Joy to the World

And what a Joy he is in our world. This son of ours amazes us every single day with his funny sayings, cute faces, and ever growing knowledge of the world around him.

Last night we were watching Shrek the Halls as a family before bedtime. Shawn has the pop up book that goes with the movie and he was leafing through it as the movie played. One of the pages has an advent calendar on it and he was reading off some of the numbers in the teens. "Seventeen. Fourteen. Eighteen." He came across 11 and hesitated. Glancing over at me with a puzzled look, he stated "One Teen." Now that is smart logic for a 2 year old who momentarily forgot the name "eleven."

Tonight, Shawn was coloring a few pages of an alphabet book in his high chair as I was giving Landon his bed time bottle. I took Landon out into the kitchen to give Shawn a goodnight kiss and as their faces met huge strings of drool landed on Shawn's nose and mouth. A look of dread came over his poor little face. "Tissue for the dribble spit." he says to me in disgust. See, Daddy calls Landon "Dribble Spit" because he is by far one of the drooliest children we've ever seen. Poor Shawn wanted something to wipe up all that "dribble spit" that was coating a good portion of his face.

It is my wish that everyone has joy in their worlds... joy like our sons bring to us.

Playing his musical Christmas toys to GiGi on the phone.