Looking forward to baby Jesus

It's been a fun advent season with Lucy; I've enjoyed sharing her excitement and anticipation of celebrating baby Jesus coming. At dinner we light the candles in our advent wreath and sing a hymn or two (when I remember).

We've also been hanging an angel ornament every day (from a book my mom gave me) and opening a window on our advent calendar, as we look forward to baby Jesus coming. Lucy loves hanging the angels, and throughout the rest of the day she'll periodically ask, "more angels?". I can now ask her when she'll hang more and she says "morrow." She also loves the Playmobil nativity setmy mom got her. She mostly likes taking off all their robes and hats, but also likes giving the presents from the wise men to the baby Jesus, and bringing the angel to greet the angel ornaments we've hung on the bookshelf.


Another fun adventure was going to pick out the Christmas tree and decorating it. Lucy loved hanging up ornaments, as you can see in the second picture below.

Here is our beautiful tree with its motley crew of ornaments- I love all the history that they reflect (you can see a Dartmouth sweater ornament that one of my friends knit for me in the top middle, a bit down and to the right is our tagine pot favor from our wedding, and straight below the sweater farther down is a triangle-shaped painting of the church where we and my grandparents were married). Grandma Judy also bequeathed us a number of beautiful craft ornaments that she had made and collected over the years- lots of them are soft and are hung lower-down where Lucy can touch them.

We all had another bout of 2-week colds in December, and Lucy came down with another one last weekend (her worst ever- she slept for 1-2 hours on my lap in front of the tv each day, which she has never done). But in the midst of that we've been able to enjoy some snow! Lucy and I made an indoor snowman after the first storm.

And here we are outside, before making snow angels.

We just got more snow on Sunday, so it's quite beautiful outside. There's a large heap of snow accumulating at the edge of our condo parking lot, which should be perfect for sledding with Lucy, once she's back to her usual self.