December, so far

ok, i was all ready to keep up with my blog. i had taken some pictures and was gonna post after each event. but then i had it out with comcast, the devil! we just couldn't see eye to eye anymore so i 'broke up' with them. so, yet again, a long post. early december was packed with events.... sort of. the town had a tree lighting ceremony that i decided, last minute, to take the kids to. luckily the library had an open house at the same time, so while we waited for the ceremony to start we sat in the warm library and had cookies and hot chocolate. i'm sparing you the pictures from that event. then i took the kids to my parents home to help decorate their tree. my funny nephew, carter, came down just for that. then we had our tree decorating. i had the tree up since the beginning of the week, but decided to wait until daddy came home to decorate. still with me? then my little sofia had her second birthday, which we kept very low-key. and finally (i know, too much) we had a special holiday musical that the 2nd and 3rd graders put on for the families. only a few pictures turned out good.... so now, to view!



















while waiting for the tree lighting at town hall.... we saw santa! aidan was happy to see him, but he was more interested in his candy cane.

my nephew carter and erica helping to decorate grandma's tree. see that fire, technically carter and i started that. he helped me burn some papers...

he was very careful after his first 'oops'. luckily we didn't give him or the others ornaments that were 'priceless'.

had to throw in a picture of my parents house. it would have looked even better if there was snow on the ground.

don't know what they wanted to do more.... decorate the tree or watch 'the santa clause 2'

i let her put up a few non-breakables before she was off to bed.

i couldn't do this... we had to wake 'he-man' up so erica could put the star on.

the finished product, this day. every day i come downstairs to see the tree looking just a bit different. the kids love to move the ornaments around... and sofi loves to break them.

just after breakfast... she actually snuggled with me for a good 20 minutes. too bad that sippy cup is in the way.

do not disturb the little princess when she is watching 'toy story'. it's her new obsession.

i let erica help make the cake. she still hasn't learned how to crack and break the egg without makin a mess. but she had fun. only two small shell pieces for me to dig out.

daddy gave airplane rides to everyone. but after a while he would only give them to sofi... she's lighter.

this made me nervous, but erica loved doing the piggy-back rides for sofi. and of course sofi loved them.

not a huge fan of the 'candles' (matches, i forgot to get candles) and of the singing. i think the others blew out the 'candles'.

open wide!

eating her cake while erica plays with her new 'jessie' doll. sofia steals erica's doll all the time, so i figured this was fair.

i know... where's waldo. i tried to help this time. can you believe that this is all three of the 2nd grade classes

out of the five songs, she got to do something special for one. i don't remember if it was the kid in front of her or another, but one of them was twirling the mallets like a drum stick any time he could. it was funny!