Christmas Is Almost Here!

We announced at Thanksgiving that Bud is going to be a big brother in June! He's very excited, as are we, and will randomly mention the baby. A few weeks ago he said to his daddy, You have a baby in your tummy! We laughed and corrected him. He loves hearing the baby's heartbeat and even imitated it using his microphone that is hooked up to a keyboard.

Christmas is so much fun this year now that Bud knows what is going on. We had fun decorating the tree and he did a great job putting ornaments on the lower branches. It also helps when he is misbehaving to threaten no gifts at Christmas if he doesn't behave! That tactic works very well. We got him a Playmobil nativity set and he likes lining the people and animals up around the stable and recognizes Mary, Joseph, & Jesus in any nativity set. He also got an early gift from Grandma and Grandpa T. - a kitchen! He loves to play Emeril and cook but also enjoys doing the dishes. :-) Now when he wants to "help" us with the dishwasher we can just tell him to go play with his own dishwasher. He knows the words to Jingle Bells and his favorite song to hear on the radio is Frosty the Snowman. He even helped build his first snowman at Louise's house last week.

Louise is having a Christmas party for the kids today so Bud took gifts for his friends. It will be fun to hear all about it. Bud loves going to her house and loves his friends. He's starting to play with the kids more now instead of just along side them. He is starting to ask us to come play with him, like he'll say, Come play with my kitchen with me.

Louise has all of next week off but luckily Aunt Kara will be around to watch Bud the three days that we have to work. Colin will be with them those days, too, so Kara will be very busy playing with the two boys! It will be nice for us to have some time to ourselves for a few days. For New Year's we're going to Milwaukee to visit Joe and Becky and celebrate Christmas with my side of the family. We're looking forward to the trip and seeing their new house!

Will write more after Christmas!
K :-D