N love Christmas!

I asked the kids to help me put back our nativity advent calendar, and N was so sad. She just kept saying, "But I love Christmas season. I don't want it to be over." I love the N loves Christmas so much because it's also my favorite holiday of the year. I'm even more grateful that when she thinks of Christmas, that getting lots of presents isn't the reason why she loves it. She loves the music and enjoys all of the traditions that we do to make it a memorable time of year, so that Jesus' birth will be marked with specialness.

Ever since she was little, we played The Nutcracker music for her, and she loved it from the moment she first heard it. This year, she requested The Nutcracker daily, and couldn't resist putting on her ballet slippers to dance. My brother wanted to bless her this year with seeing the ballet at a local theatre, so N, myself, and my mom went together just after Christmas. She is even more enthralled with everything Nutcracker than before. During intermission, my mom bought her a real nutcracker that the theatre was selling. She had asked for one since a couple of years ago, but I was never able to find one that we liked. The night we came home with it, she was putting it to sleep in her baby crib. The next morning she woke up and brought him down for breakfast, setting him right beside her plate, and even giving him "food" to eat.



N loves singing too, and instead of singing the usual gospel song before bedtime, we spent the month singing Christmas carols. I had planned on singing a different one every couple of days, so that she could learn several, but the first night I remembered how much she loved hearing me sing "Silent Night" in Korean. So I decided to teach her. She learned it in a matter of a couple of nights of singing it before bed. After learning it, she wanted to sing it every night, so we didn't get through many other carols. She enjoyed learning the Korean so much, we started working on "Angels We Have Heard on High" in Korean, since that's been her favorite carol so far. She's pretty much learned it, although she needs a few reminders.

Can't wait for Christmas next year!