Christmas Decorating

Last week, I decided on a whim to pull out our nativity scenes so we could start teaching Samuel about Christmas. Given that he loves animals right now, it is no surprise that he immediately fell in love with the animals in the nativity scene. He set all the characters in the stables, and then promptly unloaded them so he could play with them. He carried them all around, gathered the babies from the sets together, put them all back, showed them to Grandma and told her "stories" about the characters. It was really cute. Then we pulled out some other decorations, including the advent candle holder, which completely fascinated the little dude. He couldn't figure out what to make of that. He did, however, figure out that the candle holders fit nicely on his nose. Funny. Here are a couple of pictures.

Snow Day!

We got our first snow last week, so I raced around town to find Samuel snow boots and pants so we could play outside. He was so little the last time we had snow that he doesn't remember it at all.

From the morning of the snow, he was totally focused on this strange white stuff all over the ground. He kept saying, "no-s" because he couldn't get the "s" sound placed right. By the time I got him from daycare, he had figured it out and was saying "snow" over and over. Completely interested.

So, we went home and got our snow gear to go out and play. He immediately plopped down in the snow and started tasting it. That was by-far the favorite snow activity. We trudged along in the snow and tried making a snow angel, but inevitably, he just kept sitting down to eat snow. Good thing we have no pets! Here are a couple pictures of him in the snow.