Christmas Festivities

As soon as we got back from Arizona, the Christmas festivities started happening. I really liked having time to hang out with our little family and do what we wanted to do.

Ella's preschool took a field trip to the high school to watch a performance of "The Nutcracker". It was really cute and had loads of dancing, which Ella loved. I had actually never seen it before, so what I did get to see, was great. I kept thinking that some of the little girls weren't much older than Ella, and here they were, dancing on a stage in front of tons of people. I didn't get to see all of it because I was out in the hall with Annie for a lot of it. For some reason at Ella's preschool, parents have to be with their child for every field trip. For me, this means schlepping Ruby and Annie along as well. It's not that fun. Is it bad that I didn't even send Ella on her last field trip because I didn't want to bring all the kids and try to keep them quiet and still for a performance? I just kept Ella home that day and she was none the wiser!

On a side note, I think my kids have been to Disney World a few too many times because they think that they have to pose for pictures with anyone in a costume.

Ella's preschool also had a little Christmas concert in December. I brought Ruby, but left Annie at home with a babysitter since it was her nap time. Each class performed a little song. Their class dressed up as stars! (Ella's in the top right corner). The poor music teacher was up front, leading all the songs and basically doing a solo for each class. The kids weren't really singing a whole lot. But they were all really good at their little hands motions! It was really cute!

Here's Annie lounging in her bathrobe! Look at that cheeser of a grin.

The Dental Battalion had a really fun Christmas party one Saturday morning. They served breakfast, had fun crafts for the kids, had lots of party favors including Little Golden Books and reindeer headbands. The kids played musical chairs and it was hilarious to see the ones Ella's age and younger try to understand the rules. They caught on pretty quickly and had a pretty intense competition going.

Is it bad if sometimes Richard tells Ruby to say, "I'm Bell's Palsy girl" because she makes this crooked face all the time?


Even Santa showed up!!! Everyone was excited, except Annie. She was not having it. But Ella and Ruby were fine with meeting him. Ella gave him her wish list of a real white kitty (more on that later) and Ruby told him she wanted a pony with a tree house and a monster in a cage (more on that later too.)


A couple nights before Christmas, we decorated gingerbread houses. It was lots of fun and the girls did a great job utilizing every piece of candy there was.