Austen Learns Holiday Traditions

We are having a blast this Xmas sharing in the holiday traditions with Austen who is almost three. He loved cutting down our Xmas tree and helping to decorate it. He likes to look at all the ornaments and is unusually gentle with them as he checks them all out.

He has also been watching holiday classics like Frosty and Rudolph. Frosty is definitely his favorite and he begs to watch it each night before bed. He's also singing holiday songs like Feliz Navidad (he's learning Spanish at school) and Frosty and Rudolph and Jingle Bells. We'll hear him playing in his room and then bust out into one of these songs. Of course he doesn't know all the refrains so it's often a repeat of the same line but his tune is good!

We've also been putting presents in Austen's stocking each week from Santa so Austen is having a blast checking out his stocking every day to see if Santa brought him anything. We told him that Santa comes down the chimney so the picture below is of him looking to see if he can see Santa (so cute!).

We can't wait to see him on Xmas morning and we're hoping the baby comes either today or tomorrow or waits until after Xmas so we can spend it with Austen.