Merry Christmas

 

What?

 



 

I'm not sure about this....

 

 

 

 

I decline to comment...Humph.

 

 

I think I'll snuggle my alpaca teddy bear instead, thank you very much!

 

 

 

Mighty Mouse perhaps did not appreciate the beauty of this holiday season as much as the rest of us, but he certainly has been a beautiful addition to our season. Being now the mommy of a baby boy has turned me into a puddle everytime I think about what we are really celebrating tonight - Jesus being born into our world as a baby....to die as a young man on a cross....so that we may not perish.  Yikes. In answer to the song's lyrics, "Mary, did you know?", I will say that I hope she did not.  There has been another song playing on our Christian station talking about Jesus' "tiny heart whose blood will save us", and it just undoes me everytime I hear it. Usually I have a tiny little boy's heart nestled close to mine at the time, and I cannot imagine.

 

Last week at Mike's work Christmas party, they showed a video. It was great. A really ridiculous man was trying to get totally "into" his role as Joseph in the live nativity. It was hilarious. He made a complete fool out of himself and was just generally goofy. At the end, though, just as he was going to go out to fulfill his "role", he glanced at his wife and young son and said, "I couldn't do it."  His confused wife asked him what he was talking about, thinking that surely he could "do" the part of Joseph after "practicing" for weeks! He stated again, "I couldn't do it" but then added, "I couldn't give up my son. I couldn't do it. The world would just be out of luck."

 

For sure.

 

The girls before Christmas Eve service.

 

 

We had help today in the form of a really nice lady from church who volunteered to go to the service with me and help out. With windchills far below zero, there's no way I could have taken these kiddos out, especially Mighty Mouse, without her along. I dropped them all at the door and parked; she carried my purse. Wow. I could hardly believe she volunteered to be with us; it was definitely an early Christmas present!

 

I could really get spoiled. For Miss Mouse's Christmas program day, I called some friends who rode with us and allowed me to drop them at the door with the kiddos, too.  Maybe doing everything by myself was a silly idea in the first place because this is really great.....

 

 

Mighty Mouse is getting a Christmas tooth. He enjoyed some much-needed respite from his teething for the first 30 minutes of the service.

 

Our sweet baby and our sweet not-so-babies.

 



 

She's a squirrel.

 



O Christmas Tree

An almost-sleeping Mighty Mouse by the Christmas tree.....It's so delicious, I can hardly go to bed tonight for staring at his picture (this is regardless of the fact that with his crib in our room I can stare at the real him all night!).

 



 

There's just something about babies and Christmas trees and lights all amidst the darkness of this time of year.

 

Miss Mouse wanted photo after photo in front of the tree. She has declared it the "most beautiful tree ever" but was sure to add that we "won't tell anyone ours is the most beautiful if we go to their house and their tree is nice, too". Yep, our six foot, artificial tree has really impressed this sweet mouse!

 

She's taken several pictures of the tree on her camera, as well....

 

 

And then there was Sunny.  Her Daddy had several captions for these pictures, but none of the captions were printable on my blog.  Suffice it to say, this is Sunny trying really, really hard not to touch the ornaments. Or the lights. Or the tree.

 

This is Sunny trying so hard because she knows she could tip it over on "Brother"....She told me tonight she does not like our "house fancy". Mike and I think we have a solution to be implemented in the morning. Hopefully it will help everyone in the house be able to succeed and enjoy this Christmas season - Mighty Mouse to not have a tree fall on him; Miss Mouse to have a Christmas tree; and Sunny to not feel like a continual failure because, really, who wants THAT feeling to be what she associates with the Christmas season!  We want her to gaze lovingly at pictures of her babies in front of a tree someday....without going into a post-traumatic episode of some sort!

 

I'll end with a disclaimer that the pictures of Mighty Mouse are mighty nice in color, but he was reclining on a very pink blanket which his Daddy thought should perhaps be eliminated from the photo. Not being talented enough for that, I chose the b&w option! "Real baby boys lay on pink", right? Or something like that!