A traditional Christmas

Growing up we used to see the traditional white Christmas pictures, despite it being so hot on Christmas day.

Living in California and then in Seattle - chances of having a white Christmas are still pretty slim. It rarely snows in San Francisco and only about 3-4 times a year in Seattle.

Therefore, you can imagine how thrilled I was to look out my window just after writing my last post to see that it is snowing!

Now we have to wait and see if it sticks, and see if we might have a white christmas or not.

Some Christmas Quotes

There was definately alot of excitement in our household this morning.

Just to let you in on the Christmas scene, these were some overheard comments...

Isaac

"Mummy, Daddy, quickly! Look, Quickly, Mummy, Daddy! Santa came!"

"What would happen if someone was called "From"?" Followed by lots of giggles.

"That's just what I wanted but I forgot to put it on my list!" (When opening a transformer from Santa)

When talking about the Christmas story...

Werona: "What did the angels do?"
Isaac: "They came to sigh."
Werona: "Sigh? Did they sigh when they saw the baby?"
Isaac: "Yes!"

Lizzy

Werona: "What did the angels do?
Lizzy: "They flew"

"Santa didn't bring that! We bought it!" (said when Ben opened a present from his stocking)

Ben

"Oh - it looks like Mummy put some more things in the Santa Stocking" (followed by a confused look from Isaac and a dirty look from me).

Werona

"Oh no. It wasn't me. It must have been Santa" (said whilst trying to cover Ben's blooper)

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring
Not even a mouse..."

Oh darn. Who came up with that perfect image? They obviously didn't have a 4 & 6 year old who are so excited that Santa is coming that they can't fall asleep nearly 3 hours after bedtime. It's not through lack of trying. They are lying so quietly in their beds, and when Ben checked on them Lizzy told him "I'm trying to sleep but I just can't wait for Santa to come".

Maybe we'll be sleeping in tomorrow morning after all.

Sandwiches

Just lately, Isaac has been wanting some variations to his usual peanut & butter sandwiches. We've tried it with the usuals such as jam and honey, but yesterday he wanted something different.

"Mummy, can I have peanut butter and vegemite?"

I told him I didn't think it would taste nice but he still wanted it. I ended up putting peanut butter on half and vegemite on the other and then cut off a slither of each. He put those slithers together and gobbled it up. The verdict? Yummy! So the rest of the sandwich was placed together and eaten.

Maybe his dual nationality is coming out in his eating habits...a sandwich which is a little Australian and a little American in flavour.

How Do You Feel?

Yesterday, while Isaac was at Speech Therapy, Lizzy I and played a game we found in a kid's magazine.

There was a question in there which asked "How do you feel when you argue with someone?".

Her response was "Happy".

I was a little confused and thought maybe she didn't understand the question. "Do you feel happy when you and Isaac have a fight?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because then Isaac is sad".

O-oh. No misunderstanding there. I think we have a little issue to work on.

Chistmas Concert

Last night was Elizabeth's Christmas Concert. She was very excited about singing at the concert, and had been singing her songs to us for the past week.

The time finally arrived for the concert, and she seemed a little overwhelmed. She stood quietly with all her class and sang her songs whilst seeming to look for Mummy & Daddy. I don't think she ever found us, despite the fact that we were in the 4th row and had shown her where we sit.


Here are some photos of her singing...

Now...don't go into shock - but Ben took a photo of Lizzy & I...

OK...now I've actually posted a photo of myself. Don't expect another for a long time :)

It's Beginning to Look alot Like Christmas

Yesterday was December 1. For me, this is the offical first day of the Christmas period. From this day forward I can listen to Christmas carols, put up the decorations and starting feeling Christmassy.

To help along with the mood, mother nature decided to dump a few inches of snow on us. It was really quite beautiful and so fitting for the first day of the Christmas lead-up. As a result, the song "It's beginning to look alot like Christmas" kept on going around my head.