Elias and I are taking it easy today. We haven’t had a day just at home for a couple weeks now, and while we do have lots of errands that need to be done, I decided we’d put those off just to have some fun at home. We built Duplo houses and towers, pretended to make soup, had the dinosaur eat the Star Wars people, did laundry and dishes and swept the floors, sang the 12 days of Christmas book like 5 times, sang “Away in a Manger” about 50 times, danced and twirled to an old Bing Crosby cd I inherited from my Grandpa, and much more.
Elias coloring pregnant Mary.
We also did our advent activity for today. This evening, Elias will be going to Ama and Baba’s house for another practice sleepover. Nathan and I will be taking some more much needed time to clean out and prepare the house for another baby. So since Daddy couldn’t be there for our advent activity, we decided to make it a bit lower key today. I printed off some free advent coloring pages, and Elias got to color to his heart’s content. Mommy colored too.
We talked a lot about the advent wreath, and Elias was very interested in what each candle said.
One of the coloring pages I printed out had a picture of Mary still pregnant. Elias has gotten very good at identifying Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus. He can
Elias finished with the wreath, and is working on the doves.
recognize them in any artwork, sculpture, picture, etc whether they have faces or whatever their orientation. He likes pointing them out. In the picture I printed, he only saw Mary and a baby sheep (his words). He asked me where Joseph and baby Jesus were. So I went on trying to explain that baby Jesus was still inside his Mommy in that picture…just like his baby brother is still inside me.
Elias gave me a very weird look, and said, “Mary pregnant.”
“Yes!” I said, thinking he understood.
“Joseph pregnant too,” he added. “Baby Jesus come out in two months.”
So then I had to try to explain that Joseph was like Daddy and was in fact not pregnant…and just because our baby will come out in two months does not mean that all babies will. (My due date is exactly 2 months from today….ahhhhhh!)
It was fun just having some focused conversation with my son…even if what he said was a bit humorous.