I just set up our fake Christmas tree in the living room. It’s fake because someone in the family has allergies and asthma. Anyway, I set thing up and when I was finishing up Finny noticed. He came running over, “It’s a Cwismas twee! It’s a Cwismas twee! It’s a Cwismas tree!”
Then he stopped, with a look of doubt crossing his face.
He looked at the top.
He pointed.
“Where’s da stah?”
Keep in mind that he is about to turn three, so he doesn’t remember last year’s Christmas tree. But he’s learned about them anyway, and he knows that there are supposed to have a star on top.
Kids are so cute.
NO STAH NO PEACE! 🙂
that’s awesome.
I bought my tree yesterday, a real one. I was reluctant to do so: I’m not a Christian, and I’ve never really cottoned to the rank consumerism the holiday has come to mean for the vast majority of Americans, but I’ve always deferred to my ex, who insisted.
But with Sam on the way in just a couple of days, I decided to suck it up, buy the tree, and make it look like Christmas around here. What does it hurt? And besides, when the holiday over, I’ll take the tree to the Fairmount Park recycling center to be mulched or composted. Heck, maybe ‘ll even save the pine needles for my tomatoes and eggplants later this summer
Adorable! He’s going to have such a great Christmas: he’s at a wonderful age. I’m sure he’ll get tons of attention and toys. 🙂
Our Christmas will be bittersweet. My dad is dying of cancer and we’re just going to make the best of a bad situation. Fortunately, my brother and sister could come home to see him and he’ll feel so much better surrounded by all of us.
My middle son comes home; he’s working Habitat for Humanity in Charlotte and we can’t wait to see him again. It’s going to be a very emotional week.
I’m very sorry about your beloved pet. The holidays are a tough time to deal with any illness in the family, canine or human.
Booman, it’s my dad, not my dog. 😉
Be sure and take tons of pictures of Finn. He’ll be driving before you know it!
Oops. That’s what I get for not using my reading glasses. My sincere apologies, and condolences.
I need to hear stories like this right now.
Yes, please!!! We need some serious smiley stuff right now!!
Don’t let Finny catch you putting gifts under that tree. Kids are very curious and notice the little things in life. I speak from experience since I secretly waited up for Santa one Christmas Eve, but caught my parents with the gifts. Ruined some of the fun after that!
Very Sweet. I hope you have a great holiday with them. I just bought some books to read to my just-turned 4 and soon to be 6-year old. My daughter was explaining to me yesterday that she needed some “hop-scotch tape” for a “pwoject.” The other day she was working on a “cowal weath” (corral wreath). But my all-time favorite was when she told her mom she needed a bath, and when my wife asked why, she replied, “My butt stinks.”
My favorite has to do with the iPad. He likes to use the iPad, but it upsets him when the battery runs out.
We would explain that it was out of juice.
Of course, when you plug in the iPad, after a few moments, the Apple logo shows up, indicating that in now has some power.
So, now when the iPad runs out of battery life, Finny says “It needs Apple Juice.”
And when the Apple logo appears, he points excitedly and says, “It has apple juice! It has apple juice.”
Also, he just told me that it is Wennessday. I asked if he learned that at school and he said, “Yes.”
OMG, How funny! He sounds like a very smart little boy!
Here’s your warning, and I hope you listen.
WHen you turn your back, he is going to try to pour juice on the iPad.
You heard it here first. iPads do not like apple juice. Better make it very clear that it is ELECTRIC JUICE, NOT JUICE that is needed.
Awesome. If you’re at all interested in language, rhetoric or language development, it is REALLY fun watching what kids do. For example, my son, over-generalizing the way kids do when they’re learning a language, invented I amn’t in place of I’m not. It makes sense because they aren’t, we aren’t she isn’t, and so on. Then my daughter learned it from him, and finally I had to break it to him that it wasn’t correct, to which he responded, “Yes it is.”
A question I’ve been asking for decades and have yet to find one to buy.
At least he was asking about where the star was, not where his stash was. 🙂