'Tis the season for late nights, too many sweets and getting the kids to be good by telling them Santa's checking his list! We've been going to our share of get-togethers over the past week and we still have a few more to go. This weekend we will be visiting Santa at a special breakfast at Micah's school. This is the first year that Micah has specifically requested to visit with Santa so we are trying to make that happen. We will be celebrating our Christmas at home this weekend since we will be in Wisconsin for the actual day and it's easier to do things that way than bring our gifts for each other up there an back. Micah's been asking me if Santa is "true," his way of asking if he's real. So far, I've been a little evasive. We don't push the Santa thing, but we have no problems with Santa at our house either. He's part of the Christmas magic. I usually just say something like, "Isn't it exciting to think about Santa?" And so far he's accepting that. At the downtown Christmas parade last week, Santa threw a whole handful of candy just at Micah! That's one of the perks of having a daddy who knows Santa personally (Santa is a full-white-bearded theatre professor from Henderson and one of Dan's colleagues in the area). We were talking about gifts and giving and getting them at Christmas. I started to explain the concept of spiritual gifts, like how God gives people abilities or things they are especially good at so that we can share those things with each other. I told him it was like a treasure inside of our hearts that we had to discover and that sometimes it took awhile for people to figure out what theirs is. We also talked about how sharing ourselves is a gift all by itself. Micah really wants to know what his gift is now. But after giving him some examples of the kinds of gifts people have, he decided that he'd like to have a beautiful singing voice, if he got to pick. I don't know if that wish will come true, but I do know that he does wonderful renditions of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and "Jesus Loves Me" that bring tears to my eyes. I'm pretty sure God thinks its pretty sweet too. Jacob's favorite song is "Wheels on the Bus." We found a video of some kids singing and doing the motions to this and he loves it, asking to watch is over and over..."Bus?" "Bus!" You can see him clapping after the performance in the photo above. So far we have managed to keep him from ingesting too many artificial pine needles and ornament glitter, but he does like to pull items off the tree. Good thing we tethered that baby to the wall!
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