Christmas Time

This was a really great Christmas. We had fun the whole month of December. Here are some phrases that were very common in our household at Christmas:

The movie of choice this year was definitely The Grinch. So there was also a lot of singing the Grinch songs. And Adam had his own interpretation that I thought was funny. After all of the "ah hoo dorays" or whatever it is they say, I think the correct words are "Bring Your Light". But, Adam liked to say "Bring Your Wife".

Speaking of marriage, Rachel got a little mixed up with Married and Mary. Now any girl or bride with a veil or head covering is considered, "Married".  "Is that Married?" she will say. Just tonight we looked at our wedding picture and R glanced over and said, "Married?".  I haven't had the heart to correct her because it's too dang cute. And then she always asks, "Where's the baby Jesus?"

We also got a little mixed up with the ornaments. I had just explained that things that make music are called instruments. Well, since a few of our ornaments play music, Rachel insisted on calling ornaments=instruments.
As a side note, last year Rachel flung her "baby's first christmas" ornament across the room and it shattered. I cried and they didn't touch the ornaments after that. This year, they were taught how to handle ornaments and they did a good job. But somehow Adam's matching "baby's first christmas" ornament found its way off the tree and it got smashed too. This time, however, I just shrugged and figured it was meant to be. I really didn't like them in the first place, and I figure I can just order some online that I like better and make sure they are shatterproof this time!

The last phrase we heard quite often around here was "I don't want to see Santa!" This was most often uttered after the question, 'What do you want for Christmas?" I don't know why Rachel decided to not like Santa this year, but I blame the Rudolph movie. That Santa is just mean. However, she LOVES the Grinch. Go figure.

More Christmas posts to come...and then maybe I can talk about real life again!