Christmas is very different this year since Tuttle really understands Santa and is starting to connect Jesus to the big day. He can tell me that it is Jesus' birthday, but he is somewhat disappointed when I have to reveal that Jesus is not having a party at Hippo Hop. :) The holidays through the eyes of your children is such a fun thing to experience!
We started out Christmas Eve with green pancakes with red sprinkles compliments of Daddy. He made some delicious eggs and sausage, but those were overlooked due to the Christmas shaped pancakes.
After Jay gave me an early Christmas gift of helping clean the house from top to bottom, we headed to the Christmas Eve service at church. I thought it was going to be a small family service, but I was VERY wrong. It was HUGE and a full production. We braved taking Maggie and Tuttle into the service, and both did well. Tuttle enjoyed the live nativity skit put on by the kids, especially the wise men.
We left the service a few minutes early to head to Aunt Peach's condo for Grandaddy's traditional reading of famous poems, The Night Before Christmas, and Daddy's reading of the biblical Christmas story. This is always such a special time for our family.
Unfortunatly we could not stay too late because we had to get home and prepare for Santa. Tuttle left out cookies and milk, and he also left out dogfood for the reindeer. Tuttle and Maggie were clearly on the nice list because Santa left a room full of presents.
I could not sleep at all in all the excitement, so when Maggie was up at 6:45am, I pulled Jay out of bed to watch the kids react to Santa's delivery. Luckily Jay set up a video camera to capture Tuttle's first real reaction to Christmas morning. Maggie and Tuttle played with their new toys until Grandmommy and Grandaddy arrived with MORE PRESENTS to open.
Christmas with the Thorne Family in the next post..... :)
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