Dear Henry,
You are surprising me with how tuned into Christmas you are this year… you are so excited! I didn’t expect you to grasp the concept of Santa Claus and Christmas trees quite yet, but it’s just about all you talk about. Yes TALK about. I love it! You have started referring to anything Christmas as “ho”… that applies to Santa, Christmas, or ho ho ho. One of the three things you could say last year this time was “ho, ho, ho” (other two being mama and dada). It’s interesting because you are having a hard time with that this year. We are getting just the one “ho”. That’s apraxia for you, I guess.
You love all of the lit up trees in the neighborhood and you now call them ” ho tee” for “Christmas tree” . If you even see a triangle shape anywhere, including your sandwich, it is now a ho tee. We are going to cut our tree down again this year and we will probably go this Saturday. Fingers crossed that you will enjoy it more this year than last year. At least I know you will ooh and ahh and appreciate our ho tee once it’s all decorated.
We took you to Mohegan Sun tonight because they unveiled their 24 ft gingerbread house and Santa was there too. You had never been there before and you absolutely loved it…the lights, the music, the people! You didn’t want to leave! You danced and skipped and entertained everyone. You even sat on Santa’s lap and gave us one of your signature “cheese” smiles. You are such a ham! We have so many fun events coming up the next few weeks and I’m excited to see that you are at an age where you can really enjoy them and participate. Your mom loves Christmas so maybe some of my excitement is rubbing off on you.
On a non-holiday note, you also had your very first piece of pizza tonight which you ate in your typical way…picking any dot of anything off of every component and eating the ingredients separately. Sigh. I can’t wait until one day when you have your perfect bite of something, when you get all the flavors together at one time. At least you are eating, I know some toddlers don’t eat much at all!
Love you buddy,
Mommy
