listened to it almost every night since and refuse to trade it for something else, but to me it will always be some of my favorite Christmas music.
Marshall wanted me to add that his favorite part of “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” is, “and death’s dark shadow put to flight”.
december 7:snow fight and hot chocolate
So we had the first snowball fight of the year today. The boys bundled in their snowsuits. Stewart reminded me of the little brother in “The Christmas Story” as he waddled around. After Stewart got hit by a couple of stray snowballs, he’d had enough. We all gathered around the fireplace to drink hot chocolate. A great Christmas memory.
december 6:santa claus
Stewart: Santa Claus rides on a horsey, on a reindeer. He has some cookies.
Marshall: We leave it downstairs for him and the reindeer eats a carrot and Santa Claus drinks a glass of milk.
Stewart: Santa Claus builds the Christmas tree.
Marshall: And also he brings presents.
Stewart: He brings some candy cane.
Marshall: He says Ho, Ho, Ho.
Stewart: He looks like a man.
Marshall: He looks like a present man.
Stewart: He have a hat. A orange hat.
Marshall: He is trying to say red.
Stewart: A red hat.
Why does he bring you presents?
Marshall: Because it’s Jesus’ birthday.
Stewart: Jesus birthday!
