This year was our year to celebrate Christmas with my family. The girls always have so much fun at Poppy and Peepie's house! They love playing with Eden and loving on baby Chase :) There was quite the snowstorm on Christmas Eve this year, but we managed to make it to church that evening despite the mess. Of course Maryn makes everything interesting. We went to St. Stephen's on the hill in Cedar Falls and they have a large crucifix hanging from the ceiling that is a very graphic artistic portrayal. I noticed Maryn eyeing it and she started asking questions... "Why does he have holes in his hands?" "Didn't that hurt?" "Why did they hurt him?" "Are they going to put holes in my hands?" She has heard the story of Easter many times, but never with graphic pictures before. This was really starting to hit her and she was quite upset about it. Right there in the middle of church I had a full blown (whispered) spiritual conversation about why Jesus had to die on the cross for us and how we are so thankful that he did that so we could spend our forever life together in heaven. She got it, but was still terrified of the crucifix and didn't want to look at it. At one point (of course when it got quiet) she very loudly proclaims "I don't like this church!" And then after they announced "the gospel according to St. Paul", she took advantage of the pause in the speaking to announce "I don't like St. Paul, he was a mean guy!". I'm sure all the people around us just thought we were some atheist family that the grandparents dragged to Christmas Eve church. Ahhh. Life with kids. You gotta love what they come up with!
Our girls before Christmas Eve church
Maya's Christmas dress 2010
Makenna's Christmas dress 2010
Maryn's Christmas dress 2010
Maryn's favorite gift at Poppy and Peepie's - the movie "Pocahontas"
Maya checking out her new "Maya" puzzle
One of Makenna's favorite gifts - the book "Ramona Quimby Age 8"
Pure elation! Cotton balls for Christmas!
Maya running away and trying to hide with her bag of cotton balls... at home we typically take them away and don't let her play with the bag. She thought we would take her favorite gift!
Christmas cuddles
The birthday cake we made for baby Jesus! This has become a new favorite tradition of ours! And let me not fail to forget that it was completely dairy-free (so Maya could eat it) and was still excellent. I don't like chocolate cake, but apparently dairy-free chocolate cake is good!
Maya with her absolute favorite gift - cotton balls!
Sweet baby Chase! He is such a good baby!
1 comment:
so cute! and one year we gave my brother jacob tape for christmas. he did the same thing! (that was when he used to tape moths to the back door...do you remember that?)
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