OUR CHRISTMAS.

This was Kurt's second Christmas which is pretty hard for me to beleive that he has already experience 2 Halloween's, 2 Thanksgiving's, and now 2 Christmas'.  I mean how can we already be in his second year of life?  That aside it was fun to see him start to get excited for all the happiness the holiday's bring.  Right after Thanksgiving we were visited by an elf which this little man loved coming downstairs each morning and finding.  Sometimes he would forget then he'd be eating his breakfast and all of a sudden spot it and point saying "efffff!" "efffff!".  He also learned to say "ho ho ho" at anything  or one looking remotely like santa.  He yells "hey!" at the right point when we sing jingle bells and has gained a certain affinity for any kind of "cooookeee".  I was pretty amazed to see how good he was with the tree, I was pretty certain that the bottom half of our tree would be ornament free this year.  I think the key was slowly decorating it, first we put up the tree bare and there was a lot of novelty in "blowing" the lights out.  Then a few days later I took out the ornaments and he watched me gently unwrap each one from the tissue while he stood over my shoulder and said "oooooooo" (I think he understood this was something special).  There were three ornaments that he was allowed to touch they were interactive and played music so we put them on the bottom of the tree where he could reach and he left the rest alone.  He would go up to "his" three ornaments push that little button and do a little dance.  Speaking of dancing...  this child has developed some sweet moves this holiday season between all the Christmas music and musical decorations.  We had quite a bit of foot stompin, hip swayin, and head bobbin around here... it was pretty great to watch his little body feel the music. (I have to upload a video)  We didn't really put a lot of emphasis on the presents.  He did get a few things from Santa (there were maybe a few things he already had were under the tree too) and he had a lot of fun emptying his stocking but pretty much just wanted us to read him his books on Christmas morning.  That being said he was spoiled silly from all our friends and family.  Overall it was such a wonderful Holiday and I look forward to do it all again next year!!!