Christmas with a 2 Year-Old

The terrible two's are talked about a lot,  oft times with good reason I must admit.  But a two year old at Christmas is a dream.  This Christmas was sooo perfect.  All leading up to Christmas we were able to do so many fun holiday things and Luke just got the wonder of the thing we were doing.  He loved seeing Santa, but didn't wonder why he wasn't bringing him presents.   He loved driving through the lights, he loved cutting the countdown Christmas chain, making pretzels for the neighbors.   He loved taking the neighbors the little pretzel bags, he would say Merry Christmas, then turn to me and say I'm Santa, I have big hands.  Made Wassail.  We made a manger for baby Jesus and filled it with straw when we did nice things.  Read Christmas books everyday, became Frosty, reindeer, santa.  Sang Christmas songs...mostly just Rudolf.  Just such simple simple things and it was enough.  I loved it! 

He came down Crismas morning and just stopped and said....Santa came.  We had a kitchen there for him unwrapped.  He just played and played with that.  I had all the little accessories individually wrapped up inside it.  But he didn't care to unwrap any presents he just wanted to play with what he had it was so fun.  Of course it didn't last forever,  he did get the idea after going to house after house he started to ask for presents.  But Christmas morning at our own house was so sweet.  This was the first time we have done it on our own.  The timing was perfect, it was so sweet to be together just our family.   And then go spen time with our extended families was perfect.