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Judd is expressing an interest in drawing. I am really trying to encourage this because I realize coloring is a precursor to handwriting. My older son never really liked to draw or color, and proper penmanship is currently a struggle for him. Unfortunately, Baby J prefers markers to crayons….I’ve tried giving him the really big, egg-shaped toddler crayons, but he just wants the markers. Probably because markers are messy, and that’s the whole point for a toddler. Oh well…trying to take a laissez fare attitude about this and encourage his creativity and coloring skills while ignoring the marker smears all over his face, hands, arms and sometimes the furniture. They’re washable markers, right?
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Baby J sneaks into brother’s room when he is away at school to play with all the off-limits toys in there. J typically gravitates toward big brother’s action figures, but right now Holden has an animated, singing snowman contraption for the holidays up on his dresser. Baby J wants so badly to be able to reach that toy, but it is just out of his grasp. Instead, I am tasked with pressing the button over and over and over for his holiday delight.
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Brother Nerf war. This game is a tad bit one-sided.
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Toddler and twinkly lights.
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Working on his letter to Santa.
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A special treat day at Chuck E Cheese for memorizing all of his addition and subtraction facts up to the 12’s.
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I’m always looking for ways to spotlight the spirit of love during Christmastime. Last year we did a ‘Daily Kindness Calendar’ during Advent. It was a wonderful tool for encouraging our family to demonstrate service and love to others. This holiday season, our Elf, “Miles” brought us “The Giving Manger.” The idea is to place a piece of straw into the manger for each kind deed/act of service that a person in the family performs. On Christmas Day, the hope is to have a full bed of straw to lay the Baby Jesus into. We got a head start by beginning this the day after Thanksgiving, and so far it is a nice addition to our holiday traditions.
H Parker Photography is a DFW Baby Photographer with a residential studio in Roanoke,TX. She specializes in classic, timeless studio baby photographs.