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Email a FriendThanks for sharing. Your daughter sounds delightful. It gives me hope for what next Christmas might be like around here. My nearly 18-month-old doesn’t “get it” just yet. She’s a lot of fun, but also the cause of my Christmas decorations being placed very high up. We’ve made use of the mantle, china cabinet, and the top of the kitchen cabinetry in new and creative ways this year. I have a feeling they’re going to be like next Christmas season as well, since we’ll have a 2 1/2 year old and an 8 month old a year from now. (Daughter #2 is due during holy week.) Merry Christmas, and God bless!
Getting Ready
Christmas preparation with a toddler
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, December 19, 2008 5:36 PM
According to Camilla, we are giving her uncle a dress for Christmas.
Bryan ordered my brother-in-law’s gift online for pickup at a store at the mall, and he took Camilla along with him to get it. Since she is more verbal than she is discreet, he chose not to tell her the name of the fairly mundane piece of home-shop equipment he was buying, and instead told her that they were there to pick up a dress.
This was his idea of a joke, but in typical two-year-old style she has glommed onto it, and several times a day she mentions the dress we got her uncle for Christmas. Last night at dinner she actually told him about it, and seemed confused when we all laughed.
(I could have warned Bryan that Camilla would not easily forget about the “dress,” considering that she is obsessive about the baby Bible
I think we might be close to having to employ the duck decoy strategy.
Logistical difficulties notwithstanding, I am finding the Advent season with a toddler to be nothing short of delightful. Before Camilla has even settled into her booster seat at the dinner table she is reminding me to “light candles, Mama!” and she adores the “All-went calender” to the point that we, her parents, are starting to get a little tired of it. It’s a calendar with a Scripture verse under each door telling the Christmas story, and she insists that we read all the verses from the beginning, every night. Usually several times over. Come to think of it, it is probably time to get her a copy of Danielle’s favorite Christmas story book.
As you might imagine, Camilla is also delighted by the idea that we get each other presents to celebrate Baby Jesus’ birth. We’ll have thirteen people here opening gifts on Christmas day, which means there is going to be an enormous number of them under the tree. I can’t wait to see her face.
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