Thursday, December 11, 2008

I know she is listening

We've been talking about the Christmas story especially at dinner when we light the Advent wreath. We've talked all about how Mary was pregnant with Jesus and how He was born in a manger, etc. We decorated the house last weekend, and one of the kids' favorite decorations is a handmade, kid friendly manger scene. It has just the Holy Family, and the baby Jesus is probably about the size of Grace's hand. Well, as you may know, Grace LOVES playing babies. So, the other day she was sitting in her little chair in the living room plying with this Mary, Joseph, and Jesus, and I look up as she is rocking and cuddling the little baby, and she says, "Look Mommy at my little baby Jesus, she just came out of my tummy. She's a newborn, isnt she tiny and cute?" She had the sweetest little question mark on her face as she said it. I could only laugh, it was so sweet and innocent. She's our little tender heart. I guess we need to go over the details of the Christmas story a few more times...

Learning to Talk

Annie is 18 months now and she is learning new words everyday. Some of her words are easy to understand and others, not so much. Earlier today we made cookies and the kids had them as their bed time snack. So I am getting the kids ready for a bath and Annie keeps putting her hand in her shirt and saying, "icky". Well she had spilled some milk on her shirt and I thought she was saying -sticky. Well, I take her onesie off for bath and she had a cookie in the waist of her diaper! So her "icky" was really "cookie"! Poor thing, she was telling me, I just didnt understand! But not only did she have a cookie in there, she had every color of sprinkle you can imagine. Good thing we were headed to the bath!