Happy Birthday Jesus!

We wrapped up Christmas day with a birthday party for Jesus. As you can see in this picture, Griffin didn't have any patience for singing 'happy birthday' or for taking a quick picture. He wanted cake NOW!

We've been talking a lot about the true meaning of Christmas this month. I want to be sure that the boys understand what we're celebrating in the midst of all of the hoopla of Santa. One day we were playing 'school' and Miles told me that I had to teach them something. I grabbed the advent calendar and we put all of the ornaments on it while talking about the Christmas story. I asked the boys questions and they would race to answer. Miles answered most all of them first (questions like, who are Jesus' parents? what town was Jesus born in? what was he born in? etc..). I asked the question "why did God send Jesus to be born?" Neither had a quick answer for that one, so I gave them the answer. The next question (to see if they understood my answer) was "what do you have to do to go to heaven?" Noah was determined to answer this question first. He got a huge smile on his face, stood up, raised his hands in the air, and yelled, "DIE!" I burst out laughing...and decided I'll give him 1/2-credit. We'll keep working on it.

When I told the boys that we were going to have a birthday party on Christmas Day, they got really excited and started jumping around chanting, "cake, cake, cake!" I asked whose birthday it was and Miles said, "Jesus!" I said, "that's right. We're going to make a birthday cake for Jesus." Noah fell to the floor and started bawling. When I asked him what was wrong, he said, "I don't want Jesus to eat all the cake!" Now that would be a Christmas sight to see!