Double Christmas

A trip to Nana and Papa's for early Christmas, then back to our house for actual Christmas with my mom meant Double Christmas celebrations for our family.

The cousins draw names and Andrew got Owen's name this year. With some suggestions from us, he chose to get him a garbage truck, complete with dumpster. He loved it and wanted to take it everywhere with him in the house for the rest of the time we were there. I had to hide it at nap and night so he didn't try to bring it into bed with him!

We headed back to our house on Sunday to meet up with my Mom for Christmas Eve. Todd's family's tradition was to open a present of new jammies on Christmas Eve - I love that and we decided to start that with Owen this year. He went off to bed without too much trouble since I don't think he really understood when we told him Santa was coming to visit in the night.

The next morning when he came downstairs and saw his BBQ set, he was so excited!

This Seat is Taken

We were sitting in the overflow section at church today and used our mini-hymnbooks since there were no big ones available - Owen was fascinated by them. They were just his size of course, and he spent about 20 minutes moving them from the chair beside me to the chair in front of us, then sitting up on the chair beside them, back down, hugging them to his chest to carry them back to the chair by me. The best part was when he would sit on his chair and 'read/sing from them' then look at us to see if we were watching!