And then we turn this on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxdjeFYrih8 and Frankie and Joey both go NUTS with happiness.
I've been blasting that youtube '3 Hours of Christmas Music' for the past three years in our house because it's a good variety of all the greatest Christmas songs and it has a nice winter scene slideshow and Frankie goes crazy when she sees a picture of horses in the snow and it's the cutest thing on earth.
What? What else can I say about life right now? It's December 1st. WHAT?! Insanity. I. LOVE. Christmas time with Joey (and Frankie of course) but Joey just gets so freaking excited. Like, when he's dancing around to Christmas music with me, sometimes he'll just shout out "MOMMY! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE IT!" and he's super excited about all the lights and he was even excited to see Santa!
Last week we went and got the kids picture with Santa because there's this awesome place (Bass Pro Shop) that gives you a free Santa photo and super cute picture frame.
Santa was only a 2 on the creepy Santa scale although in the pic it looks like he's more of a 7. He was so sweet to Joey and when he asked him what he wanted for Christmas, Joey was literally laughing while he told him all of the things he wanted because he was so excited. Oh, and what he wanted was 3 of the cars that we've lost (one of which we've found since his encounter with Santa), one of which he'll be getting in his advent calendar, and one that Frankie dropped into the toilet and I flushed down. Oops. Oh, also... Frankie was completely terrified of Santa. As you can clearly see.
Also, as a Christian parent, I feel like I'm doing a good job. There are lots of things where I feel like I'm doing something wrong as a parent, but instilling Christian values in Joey isn't one of those things. We pray so much and read the bible every night. He goes to Sunday school and loves it every week and mid week he goes to Awanas, which he LOVES more than life itself and learns memory verses like it's his job! He works hard and takes it seriously and earned two more badges yesterday on his Cubbies vest. I'm always amazed at the amount of verses stored in his brain that he can bust out at a moments notice because of Cubbies! Love my little bible boy.
Don't ask why he stuck his head in the railing.... he's a boy. That's why! haha Oh, and that sticker on his hand? He got it for being a superstar listener and helping the teacher hold up a poster board during story time. wahhhhhh. I love him so much!
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We've been going to a lot of Next Step at the YMCA lately. I want to try to take Joey there Monday-Thursday and slowly have him get used to the idea that one day I won't go with him anymore. He learns interesting things about neighbors, teamwork, honesty, etc etc and they have a different 'value' they talk about every day. Oh, and recently they started doing teamwork games and the kids are all way into it! It's SO cute to watch. And he's started actually practicing writing letters when they go to the five minute practice sesh, which is awesome! He even did his homework with me two days ago (practicing capitol and small a's and coloring) and got a prize! So fun!
A game where the kids all got a playing card and had to get sorted in order of lowest number to highest. Joey's looking at himself in the mirror ;) Joey looks short because a lot of the kids there are 4
There is little in this world that Frankie loves more than elephants (and fish)
Frankie's way too young for the class (it's 3-5 year olds) but, when it comes to Joey's craft, she's in there like swimwear
I love this picture so much because Joey still looks like such a little baby in it <3 He IS still such a little baby. How?! How is he THREE?!
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