My Little Creature's Not Stirring...

Our Henry woke up this morning feeling pretty sure of himself-

or of Nonnie to deliver...sorry, mom Oh yeah!


We went to dinner at Daddy's restaurant (per tradition, except dinner now starts at 5PM not 10PM).
Here's Henry hangin' around the bar before dinner.



Willie and Claudia joined us. Perfect!

Here are Cole and his Mommy last year...

This year...

We left dinner by 6:30, to catch the, oops, 6:00PM Children's Services at church. Oh well, we were able to sing a few carols and play in the snow in the church garden.

Henry this year...


Henry last year...

This is right after he walked the length of the center aisle crawled right up to the alter and grabbed the Virgin Mary. Good one Henry! At least it was after the service.

We snuck back to the restaurant for a quick change and a good-night smooch!

Tucked him into his car seat, warm bottle, blanket and by the time we got home, our boy was...

WIRED!!!

Henry doesn't really understand the concept of Christmas yet. He knows Santa to see him as well as Baby Jesus. He knows parts of Christmas Carols ("Jingle way...", "Santa Clause... town", "Badabadabada"-Drummer Boy) but he has not put it all together. There's even a book that we're reading where Santa Clause visits Bethlehem in search of the newborn King (I know...). So I thought it was pretty funny when Henry looked in the fireplace saying,

"Santa? Santa? Baby Jesus"

Okay, here is our official last bad (poor quality) photograph. Let's just say that Daddy let me open my Christmas present early, yipeeeee! Now if I can just get through he 200 page manual before morning...
Well, here's what I should be putting together...

Merry Christmas Everyone!