This year, since Christopher is getting older, we really wanted to push that Christmas is about celebrating Jesus' birth and not Santa. We still did all the Santa stuff, but told him that we get presents b/c it's baby Jesus' birthday and he loves us so much that he wants to share his day with us. We made a birthday cake for baby Jesus and never cut into it, so we brought it home with us. Last night we lit a candle for each kid to blow out and sang happy birthday to baby Jesus.

Well, I guess all that talk about baby Jesus sunk in b/c last night when I was putting Christopher to bed he said the nightly, "What if I get scared?" (I'm thinking it's now said b/c he's stalling.) I told him that he can pray to God again b/c God is always with him. His reply was, "Is Jesus a big boy now?" I laughed and told him, yes, Jesus is already grown up and can take care of us now.