Christmas!

We had a really nice Christmas this year. It was so fun watching Myles open presents and be excited about everything. Both of the boys got well spoiled by Grandparents and Aunties and Uncles. Well, we all did :) Danny's family came down from Oregon so we spent Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas Day with Danny's. It was nice to get to spend time with both of our families.
We got Myles a little bounce house for Christmas (not sure what I was thinking, it doesn't fit anywhere in our house!) We thought he would run out and want to jump on it, but he said "No, I want to open my presents first." Haha!
There were two major highlights for me this Christmas. The first was a few weeks ago. I had been waiting for the right time to tell Myles about the reason that we celebrate Christmas. We had gone to look at Christmas lights and had seen a nativity scene which he knew included baby Jesus. At lunch the next day he said "I saw Jesus last night. Who is Jesus Mommy?" It was a cute innocent moment as we read the nativity story and i explained it all, and he looked at me intently and listened as I read. And then after i was done, he said "let me tell YOU a story, Mommy...." and proceeded to read me three stories in a row with the same enthusiastic voice I had just used. It was priceless.
The second was my gift from Danny. We had gone to New York at the beginning of the month and while we were there we managed to make it to The fifth avenue. I was very excited and really wanted to go to Tiffany&Co. Well, it was Sunday evening so by the time we made our way down fifth ave they were closed. We ran out of time and didn't get to go back.
Christmas morning the last present under the tree was for me. Inside was a little blue box tied with a white ribbon. I opened the box and there was a beautiful silver necklace with a medallion that is esentially four circles intertwined in the center. He told me that the four circles represented the four Men in my life; God, Danny, Myles and Nolan. (Special thanks to Lee for haulin' it all the way back to fifth ave from Jersey! It means a lot to me :)