Christmas came and went and it was kind of cool to have our first Christmas with Anna-Kate really into it. Last year she was still to young to understand what was going on but this year she got the whole concept of gifts = toys in her case.
Her big gift this year was a doll we got her, one that does not make noise, spit up, poop, pee, or do anything else obnoxious... its just a doll. We also got her a stroller for said baby and pretty much she was walking that thing around all day on Christmas and Boxing day. The funniest site was seeing her in the car driving home yesterday holding the baby, talking on her cell phone (a toy cell phone) and talking up a storm to "Addie..." what she calls Adam Crabb. She also got a vacuum cleaner from Mana and Papa (Janelle's Grandparents, Anna-Kate's Great Grandparents) and a few books and lots of toy food for her kitchen courtesy of my parents.
I got a few cds, David Gray's Lost Songs which I'm pretty excited about, and some dvds and a cashmere sweater. Janelle got some jewelry, one of those digital picture frames, and some stuff for around the house.
It was a great Christmas, though insanely quick. Work was going so full speed the weeks prior to christmas that I felt like I wasn't able to sit and just relax and enjoy the time of year. Every once and a while I got a sec to soak it all in. Going to our Church's christmas concert had to be the highlight of the season. Janelle sang in the choir and Anna-Kate and I watched. It was a tad long but it was really great to sit for 2 hours and listen to Christmas music that is about Christ. Granted Anna-Kate melted down with only 15 minutes left in the program... I forgot to feed her dinner so i had to duck out and feed her a granola bar to tide her over. But she made it an hour and 45 minutes just sitting in my lap in awe of the singers and music.
Also watching the kids choir sing gave janelle and I a glimpse of the future and gave us warm fuzzies as we look forward to our kids sitting up there squirming and singing.
But here I am at work again, the only one in the office, feeling a bit like Bob Cratchet. Oh well, least I can afford the Christmas goose.... oh man I could go for some Christmas goose...... hmmmmm.... goose.....
This will probably be our last Christmas traveling. As I was driving home our Honda Fit loaded to the gills, copper in his cage compeletly burried under presents, I realized even with a mini van taking two kids, a dog, and all our key rap is just too much of a hassle. I started rethinking my decision while driving back home and how it will be sad to stop traveling... then Anna-Kate started crying and yelling "UP PLEASE" and I was firmly re-established in my desire to not travel with two kids and a dog.
Posted by holtonian at December 27, 2007 08:47 AM