We've had a wonderful Christmas in TX with Grant's parents and will be here until January 2, so I probably won't post photos until we get home, but I wanted to share a few funny stories from Texas!
Grant's mom, Carol, has an ornament with a photograph of each of her boys for every year of their childhood. She's started the tradition with Maggie, too. Well, Maggie has had a lot of fun this year looking at all the photos of Grant as a little kid. The other night he was putting her to bed and she said, "Daddy, I always thought you were a cutie when you were a little boy but now I KNOW that you were! And you're still a cutie!" She took her favorite ornament off of Carol's main tree and put it on a little tree in our bedroom so she could look at "little boy" Daddy whenever she wanted.
That same night she said, "Daddy, tonight I want you to sing me a song that Grandma used to sing to you when you were a little boy, and I need to have never heard it before."
Maggie's TX and CA relatives went crazy this year with presents for Maggie. Her two uncles in California sent several boxes full of gifts before we arrived, and two more arrived after we were here! On Christmas Day we were almost done opening presents and Maggie disappeared. I went into the room we're staying in and she was in bed. She said, "Mama, don't wake me up! I'm pretending to be asleep!" I said, "Maggie, you still have three more presents to open. Don't you want to come open them?" She said, "That's okay, Mama, you can open them for me." I've never heard of a kid who quits opening presents before she's done! I guess she was suffering from Christmas present fatigue. (No one really feels sorry for her for this!)
The other night as I was putting her to bed (seems she has her funniest moments at bedtime lately) she said, "Mama, I miss nursing." (She's three and hasn't nursed in two years, for Pete's sake!) I told her I was sorry but that she was a big girl now, blah blah blah. She said, "Do you think I can nurse again when we get to heaven?"
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and check back next week for photos!
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Roman soldiers
A snippet of conversation from our ride home from "Walk Through Bethlehem" (a Christmas event recreating Bethlehem at Christ's birth) tonight:
Maggie: Why were those Roman soldiers so mean? Why did they eat people?
Grant: They don't eat people. People don't eat people.
Maggie: Caleb does.
Me: When have you ever seen Caleb eat a person?
Maggie: I meant a different Caleb.
Me: When have you seen a different Caleb eat a person?
Maggie: (scoffs) Like, a million times.
Right this minute she's running around, pretending to be a Roman soldier and eating people. I guess our conversation didn't really sink in.
Maggie: Why were those Roman soldiers so mean? Why did they eat people?
Grant: They don't eat people. People don't eat people.
Maggie: Caleb does.
Me: When have you ever seen Caleb eat a person?
Maggie: I meant a different Caleb.
Me: When have you seen a different Caleb eat a person?
Maggie: (scoffs) Like, a million times.
Right this minute she's running around, pretending to be a Roman soldier and eating people. I guess our conversation didn't really sink in.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Sleeping cutie
I know I probably shouldn't take photos of Maggie when she's sleeping (because it might wake her up) but I can't help myself. She just looks so sweet!
Did I mention we've been decorated for Christmas since about two weeks before Thanksgiving?! Maggie and I had to go to Lowe's and while we were there Maggie spotted the 12' inflatable Holy Family. She immediately became smitten with baby Jesus and didn't want to go anywhere else in the store. I think she could have stood there for an hour just looking at baby Jesus. I finally convinced her to go home by reminding her that we had our own baby Jesus in our nativity scene at home. I told her we'd get it out of storage soon. For the next two days it was all she could talk about. Immediately upon waking, multiple times, she would ask if it was time to get baby Jesus out. Finally we gave in and Grant brought in the Christmas decorations. We got out the nativity scene and Grant decided to leave the boxes inside since we knew we'd be decorating soon. After looking at them for about an hour we decided we might as well go ahead and decorate our whole house. It was kind of embarrassing for about two weeks when anyone came over, but then it was nice to already be decorated when Thanksgiving was over! Maggie is still over the moon about baby Jesus and although she knows the nativity scene is for decoration, not playing, she is allowed to hold him once a day. If we go anywhere that has a nativity scene out Maggie gasps loudly and then says, "Baby JESUS!" with so much joy. It just makes me happy.
