Christmas Eve

We've really been enjoying our time leading up to Christmas!  Bryson was very excited to deliver cookie jars to all of his teachers and therapists at school and private therapy along with delivering some to our old neighbors!  Of course, we just had to test a batch before we gave them as gifts...you know...just to make sure they tasted okay.  :)

 And we even made some small gift bags for all of Zane's friends/fellow teachers at his school:

One of the teachers in Bryson's special education class (who also does carpool in the mornings and always comments on how much she loves seeing Bryson's smiling face every morning) along with her daughter (who happens to be Bryson's "buddy" that makes sure he gets from my car to his classroom each morning) surprised him with a Christmas gift this week.  As he was getting out of the car, his teacher said that sometimes there are those really sweet kids who touch her heart and that he was one of them so they just had to get him something fun for Christmas.  So sweet to hear how much the teachers enjoy my boy!!  Bryson loved the Lightening McQueen mug, candy cane, and hot chocolate he got from them, so we knew we needed to let our kids have their first cup of hot cocoa!!  They were so excited and really enjoyed it (who wouldn't??)!!

The kids have really been enjoying our nighttime Bible stories this week since Zane has been drawing the story as he tells it.  We've been leading up to Jesus' birth (which will be tomorrow's story) and after Zane tells the story, the kids get to color it.  So fun!

 Look how close Bryson is getting at writing his name!!:

Tonight we went to our church's Christmas Eve Service where Bryson decided that he wanted to sing with his friends (video to come soon).  We were very impressed with how well he stayed with his group and payed attention!  I'm excited to see what tomorrow brings!!