Your feet will love these slides while indoors or outdoors. With their spandex gussets and molded insole these slippers mold to your feet for a customized fit. Try them today!How well I remember each of my children's first Christmases. Even when we couldn't afford to take many photographs, pictures are printed on my memory. My nine-month-old daughter on Christmas morning, wore her new nightgown, robe, and slippers I made her and put on her after her bath Christmas Eve. The night outfit was to be one of her gifts for that morning, but she needed to look "pretty" for pictures while she opened her gifts. So, she opened one the night before.
That memory is ours, my husband's and mine, not hers. She couldn't remember how many gifts she received, or if she got any. The tradition, of having the children open a present on Christmas Eve from Daddy, and wearing their new pajamas in order to have nice sleepwear for Christmas morning pictures was born her first Christmas, but not because she started or wanted it.
The first Christmas for our first son gave the family a story to tell and retell, but it wasn't one the children remembered on their own. We planned on traveling to my parents' for Christmas that year. I hadn't been home for Christmas since my senior year in high school. Since my husband's parents had left gifts for the two children, we decided to allow our two-year-old daughter and eight-month-old son open the gifts from that set of grandparents rather than take up space in the car going and coming. Our daughter was thrilled with the baby doll, and our son sat in the middle of the living room pushing the toy pickup going "rrrrr ... rrrr." We learned that boys learn how to make motor noises at an early age.
Christmas morning, our daughter ran to the tree, grabbed up the baby doll like the one left at home except for different clothes. She turned to her daddy and said, "Santa Claus brought my baby doll here for me." However, if we hadn't repeated the story later, she wouldn't have remembered.
The point I'm making is little ones won't remember how many gifts, how expensive, or the experience of their first Christmas. The memories and traditions are the parents' and grandparents'. Those babies old enough to open presents often enjoy the wrappings more than the content. One or two toys are enough to occupy little ones. More than that, they don't know which to play with first.
A baby's first Christmas should be one that both the baby and the parents can enjoy. The parents then can have pleasant memories to share with the child when he or she is old enough to understand.
Vivian Gilbert Zabel became an author on http://www.Writing.Com/ and produced several books, found on Amazon.com. She wrote this article in affiliation with http://www.BabyNameVote.Com/ which is a site for Baby Names.
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