Best Christmas EVER!

Tuesday night we went over to the elementary school where Shaun teaches to watch their Christmas program. It was kind of fun- each grade got up and sang a couple of songs and jingled some bells. We had front row seats since Shaun was helping out with some of the stuff up on stage. Ty was absolutely transfixed. He loved the Santa's and the reindeer and the jingle bells. Though when the 4th graders went up and sang "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," he turned to me and said:

"Santa Claus is coming to town? That can't be right Mamma."
"Really? Why not?"
"Because Santa lives at the North Pole!!"

I guess he's right.

Ty has been so much fun this Christmas season- he's starting to grasp somethings and others remain over his head. We tried to explain the real meaning behind Christmas and we pulled out the Nativity and showed him the baby Jesus and the Wisemen... but I think it was kind of lost in translation. We kept saying that Christmas was the day that we celebrated Jesus' birthday... and he just kept arguing with us saying that it was dad's birthday (Shaun turned XX earlier this month and apparently you can only have one birthday per month). Maybe it's just going to have to be a work in progress. That said however, he LOVED decorating the tree. And once it was all finished, we turned off the living room lights and looked at the tree all lit up- he ran and jumped into Shaun's lap and said, "This is going to be the best Christmas EVER!" I have to laugh- don't you have to be claymation to say something like that? It's been fun though and even though Christmas isn't even here yet- I'm already sad that it will be over in a few weeks. There is just something that is so incredible about this time of year. It's about family and about Christ and unfortunately it just isn't a feeling that you can really recreate throughout the rest of the year. Maybe that's why it means so much to me.