The day arrived that Dennis has been anxiously awaiting: time to open the first door of the Advent calendar. David brought home a nice pre-lit tabletop tree specifically for our Advent ornaments, and tonight we hung the first ornament, the one behind Door #1. It's an angel, which we put on the top of the tree. Today's activities: read the verses at the end of Luke 1 where the angel appears to Mary and tells her that she will have the baby that will change the world, and watch the Charlie Brown Christmas special. You may have noticed that we have now watched this 3 times according to what I've written, but it's actually been more than that. He loves this so much, and it has such a nice message that I let him watch it whenever he asks. (We also watched 'Shrek the Halls', not that it related to our Advent activities.)
I put up the rest of our decorations this afternoon when I was feeling pretty good (I don't feel so good tonight, unfortunately, but whatever it is seems to be passing on by fairly quickly as I am MUCH better than yesterday) and Dennis was entranced by everything and had to check it out. He loves Christmas. He kept shouting at me "Happy New Year" today and I tried to explain that we still had a month to go before that holiday so he shrugged his little shoulders and yelled instead "Happy Merry Holidays, Mommy!". Seeing Christmas through his eyes is going to be incredible. He loves the lights and the colors and baby Jesus and Santa Claus--it's all new and wonderful to him. What a season to be a Mommy!
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