Well, not much to update on Eve except that she just gets lugged around everywhere and is so great. She's so close to crawling, but I remember John was so close to crawling for a very long time...so I'm hoping for the same!!
John is really getting into Christmas, but still doesn't quite know what's coming, I don't think. Anyway, last Friday I went out with the girls, so John and Buck had a fun Man's night (Eve slept the whole time). Buck called me in a panic shortly after I left because he had promised John they'd watch "Cars" and the DVD was in my car. Oops! He appeased him with Thomas, then put him to bed. Just after he put John in bed, Buck realized that Frosty the Snowman was on. John didn't even know who Frosty was, but for some reason has been obsessed with him. So, Buck went and got him out of bed and they watched Frosty. It's funny now because we ask John what does Frosty say and he knows it's "Happy Birthday!".
Sunday night we went to Ft. Inn. They have carriage rides through downtown. John really enjoyed it for 5 or 10 minutes, and enjoyed looking at the lights, but by the end of the ride he was flipping over the benches and a little stir crazy. We also got to see Santa and get their picture with him. We had been talking it up all day with John. He was excited he was going to see Santa and knew he was going to sit on his lap. Santa was sitting outside in a sleigh. Eve was happy as could be and grinning like crazy. I think John was getting sleepy, and he wasn't crazy about it when the time came to sit with him. I told him Santa would give him a candy cane...'nough said. John hopped right up next to him. Funny what he'll do for candy. He stood near Santa, but we couldn't really get him to lean in close or look at the camera. Oh well, at least he wasn't screaming like last year. After that we went to Simpsonville Methodist for Journey to the Manger. They setup a drive-through presentation of the Christmas story. They have verses and people representing the prophesy in Isaiah, Gabriel, Elizabeth, the Angels and Shepherds, and the journey to Bethlehem. Around the corner, you drive through the Bethlehem city gates and see all sorts of things in the town-Roman guards on horses, the Temple, people selling things, the innkeeper yelling "there's no room in the inn", and at the end is the manger. We actually participated when John was a baby. I'll have to post a few of the pictures. It's a really neat thing, and they have the cross and empty tomb at the end. So, we drove through and told John the story as we went. I think he actually enjoyed it and maybe picked up on some of it; although, he's definitely more excited about presents and Santa.
Yesterday we got a package with gifts from Grandma and Grandpa Bucky. John watched me open the package and was so excited to see presents inside. I kept coaching him..."We're not going to open them until Christmas. We're not opening them today. When are we opening them?" "Right now!" "No. We're not opening them today. We're opening them on Christmas. Are we opening them today?" "YES!" "No"...you get the idea. I hid them upstairs.
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