Beginning to Look Like Christmas

Last weekend Andrew was at a conference in Boston and Jonah and I were home alone. That's right, I was a "single parent" for 4 days. Let me tell you... I do not envy those who have to raise a child like that all the time! Jonah was no worse behaved or anything, but there was very little downtime for me to regroup (hence the lack of a blog about this experience as it was actually going on). I tried to keep us busy and we did a lot of stuff with one of my girlfriends here, but nothing compares to our little family being together. Andrew missed Jonah a lot too and gobbled up his time with him for days afterward (Thanksgiving pun intended). After being separated it was especially nice to have a long weekend for Thanksgiving. We took the opportunity to make a semi-traditional dinner. (There were no where near as many leftovers as a full blown traditional dinner.) I got a little shopping done sans husband and baby on Black Friday. (I love sales, but I love sleep more, so I didn't get to shopping til about 9am.) Then on Saturday we decorated our tree and put up Jonah's first nativity set! (Thank you Nana and Papa)

We started with the tree and fell into our traditional roles: Andrew does the lights and I do the ornaments. This year Jonah helped a bit with both jobs. Follow Jonah's natural progression whle decorating the tree. Fascination, distraction, eating.*

*No babies were harmed while decorating.

Later on we set up the nativity in his room so he can see it whenever he wakes up from his naps. We tried to explain the different people to him, but he was really more concerned with making sure he tasted each of their faces. Good thing it's made for babies. (I'm pretty sure that the good people of Fisher Price knew that face mauling would be a possibility for their product.)

Even though Jonah doesn't really understand anything about Christmas yet, it was fun for us to include him in the festivities and get a little glimpse of what it will be like from here on out. Super fun!!