Nativity

We got the best Christmas present this year. Thanks Mom.

One of my favorite things of Christmas was the Nativity Set I grew up with. I loved setting it up and staring at it and have been missing it for years. But not any more!!!

We took the kids to see the Nativity Tonight. It was fun. And luckily a warm night compaired to previous years! Kael was more interested this year which was nice. He asked me "who are those people?"

I said, "well, thats the Three Wise Men, theres Mary and Joseph, and those are some Angels."  

He then shouts "OH! Just like we have them!" then he paused to think. Then asked "Where are their hooks?"

(he was thinking of the angel that hangs on the manger, and the mini ornaments we have for our advent calender.) I love the minds of Children. 

Here Comes Santa Claus!

Turkey Dinner and Santa Claus. Who could pass that up!? We were invited to attend a Christmas Party at the church and not only was I drooling over the the mounds of stuffing that would be there, I was even more excited at the thought of not cooking dinner that night. We packed up the kids and off we went. The kids ended up eating more sugar than they did anything else so needless to say they had WAY too much fun. After dinner was cleaned up they got to see Santa Claus! They were SO excited. While waiting in line for our turn we were kept entertained with goofy Christmas songs sung VERY loudly by all the other kids. Naveah danced along. As we got closer to the front we were able to watch the other kids sit on Santas lap. Naveah was getting really excited until the girl ahead of her started freaking out and frantically tried to get off his lap. I looked down at Naveah and she was trembling and took only a few seconds for her too the start crying too. It took some reasurring that Santa is nice and that she needed to tell him what she wants for Christmas so he can bring it to her. Once she realized that she was getting something out of the whole thing she was happy. Kael was all for it. He hopped right on and told him right away he wanted a spaceship. Santa then handed him a little goody bag. It wasnt a minute later while Kael was digging through the bag he then stops and whines "Where's my spaceship!?". I guess Santa forgot to mention that it wouldnt be coming QUITE yet.

Let the Season Begin!

December 1st. What a fun day. Kael had school first thing in the morning. We were asked to bring a plain shirt to class cause they would be doing a fun art project. I was excited to see what he would come home with. After we dropped him off Naveah, Jacek and I headed to the grocery store. The whole front of the store was covered with Christmas trees and I thought....I should take one of those poor cold trees home with me. So we did! We dropped the groceries and the tree off at home and then went to get Kael. This is what they did with the shirts!

The shirt he made at school. Im assuming they used stamps
unless Kael suddenly got REALLY good at painting.
A tree, a deer track and paw prints.





The rest of the afternoon was a quiet one. I set the tree up in the stand so it could fall so that we could hopefully decorate it later that evening and the kids napped. When they woke up we made Taco Pizza for dinner. Then pulled out the decorations and let the kids have some fun before it was time for bed.

Sour Cream anyone?



decorating the tree. The tree topper we normally use
didnt fit on the top of this tree.
So we improvised and used a skull! Dont worry, its only temporary!



 Okay so the Tree got a whole new makeover when I was able to get to it. Not to say the kids didn't do a great job...and the skull was so appropriate....

Crayons

Well I dont know about you, but crayons don't last very long in this house. No matter what I say, those darn things get snapped into millions of tiny little bits and they end up everywhere! Trying to figure out something fun for the kids to do I came up with crayons! I thought maybe we would try to make some new ones. Ones the kids couldnt break! So I lined everything up and had them peel off all the paper and go snap happy! Naveah was thrilled! Kael however was a little confused on why I was encouraging him to break them up when all this time i've been telling him not too!

Everything was going pretty good until it came time to actually melt them. It says it took 15 minutes on super low....I kept turing the oven up and up and nothing was happening. Just over an hour later I gave up. For those that try this I recommend not using no name brand crayons. Apparently they dont MELT! I did manage however to squish them down but they still looked pretty funky. I havent actually wanted to test them out to see if they will stand up to their intended task in fear that they will just crumble and ill have bits of crayon everywhere. But the kids had fun MAKING them and thats all that matters....right?