I love Christmas so much that my family calls me the Christmas elf. I honestly didn't think Christmas could be any more fun but this is shaping up to be my most fun Christmas ever. We took Maggie to Opryland Hotel and she LOVED all the decorations (although we didn't love paying $20 for parking!). More importantly, she's finally old enough to have a good grasp of the Christmas story. Plus, it's really fun to hear her retell it ("There are these three guys and they had presents for baby Jesus..."). Maggie is definitely my mini-elf!
Did I mention we've been decorated for Christmas since about two weeks before Thanksgiving?! Maggie and I had to go to Lowe's and while we were there Maggie spotted the 12' inflatable Holy Family. She immediately became smitten with baby Jesus and didn't want to go anywhere else in the store. I think she could have stood there for an hour just looking at baby Jesus. I finally convinced her to go home by reminding her that we had our own baby Jesus in our nativity scene at home. I told her we'd get it out of storage soon. For the next two days it was all she could talk about. Immediately upon waking, multiple times, she would ask if it was time to get baby Jesus out. Finally we gave in and Grant brought in the Christmas decorations. We got out the nativity scene and Grant decided to leave the boxes inside since we knew we'd be decorating soon. After looking at them for about an hour we decided we might as well go ahead and decorate our whole house. It was kind of embarrassing for about two weeks when anyone came over, but then it was nice to already be decorated when Thanksgiving was over! Maggie is still over the moon about baby Jesus and although she knows the nativity scene is for decoration, not playing, she is allowed to hold him once a day. If we go anywhere that has a nativity scene out Maggie gasps loudly and then says, "Baby JESUS!" with so much joy. It just makes me happy.I love Christmas so much that my family calls me the Christmas elf. I honestly didn't think Christmas could be any more fun but this is shaping up to be my most fun Christmas ever. We took Maggie to Opryland Hotel and she LOVED all the decorations (although we didn't love paying $20 for parking!). More importantly, she's finally old enough to have a good grasp of the Christmas story. Plus, it's really fun to hear her retell it ("There are these three guys and they had presents for baby Jesus..."). Maggie is definitely my mini-elf!
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Maggie's first dentist visit!
Maggie had her first cleaning (actually not her first visit to the dentist, but the first time she had her teeth cleaned). I was a little nervous about how she would do but she did great! She didn't love the way the toothpaste felt or tasted, and she wouldn't really let the dentist examine her teeth, but she sat still for the entire cleaning! She thought it was really silly that we both had to wear bibs while we were in the chair. She also charmed the pants off of all the dental assistants, receptionists, and other hygienists - they tried to take her home with them.
Here she is with our wonderful hygienist, Miss Shelley! Maggie LOVES Miss Shelley and we talk about her a lot - as in, "Maggie, Miss Shelley really wants you to brush your teeth so you don't get any sugar bugs." We just have to invoke Miss Shelley's name to get Maggie to do anything teeth-related.
The other day Maggie was trying to get Grant to do something with her and he told her he would in five minutes. She waited patiently for three minutes, couldn't stand it any more, and went back in his office. She said, "Daddy, I know this is rude but could you please come with me right now?!" What do you think he did? :)
Maggie and I love to paint her toenails/fingernails. Her favorite style is to paint her left hand and left foot with hot pink nail polish, and her right hand and right foot with light pink nail polish. I'm pretty sure this is all the rage in Europe or something :) Anyway, when we were painting her nails the other day she said, "These nails are so pink. They're pinkernails!"
Here she is with our wonderful hygienist, Miss Shelley! Maggie LOVES Miss Shelley and we talk about her a lot - as in, "Maggie, Miss Shelley really wants you to brush your teeth so you don't get any sugar bugs." We just have to invoke Miss Shelley's name to get Maggie to do anything teeth-related.The other day Maggie was trying to get Grant to do something with her and he told her he would in five minutes. She waited patiently for three minutes, couldn't stand it any more, and went back in his office. She said, "Daddy, I know this is rude but could you please come with me right now?!" What do you think he did? :)Maggie and I love to paint her toenails/fingernails. Her favorite style is to paint her left hand and left foot with hot pink nail polish, and her right hand and right foot with light pink nail polish. I'm pretty sure this is all the rage in Europe or something :) Anyway, when we were painting her nails the other day she said, "These nails are so pink. They're pinkernails!"
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