Holiday fave

One of my favorite, favorite things about holiday time is getting cards in the mail.  It is like a present each day.  Seeing all these faces we love makes me so happy. 

Celia Christmas program

I am learning that even as a stay at home home with a husband who is as flexible as he can be with his work schedule sometimes I have to miss a special event with my kiddos.  Celia's holiday program was one of those misses for me.  I was in Micah's classroom but Shawn was there for Celia and truth be told that made our girl happy as could be.

Showing her gingerbread house made at preschool.

Prorgram.  She spotted this dress and end of story IT was the holiday dress of all dresses for her.

 

Dress up

Charity

Noah has had many visits from the tooth fairy this year.  Shortly before Christmas his smile looked like more teeth were missing than existing!  His school was collecting money for their annual service project - packing meals to send to Haiti.  One morning he asked me for a baggie to take money into school, he had decided to donate all of his tooth fairy money for the project.  Shawn and I were super proud of him. 

What's in the box

I finished all of my holiday shopping and wrapping nearly two weeks early this year.  It was a Christmas miracle.  The kids spent so much time dragging the presents out, sorting them, shaking them and making guesses about what was inside.  I overheard Micah say, "I think Mom got legos," after shaking one of my presents.  Ha!

Play date pic

And shortly afterward a dad sent this to me while Micah was at his house for a play date.  Looks like he was getting along just fine. :)

Classroom snapshot

Every once in a while one of our teachers will send a photo of the kids in classroom action.  I love it, what a bright spot to the day.  Here is one from January.