Our Growing Family: Christmas

This was such a fun Christmas for us. This was the first year Jacob really "got it". He was all about opening his presents (and helping mommy and daddy open their's too). He asked about Santa (and still is a month later). He loved helping decorate the tree and was the first to plug in the lights each time we came home. He even went up to our nativity set and pointed out baby Jesus. It was a great time!

Some fun things that happened:
Christmas Eve, we went to our church candlelight service. We just assumed that childcare would be provided, but it wasn't. So that meant taking a 3-year old that had not napped into the service with us. Not too many worries because everyone else had their kids there too, but somehow, our's seemed loudest...haha.

Jacob has this thing about people singing. For whatever reason, he doesn't like it. He usually shushes me if I'm singing along with the radio. For a while, I thought it was just my singing (ha), but then I noticed that he does this to everyone. Well, he was no different Christmas Eve. As the congregation started singing, he was shushing them. I could hear the laughs from behind us. Finally, he gave up and tried to join in. It was actually pretty cute.

So.. good, we make it through the first song. Maybe the coast is clear. Nope. As soon as the song finishes, Jacob loudly askes, "done?....Done???" Again, we hear the snickers from behind us. Several songs later, he is still doing this after each song!!!

So, here's the clencher. We make it to the sermon part of the program. No music to drown out Jacob's ramblings. During what had to be the most quiet part of the program, Jacob proceeds to tell me (and everyone within a 10-ft radius) that he had pee'd in his pull-up. I actually snickered at that one, so I missed the laughs from behind us.

All in all, we didn't really get to enjoy the service, mostly because we was trying to contain our child and keep him from ruining the experience for everyone else. But, at least we got a few laughs.....haha.

And out of all of the BIG gifts he got, his favorite was a toss up between the harmonica that he got in his stocking and the packing peanuts that were in one of his gifts.....LOL. So, it really is true that they go for the box vs the actual toy, huh?