Christmas 2011

Ahoy, Christmas!

The Christmas pictures are uploaded!  Over the next few days I will try and blog some of the highlights of our time with family in DFW.

I have to say it was really incredible seeing this Christmas through Dexter and Maxwell's eyes.  Granted, Maxwell slept through most of the gift exchanges, but having two little ones along this year made it a much sweeter (and hectic!) time for us.  Dexter had a million questions.  Favorite questions:

• Are these gifts for Jesus?
• What are we giving to Jesus for his birthday?
• Are we bringing gifts like the wise men in the Very First Noel? 
• Are we travelling afar?

One of the best things we saw as well was Dexter's excitement to give other's gifts too.  He wanted people to know he brought them a gift as soon as we got where we were going. 

He also loved to choose things this trip.  Since we had to run to the doctor's the day we left for DFW (oh yes...that was fun!) for an ear infection, he was on medication the whole time we were gone.  To get him to take it we offered him one candy (ok, we bribed him, but that's life guys).  We offered him a candy from a bag of identical candies and he would look at it and go, "Hmmm...which one do YOU want Mommy?"  And would wait till I chose one.  Then he would pick one after much thought.  It was so cute.  I have no idea what criteria he used to decide which candy was the winner, but he sure put lots of thought into it!

Trains!

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Is That a Pirate, Mommy?

Well, perhaps we have watched too much Veggie Tales recently, or maybe Dexter is entering that age of, "Kids say the darnedest things," but yesterday was a doozy!  We went to HEB after dinner (not our usual time, but after being out of town, we really had nothing to eat), and boy was I glad Sander was there.  We were making our way down the aisles when all of a sudden Dexter starts yelling, with a look of pure glee on his face, "THAT'S A PIRATE IN HERE! THAT'S A PIRATE IN HERE!"  Thankfully, Sander picked him up quickly and took our son, who was still yelling in glee, to the next aisle.  The "pirate" in question, thankfully was far enough up the aisle he didn't realize what Dexter was saying.

Yes, the man mistakenly called a pirate did have a head scarf and facial hair, but he also had a whoooole lot of tattoos - not quite what you see on the Veggie Tale version of a pirate. 

Dexter kept talking about the "pirate" all night.  I think he was just so excited to finally see one in person. 

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