Oct 26 2011
Options
Today Annada, Hannah and I went to Epcot. On our way back the ferry was so full I had to stand next to our stroller. As we were moving Annada got out of her stroller and started roaming the very full boat.
I grabbed her hand to keep her close and she tried to pull it out. So I leaned over and told her, “You have to stay with me when the boat is moving. You can hold my hand or sit in the stroller. Which option do you pick?”
“I want to stand here all by myself,” Annada replied.
I looked at her with my that-is-not-one-of-the-options eyes.
“That is my option,” she said. “And it is a good one!”
Our house is holiday-confused. Annada is convinced that she will go trick-or-treating to find eggs filled with candy at people’s homes. Then we will come home and open presents from Santa. Yes, I have tried to explain it.
So Marc laughed at me when I came home with a nativity set. “This isn’t going to help her understand that Christmas comes in Decemeber,” he said.
I saw one on sale and Annada and I made a special Mommy-daughter date to go get it. We had dinner out together and then went to buy it. Buying a kid-friendly nativity is special to me because I loved playing with the nativity when I was little.
When we bought it I asked Annada whose birth was on the picture. “It’s Isaiah!” she said with glee, referring to her cousin.
When we brought it home we read the the story of Jesus’ birth together. Then I read it again and Marc and Annada acted out the story while I read a short version from children’s book.
Annada has spent about an hour every day since then acting out Jesus’ birth. She pulls out the kid’s book and sets up the scenes. Jesus is often born on the roof. But she and I both love it.