But that in no way diluted our Christmas celebrations!! On Christmas Eve, we continued our annual German tradition of Bunte Teller. This tradition (a personal favorite), involves us distributing international chocolates, home baked Christmas cookies, marzipan and more to each family member. This plate of divine delectables is meant to last you at least until New Year's day - however I have yet to make it more than 3 or 4 days!
Our church has two services on Christmas Eve which celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. We usually attend the first service at 5pm. The beauty of this is that it leaves our Christmas Day open, and allows us to relax, open presents, and eat copious amounts of Christmas foods! After the Christmas Eve service, we came home, lit a fire and enjoyed each other's company - before retiring for the night and allowing Santa to come and do his thing :P
I was awoken on Christmas Day by Nathan who jumped on my bed shouting, "Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!" That was the start of a leisurely morning for us. Nathan, as you can imagine, was highly entertaining as he liberated his new toys from their wrappings. He kept on saying, after opening present after present, "Just what I always wanted!" That was hysterical, and we are not sure where he picked up that little phrase. He most likely remembered my mom saying that when she we opened our presents with her in 2007!
Nathan got a multitude of presents, all of which he loved. I even get to play with a few of the presents which can become slightly addictive :)
On Saturday, North East Ohio was blessed with unseasonably warm weather! Temperatures of 65F (17C) saw many people re-emerge from their houses to experience the outdoors. We too, took advantage of the weather, and Gabi and I drove Nathan to a local playground! Nathan just loved being able to run around again, go down slides and climbing up hills! We also took his bicycle along and had an enjoyable walk behind him along the bicycle/running track!
The lovely warm weather left Cleveland as quickly as it arrived, and soon the temperatures were diving back down to acceptable levels for the end of December.
For those of you (Robin) who need to see pictures of Joshua, here are a couple of him at 5 weeks old!
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Yay! I was getting worried there would be no pictures as I was reading this week's post... thrilled to see them at the end. :) Hopefully we'll get to see the REAL Joshua sometime this week! Talk to you soon!
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