Huck had a big day! First he had a visit with Santa. He thought about crying, but held it together in order to get a cute picture with Big Brother and Big Sis. It was his second visit- the first was earlier this week at The hubby's work. More on that later.
Huck has been crawling for awhile now, but he Army crawls on his tummy instead of up on his knees. He is pretty quick about it. While making diner tonight (does heating food up in the microwave count as "making dinner?") he came crawling into the kitchen up on his knees just like he has been doing it that way all along. And then he continued to crawl that way the rest of the night! Then after dinner he cruised his way down the coffee table! One of his favorite activities is to pull everything off the table and throw it on the floor. Big fun when you are almost 9 months!
Earlier this week Santa came to Daddy's work. And he brought his reindeer. If you brought a toy to donate you got your picture taken with Santa and the Reindeer.
The kids thought it was great. But in the car on the way home the conversation took an interesting turn.
Duchess: Mommy, I think Santa looked kinda like (Daddy's boss) Mr Al.
Bubba: Yeah, where did Mr Al go when Santa got there?
Duch: Because his skin was kinda dark and Mr Al's skin is kinda dark.
Bubba: Mr Al left and then like 10 minutes later Santa came.
Duch: And I don't think Santa has dark skin.
I just let them talk between the two of them and didn't say much. Bubba knew the Santa today wasn't the real Santa, but he told me that this Santa was one of Santa's helpers because the real Santa is busy making toys. It's a fine line to walk. I don't want to outright lie, but also don't want to kill the fun...
Duchess had her Christmas Sing-A-Long at school. Very sweet angels and shepards.
And some tree decorating pics.
I love M's dress. It is no wonder she has so many boyfriends.
ReplyDeleteWe got a Christmas book from the library titled A Child is Born and the illustrator decided to make Mary, Joseph and Jesus decidedly African in appearance. I wondered if the kids would comment on it, but they haven't yet. I guess I've told them enough times that we don't really know what Jesus looked like (other than making predictions based on his Jewishness and where he was born) that they just accept this interpretation. It's fun to wonder what is going on in their brains when they ponder these things, isn't it?