Merry, happy holidays! (Dec. 25)

We’ve moved into our new place enough to pause and celebrate Christmas (as Lucas says, “the Christmas season”) in as many small ways as we can to make Lucas happy. And we’re lucky that Lucas is still pretty easy to please this time of year: we’ve been singing Jingle Bells, checking out Christmas lights, and hanging out with family. And the dinosaurs. We’re feeling pretty lucky that finding a few dinosaurs in Gramma’s Christmas village was way more important to Lucas than Santa or presents. We’d like to take credit for raising a non-materialist child, but it seems possible that this is just who Lucas is. We’ll see what this second child’s Santa-list looks like at 5 years old and get back to you.

We spent the early part of the week with Nonna and Papa and Lucas’s cousins in Seattle. Lucas recently got into Fancy Nancy books, and Lucas’s cousins are something of fancy-experts, so they brought him some accoutrements (“that’s fancy for ‘accessories'”). On Tuesday we drove down to Portland to hang out with Gramma, Aunt Megan, and more Hanson family.

We are so grateful to celebrate another year with this amazing, quirky kid. Happy holidays!!