Sunday, December 11, 2011

ADVENTure #10

Saturday, December 10th's ADVENTure was to Make Cookies at Aunt Brenda's House!  We opened our Calendar door that morning before we went to the daycare Christmas Festival.  Then headed to Aunt Brenda's to make cookies!  We had a blast!  This was the first year that all the kids were self-sufficient.  All the adults had to do was dole out cookies, icing, and sprinkles.  The kids did the rest themselves.  They did such a great job sharing and being patient!  It was great fun had by all! 


Sabrina and Caedyn rolling out the dough.  Did you know that you have to stick that bootie out when you roll out dough?


Garrett's turn to cut out cookies!



Eli chose this pink apron from Grandma's selection.  He is too funny!



Garrett was the first to lick his fingers; it didn't take long.


Ashley, the oldest of the crew!


Chloe!

Kamron



Eli baking another batch; we did 3 recipes!




Caedyn helped roll out some dough after she got done decorating her cookies.  There was some scrap dough leftover that she played with for an hour or more.  She was so cute rolling it out, cutting it with small cookies cutters, and putting it into these little play muffin tins to bake.  It was just adorable!
 


That Aunt Brenda has the coolest toys at her house.  The kids love to paint on her easel.


This tire swing was quite a hit too!



Eli is ready for a big boy bike!  Gotta wait till that 4th birthday in March buddy!  He would only let Aunt Brenda help him get to the top of the hill.
 



Caedyn's cookies
  



Eli's cookies
  



Mommy's cookies
  



After such a busy day, the kids got to eat in the den while watching Polar Express, one of our favorites!
  

Daycare Christmas Festival

 Our daycare had the nicest Christmas Festival this year.  There were craft vendors, face painting, crafts, coloring, cookie decorating, tatoos, bounce houses, and Santa and Mrs. Claus!  There was supposed to be a pony ride, but it was too windy for the pony.  Apparantly he gets spooked by the wind, so I am glad he didn't make it!
 











ADVENTure #9

Friday, December 9th's ADVENTure was to "Deck the Halls" or in our case - the windows!  We used window clings to decorate the front door and the front window beside the tree. 





ADVENTure #8

On Thursday, December 8th, our ADVENTure was to go to the Chorus Christmas Concert.  This was the first year that I took both kids, and we actually got through the entire show!  It was fantastic!  There was plenty of costumes and dancing to keep my kids entranced throughout the whole thing.  

 Eli is taking a stab at "reading" this one.  They had a real hard time figuring out my picture clues.  We haven't been to many concerts.  (That roast is still smelling up my house - the onions, I guess!)
 We can't leave the table without outing the candles!
 Towards the end of the concert we had a special baby Jesus join the kids on stage.  The teacher next door has a 10 month old, and he did so great!