Christmas Eve

The kids, well mainly Jonathan, Diana doesn't quite get it yet, were really excited about Christmas this year.  Jonathan's lego advent calendar helped him count down the days until Christmas.  I thought some sort of count down would be fun but after a few mornings of Jonathan walking up in the wee hours of the morning, i.e., before 5 am, I realized that he was a little too excited to open his legos.  Next year I will have to think of a different plan.  Jonathan's Christams list has been all over the board this year.  Last year, it was light sabres from day one, this year it was a bunch of different toys but the final and most often talked about was police legos.  Diana was fine with Santa from a far but as soon as you got her near him, forget it!  She did finally learn how to say "Ho Ho Ho" when asked what does Santa say?  The kids were very well behaved at church for Christmas Eve mass.  Jonathan sat in between GB & Grandpa Weeks and I think he enjoyed his special time with them.  GB walked him up to the front of the church after mass to see baby Jesus in the manager.  Diana was with me and her adorbale red sparkly shoes tore snags and one hole in my nylons.  Oh well, she looked cute!  At one point she did drop her pacifier and I couldn't find it so I said sorry Diana, it's gone.  She kept looking for it and believe it or not she eventually found it half way down the pew and she was trying to make her way through about 6 younger girls to get it.  She was very proud of herself when she finally got it back.  She also shared her books with a little boy behind us.  I brought about 10 books for her and the poor mom behind us only brought one for her boy.  Diana loves books!  After mass we came home and Kyle, Amanda and Natalie joined us all for dinner.  It was fun having everyone together and watching the kids together.