January 23, 2012
January 20, 2012
Makenna Telling the Christmas Story
Better late than never.
All through the season of Advent, we as a family tried hard to make the time preparing for Christmas about Jesus.
We attempted this in several ways. Our Jesse Tree was a main way we did this but as you know we have young kiddos and a new story everyday even if they all center around God's big picture gets confusing for small kiddos.
Another way we tried to really drive home the importance of Christmas was by telling our kiddos the story of the first Christmas often. We did this by reading straight out of the Bible, reading the story out of our Jesus Storybook Bible, and reenacting the story with a nativity set.
Let me just say that with the current age of our kiddos the reenacting was by far the favorite. Within just a few times of telling the story this way Makenna decided to try to tell the Christmas Story herself. Also, both kids LOVED to play with the nativity set. As you can see in the video below Colin even gets involved at one point.
Currently the nativity set is still not packed away with all the other Christmas decor. Mostly because the kiddos love playing with it so much.
So all that said here is a video of Makenna's take at the age of 3 on the story of Jesus birth.
All through the season of Advent, we as a family tried hard to make the time preparing for Christmas about Jesus.
We attempted this in several ways. Our Jesse Tree was a main way we did this but as you know we have young kiddos and a new story everyday even if they all center around God's big picture gets confusing for small kiddos.
Another way we tried to really drive home the importance of Christmas was by telling our kiddos the story of the first Christmas often. We did this by reading straight out of the Bible, reading the story out of our Jesus Storybook Bible, and reenacting the story with a nativity set.
Let me just say that with the current age of our kiddos the reenacting was by far the favorite. Within just a few times of telling the story this way Makenna decided to try to tell the Christmas Story herself. Also, both kids LOVED to play with the nativity set. As you can see in the video below Colin even gets involved at one point.
Currently the nativity set is still not packed away with all the other Christmas decor. Mostly because the kiddos love playing with it so much.
So all that said here is a video of Makenna's take at the age of 3 on the story of Jesus birth.
Disclaimer: The white card Makenna is using has a picture of an angel on it. She had to use this because we somehow misplaced the angel to the nativity set. Also, please ignore my constant questions...I just wanted to encourage Makenna and see how much she remembered about the story.
January 19, 2012
Snow
Finally we got enough snow for the kiddos to enjoy.
It doesn't take much because as you can tell by the pictures there is hardly enough snow to cover the driveway. But I guess that says a ton about expectations. Makenna and Colin didn't expect any snow so when there was some to help Daddy shovel they were excited.
We even broke out a sled to let the kiddos take a couple passes down the street. Needless to say they had a blast.
For those of you who noticed....Yep our neighbors got tee-peed....in January.
It doesn't take much because as you can tell by the pictures there is hardly enough snow to cover the driveway. But I guess that says a ton about expectations. Makenna and Colin didn't expect any snow so when there was some to help Daddy shovel they were excited.
We even broke out a sled to let the kiddos take a couple passes down the street. Needless to say they had a blast.
For those of you who noticed....Yep our neighbors got tee-peed....in January.
January 18, 2012
January 17, 2012
Pregnancy Number 3 : The Birth Day
I guess the big news right now is that a day has been chosen for Baby 3 to be born. It is kinda funny because most of the time you think that when you are going to have a c-section you will get to pick the day your baby will be born.
But not the case for the Willises. Our doctor picked our baby's birthday for us. I know that if we had a major conflict with the day our OB would have changed the day but we really don't. It wouldn't have been my first choice because our niece will have the same birthday. No big deal though. It will make it easy to remember for Grandma Janelle.
So that brings us to the announcing of the day.......
That is unless baby 3 decides to make his/her grand appearance sooner.
But not the case for the Willises. Our doctor picked our baby's birthday for us. I know that if we had a major conflict with the day our OB would have changed the day but we really don't. It wouldn't have been my first choice because our niece will have the same birthday. No big deal though. It will make it easy to remember for Grandma Janelle.
So that brings us to the announcing of the day.......
MARCH 26, 2012
That is unless baby 3 decides to make his/her grand appearance sooner.
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