A pleasant beginning to another Christmas Eve. Rhonda is at work, so I'm home with the kids. They are watching Baby Galileo right now. It's a bit chilly here today, temps might only make it to 27, but we might go outside later. Maybe I'll run them over to the park again.

There's a program on public radio right now that I'm taping. It's from Kings College in Cambridge, a boys choir and a men's choir, some beautiful music. That's one of my favorite things about Christmas, all the wonderful music on radio and tv.

I've heard Hanna even say three words in a row now. Often she'll grab me by the hand and pull me over to the couch, cuz she wants me to read her books, and when we get to the couch she'll slap it with her hand and say "sit!" Well, lately she's been saying "sit down!", but once in awhile now she'll say "sit down here!"

And she just came up to me and informed me her diaper needs to be changed. Yay.