Getting "Merried"

The holidays are officially underway around here...the tree is up, the elf is out, and the festivities have begun.

I have a new advent calendar this year so I thought I would try putting some type of "activity" and a bible verse in for each day instead of treats.  So far it has gone well and Nate has been excited to pull his card out each day (a little tricky to come up with 24 activities but surprisingly easier than remembering to move Elfie everyday).

So the first "activity" was Family Night - Nate was very excited (not that we don't do it often, but I guess actually calling it "Family Night" made it sound more exciting!) and as we were talking about what we were going to do he says "Yeah, we are going to get married!".  I was confused as to why his mind went there so I just gave some lame motherly speech about how daddy and mommy were already married and had him and his brother because we loved each other so much...blah blah...he looked at me kinda blankly and let me talk.

So we had a nice evening of watching Rudolph while having a Pizza Picnic in the living room and drinking hot chocolate and decorating the Tree.  I wish I could have taken pictures but I was a little busy cursing at our strands of lights who finally decided they had had enough....but Matthew found a Santa hat and was practically skipping around the tree saying "I am Santa ho ho ho Mewwy Cwismas!".  He picks up an ornament, puts it on the tree and starts exclaiming "I did it Mommy!  I mewwied the tree!"  Light bulb!  They thought "getting married" meant being Merry! No wonder Nate was not interested in my speech about love and families!

The kids had so much fun going through all of the ornaments and rediscovering all of the decorations.  Now if only Nate could convince Michael to put lights up outside....I think he is slowly breaking him down. :)