Well, we had a great Christmas together with family… We spent Christmas Eve with Mike’s family and enjoyed the company of his family. Brody loved being able to run and play with his cousins and smile at his brand new cousin Isabella, this might be fun to explain to him. He now has cousins on both sides now that go by Izzy. He is pretty smart he should catch on fast.
Brody loves playing the piano! He would quietly sneak away and next thing we all heard was the piano. So this will be fun when we move in with my parents in June. There will have to be lots of patience as we teach him he can’t always play the piano. He also found he has a new love of drawing on the chalkboard. He got real angry when I had to take him away so we could go home.
I do have to admit that this Christmas was even more fun with Brody. His face was priceless each time he opened a new gift. He even gave the best smile when he opened up his new PJ’s before he went to bed on Christmas Eve. He was so inquisitive about all that he got. He wanted to play with each thing he opened before he would touch another gift. It was so much fun. Mike and I wanted him to go faster than he did. I’m sure this is going to change when he gets older and it is a race to open all of his gifts, and all I want him to do is slow down.
On Christmas Day we had lunch with my aunt and uncle and their children. Always fun to be with family… Brody again loves to run and play with all of the other kids.
On a more spiritual side, we also wanted to start our own traditions with our little family. So we tried to think of things we wanted to do. This being difficult because Brody is still young and does not sit for long or is too young to really get into things. We decided this year to try and read Luke 2, it was helpful that we had a picture book that had the pictures of the story. He loved the pictures and had no idea about the story. We of course will keep trying to find the traditions that will work for our family.
It was just great to be together. That was truly our favorite part.
