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It's Jack's third Christmas, but in a way, it's like it's his first.

Two yules ago, he was only six months old, and as a result, he didn't have a clue as to what was going on. We dressed him up in red and posed him on a bed of tinsel for his holiday photo and he chewed on a sparkly snowflake decoration that was surely made in China with lead-based glues and paints. He looked adorable in his miniature dress shirt and tie and was the hit of all the family get-togethers, and he really did get his two front teeth for Christmas.

Before becoming a father, I never really gave much thought to family traditions, perhaps in part because the ones I grew up with sometimes appeared to be disconnected from the culture outside our home at the time. Since Oliver’s birth, however, Mimi and I have often talked about what aspects of our respective backgrounds we would like to pass on to him to give him a sense of his cultural heritage.