Christmas Through the Eyes of a Three Year Old

So I went to pick Maddie up from school, and she wouldn't even let me get out of the building before we had to stop so she could show me the picture she had made today. She excitedly told me it was a birthday card for baby Jesus. I of course told her how beautiful it was and thought the conversation was over. About half way to the car, she said, "I'm going to give it to baby Jesus." And I thought I might pursue this one a little more, and I asked her when she was going to give it to him. And with a huge smile on her face she said, "at his birthday party, you bring presents and cards." So she knows that Jesus died on the cross for her sins, but that Jesus had no correlation whatsoever in her mind to the Jesus whose birthday we celebrate on Christmas. When I started trying to explaining that Jesus grew up and died on the cross, her response was Jesus is a big boy now! I said well yes he was when he died, but that was 2,000 years ago (as if that registers with her at all).

But also, this time of year means that our mailbox is jam packed with toy catalogs, and my daughter can spot them from a mile away. So since she usually sits down with them and shows me ALL the toys she needs, I decided it would be a good time for us to work on memorizing Hebrews 13:5 "Keep your life from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, 'Never will I leave, never will I forsake you.' " And she knew the never will I leave you never will I forsake you, so we were saying the first part of the verse back and forth, and when we got to because God has said, I asked her, "because God has said what Maddie?" And she looked back at me and said "no more toys!" I couldn't help but laugh because although God clearly does not say that anywhere in scripture, she understood what the verse translated to in her world!

She has a Christmas Sing at school and a Lessons and Carols she is singing in at school, so she has been practicing several different songs for both of those events. And tonight she decided it was time to give a performance. So here she is..... (and yes, she is wearing some of Emalyn's 12 month pajama pants that I told her were too little for her now and she wanted to show me she could prove me wrong with her glitter sponge pant shirt from VBS this summer)

Here are her lyrics, "O come all he faithful, joyful and triumphant, come me oh come me to Bethlehem." (Ye is not really in a three year old's vocabulary).

And here is round two...blogspot does not like long video clips!

She keeps us laughing there is no doubt about it!

Halloween

Yes, I know it is now almost been a month since Halloween, but what can I say? Life happens and updating the blog always seems to get pushed to another day. We had a wonderful Halloween! Maddie wore a different costume to each little get together we went to. This is her kind of holiday; she got to pick out her own cloths!

We started off Halloween by going to Gentry's Farm with Uncle Tee and Miss Caroline.

Getting a picture of the two of them both looking and smiling is near impossible! I need to do a post of all the attempts of taking cute pictures of the two of them.

Its so hard to believe how little Maddie was this time last year, but here she was!

 

Our lives have changed quite a bit since we were at Gentry's last year!

Pumpkin Carving

Emalyn just chilling as usual!

 

Here is was the costume she finally decided on after to wear in the St. George's Halloween Parade.

Maddie insisted on wearing her "high heels" in the parade, so Mrs. Pendleton, the director, grabbed her hand to help move her along!

And here is her whole class after the parade.

Each mom signs up to help with one of the holiday parties, and I helped with her class Halloween Party.

The next day we had a playgroup Halloween Party, as you can see it was comical trying to get them all to sit on the sofa. We had already lost baby Carrie by the time I could take the picture.

Another costume for Miss Maddie:

And the big night finally arrived!

Anna Caroline stopped by for a visit.

Emalyn was exhausted by the week of activity!

Maddie with our next door neighbor, "baby Hayes." And she had already started on the candy!

Emalyn was so tired! She never stays asleep while we transfer her from one place to another, but not that night. Sound asleep for most of Trick or Treating!

 We have had a great November and loved having Chris home some of this past week for Thanksgiving. I can't believe it is already time for Christmas lights!