Merry Christmas from Josiah

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He loved wearing his “deer hat” when we joined our MOPS group to carol at local nursing homes. Josiah sang along, got overly excited, and made up songs as he ran around in circles. Sad you missed it?

These are some of Josiah’s favorite things about Christmas, in no particular order:
-Christmas lights on houses, especially if you have light-up deer, a huge blow-up bear, or some other really large cut outs in your yard.

-Our Christmas tree and the ornaments. He often asks me to sit with him on the couch and “watch tree” or “watch bear on tree”, which is kind of like a game of “I spy” pointing out things on the tree.

-The Christmas story. Every night, we are doing a little advent reading and putting stickers on a nativity scene as we read more about the Christmas story. He loves it, and begs us to read it again each night. We also read the story from a book he has, along with his Bible story book. If you ask him what the angel said to the shepherds, he shouts, “BIG news!” and then all the angels together said, “Glory!” It’s really cute, and I must get it on video. I found a nativity set for him to play with made of little stuffed people and animals. He likes to show the wise men his toys and give baby Jesus a drink from his sippy cup.

-Cookies. Yesterday a friend gave us a plate of Christmas cookies and handed them to Josiah instead of me. Big mistake.

-Christmas photo cards. We have gotten a lot of these this year, full of pictures of babies and cute kids. I strung them up on a ribbon in the kitchen and Josiah loves to sit in front of it and name all the kids. Even if he’s never met your child, he probably knows their name based on their picture! He often shares crackers with the ones on the lower end.

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2 Responses to “Merry Christmas from Josiah”

  1. Julia says:

    LOVE the ribbon idea! I was trying to figure out how to display the photo cards, we have so many I don’t know what to do with them. I am copying you!!! :)

  2. Corrie says:

    I love that…”he often shares crackers with the ones on the lower end.” Aren’t kids great?!