Growing up Christmas Eve was always one of my favorite days of the year, even more than Christmas day. Ben and I wanted to start some new traditions for our little family, especially now that we have our little guy. We also wanted to take advantage of living on this beautiful island at Christmas. Yesterday afternoon we started off our celebrating with some time at the pool. Chase loves playing in the water now, especially when he has two adults there to play with him.
As we were leaving to go to the pool Chase crawled to the closet and pulled out his little shoes and handed them to me. Apparently he wanted to be in style for the pool. I think he looks just adorable!
My family's Christmas Eve tradition is to eat soup in bread bowls on the fancy dishes by candlelight. I made bread bowls from scratch (I was super proud of myself) and butternut squash soup. We ate by our one candle light (it is actually a citronella candle- no mosquitos at our Christmas Eve dinner) and we used one of our lanterns because the one candle wasn't quite light enough for the baby to be able to see his food.
After dinner we let Chase open one present, his Christmas jammies! He was adorable trying to unwrap his presents. I showed him what to do by tearing off a piece. He was more concerned with trying to put the torn piece back on the present. Eventually we got the whole thing unwrapped and he looked just darling in these little jammies.
We tried to read Luke 2 and show Chase the story with his little Nativity finger puppets my mom sent. Mostly he grabbed two of the wiseman and took off for the trash can. He often feels like the wisemen need a time out. Hopefully by next year Chase will get the Christmas story a little better:)
After we put Chase to bed we watched The Muppet Christmas Carol (thanks Mom!), one of my favorite Christmas movies ever! It was a lovely Christmas Eve- our first as a family of three!
As we were leaving to go to the pool Chase crawled to the closet and pulled out his little shoes and handed them to me. Apparently he wanted to be in style for the pool. I think he looks just adorable!
My family's Christmas Eve tradition is to eat soup in bread bowls on the fancy dishes by candlelight. I made bread bowls from scratch (I was super proud of myself) and butternut squash soup. We ate by our one candle light (it is actually a citronella candle- no mosquitos at our Christmas Eve dinner) and we used one of our lanterns because the one candle wasn't quite light enough for the baby to be able to see his food.
After dinner we let Chase open one present, his Christmas jammies! He was adorable trying to unwrap his presents. I showed him what to do by tearing off a piece. He was more concerned with trying to put the torn piece back on the present. Eventually we got the whole thing unwrapped and he looked just darling in these little jammies.
We tried to read Luke 2 and show Chase the story with his little Nativity finger puppets my mom sent. Mostly he grabbed two of the wiseman and took off for the trash can. He often feels like the wisemen need a time out. Hopefully by next year Chase will get the Christmas story a little better:)
After we put Chase to bed we watched The Muppet Christmas Carol (thanks Mom!), one of my favorite Christmas movies ever! It was a lovely Christmas Eve- our first as a family of three!
Haha, I love Ben's thumbs up pose with the soup/bread bowl (which looks delish). We read Luke 2 with our Fisher Price Nativity, but Will just kept sticking the angel on top of the stable which triggers the music. Oh well :). It sounds like you guys had a lovely tropical Christmas Eve!
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