Funny Story

When I read to my kids I will frequently change the characters to their names. There is usually an unspoken agreement that if Chio got the book hers is the name I put in, alex it's alex, etc. However on Christmas we were reading the books that my sister got for them. It was Chio's book and it was about a little princess surprisingly named Chio. As the book goes on we met Prince Robert and so since this is a book from alex's aunt he wanted his name in it too. So I quickly flipped to the end to see if this would be an okay addition.

As I'm looking alex says, "Mom, you can't read the end of the book until you get there!" He's horrified.

I say, "It's okay I'll read the middle in just a second."

"I'm going to tell dad."

Still checking, I'm only half paying attention, "Tell dad what?"

"That you're cheating."

"It's not cheating, this is how i always read books."

"I know! Dad told me, and it's just wrong!"

So I guess I won't be converting alex over to my wicked ways :)

Christmas Eve

We went over to some friends and they have a tradition (that I want to start in our home) where they dress up like people from Bethlehem and eat food they would have eaten at Jesus' time and then they read the story. It was a blast!

I wanted to get these up because I know that tomorrow we are going to have tons more things to post. (notice chio's legs in this video- she's so innocent.)

Santa

We went to see Santa...not this one, a live one inside I didn't take a picture of. Chio and alex changed what they asked for again. What do you do when that happens?

Christmas Lights

I know that these pictures are kind of....bad. But it was still fun times. We took about a hundred more too so you should be glad I only subjected you to these. We like to play with the shutter.

I'm ready for my close up...

You may have noticed that even after we bought the new camera I was still a blog writing slacker. Well, that was because I then lost the stupid charger for the one of a kind battery in the camera so I still couldn't take pictures. I may have mentioned this before..... Anyway, Chio is especially excited to have the camera back. She came in this morning and said," Mom, take my pitcure." And then she posed, like this. Where did she come from, seriously?.

Christmas Program 2

His Teacher

Never mind, there will be no Christmas program video for you (dad, sorry you'll just have to wait). And I know the last one was awful- that's why it loaded so fast. Here are some pictures from the event - I'm better with pictures.

Christmas Program

Alright readers, my husband wasn't able to come to alex's christmas program this morning so I am posting these for his viewing pleasure. You may find these long and boring but we of course don't because they're of our kid so bear with us. These are not good quality (halfway through this first one I remembered that you can't take videos in portrait and switched...oops) and chio is "helping" in them too.

O Christmas Tree

Alex likes to have real Christmas trees. So each year we would go to lowes or home depot or those tent tree things (usually all of those places multiply times just to make sure) to find a tree. It was never really enjoyable and I would always wish we just had a fake tree. Then he found this tree farm close to where we live and it's now one of my favorite traditions. Hope fully it will still be fun when they get older, they have a maze (which we lost chio in...), a petting zoo and a hay ride out to where we cut the tree.

Fun Stuff. We went on a cold day, but today it's going to be 70!

It just doesn't feel like Christmas.

Wish you were here!