Amanda Kloots shares scenes from Christmas party with son Elvis and family: “The greatest gift”

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Amanda Kloots celebrates Christmas with a very happy little one.

On Sunday, The conversation The 40-year-old co-host shared scenes from her vacation with her son Elvis Eduardo, 3, as the couple enjoyed the festive day with family.

The Kloots celebrated the holidays at Montage Palmetto Bluff, a resort in Bluffton, South Carolina, where she and her family last spent Christmas in 2019, according to the fitness trainer.

In an adorable video shared on Instagram, each member of the dancer's family comes down a staircase to perform a signature move, including Elvis, who adorably twirls at the bottom of the stairs.

“Merry Christmas to you and your family! ❤️, Kloots family 🎄,” Kloots and her sister Anna wrote under their joint post.

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In another later post showing moments from her vacation, Kloots wrote: “The greatest gift is spending time with the people you love!”

Elvis recently made a special guest appearance with his mother in CBS’ Christmas movie Fit for Christmaswhere she told PEOPLE he was a “professional” on set.

“It was amazing. He had a short text that we practiced and he got it right on the first try. [He] did it perfectly,” said the proud mother.

Even though her toddler is acting like he's ready for his first Emmy Award, she hopes to keep him off camera, at least for a while.

“I thought to myself, 'No more for you,'” Kloots joked. “I'm going to encourage him to do what he wants to do. As long as he's happy and content, I'm going to support him. I just want him to be a happy little boy.”

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Kloots and her late husband Nick Cordero married in New York City in 2017 and moved to Los Angeles at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, when their son was just 9 months old. The Broadway actor died of COVID-19 in July 2020.

Speaking to PEOPLE, Kloots said she tries her best to talk to her son about his late father, but she struggles to find the right words.

“There's no way to prepare for it,” she said. “There's just no way, so I can't. I can't even think about it.”

She also admitted that Elvis had recently started asking heartbreaking questions about his father's whereabouts.

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“It started in September,” Kloots said. “September was a very rough month for me. I have to go back to school, I have to go back to work, it's Nick's birthday and we have an anniversary. It was literally one thing after another. I wasn't at my best in September.”

The Fit for Christmas The co-writer and lead actress didn't know what to say to her toddler and couldn't hold back the tears.

“Elvis started asking questions, and it started with, 'Why doesn't daddy live with us?'” Kloots said. “It wasn't easy. I immediately broke down. I changed his diapers. We got ready for bed, and every night I have him hold this Nick pillow and say, 'Tell daddy about your day,' while I change his diapers, and it's so sweet. Sometimes he'll just tell him about school, or I'll say, 'Tell him what you had for dinner.'”

“He's talking to Nick, holding his pillow, kissing and hugging him a little bit, and then he says this, so I just cried,” Kloots recalls. “I had no plan for it because I had no idea when it was going to happen.”