Christmas Time is Coming!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at our house this year. The girls participated in some homeschool activities and they really enjoyed those. We spent Thanksgiving day together as a family. We enjoyed cooking together and Greg made his traditional cornbread turkey stuffing, and it was very yummy!

It never takes us long to "get in the spirit" for Christmas. And obviously so, since we believe that THAT very spirit lives in our hearts all year long. Anyway, on Friday we started decorating our home for Christmas. We all had a blast and the house looks so cozy with all the decor up! I'm looking forward to hosting friends and hopefully family! I am also preparing to serve others in our community. This is my favorite thing about Christmas. I love giving to others. We are trying to teach our children that it is better to give than to receive. So... this morning, they went through their toys and put many of them in Christmas gift bags to be given away. They will deliver the toys in a couple of weeks, directly to the children.

I am so thankful that Christ came as a baby in a manger 2010 years ago.

I am looking forward to what God has for our family this Christmas

and what HE wants to teach us!

Charlotte's Web

Last night, Lexie, Leah and I went to see the play, "Charlotte's Web." A nearby highschool drama team was putting on the performance. Needless to say, the girls really enjoyed it! I did too! We own the movie and so the girls knew all the characters and the story plot. Leah struggled with talking quite loud during the performance. She was constantly asking questions; "How did they do that? Is Wilbur really going to die? Is Charlotte really going to die? Hey, that doesn't look like the Fair Grounds, where's the pony ride?" and so on...

The girls with Wilbur the pig

The girls with Fern Arable

And Charlotte the spider

After the show the characters came out in the aisle and did the "chicken dance." Leah had a blast dancing with the goose and the gander. By the way, they were hilarious in the show!

The girls waiting for the show to start with their program!

We had a lot of fun, just the 3 of us!

Molly and Mickey Mouse

Molly sure is growing so fast. She is crawling wherever she wants to go. The other day she climbed up on the girl's exercise trampoline and then onto the couch. That was quite frightening! I won't tell you what happened after that! Anyway...

She is enjoying Mary Ellen's "last year's" Christmas gift, the Mickey Mouse rocker. We all think she will be walking before too long. She loves to walk with assistance.

She is also cutting tooth number 3 and 4 on top. I'll just be glad when she sleeps through the night. You would think with just having one nap during the day that she would sleep better at night.... not so much.

Lexie's First "wiggly" tooth and new tooth!

Lexie came to me the other day and told me she had a loose tooth. I thought,"No way!" But she was right. And on top of that, or should I say, behind that, she already has her new adult tooth coming in. I just had to share this picture. It shows both bottom middle teeth coming in "behind" her baby teeth.

Can you say "braces?" If the finances are there, we'll definitely be seeing an orthodontist in the future! Joy, joy!