Christmas Break Activites

The following activities have been the high light of our week. I won't go into the negative details or behaviors that have been occurring as we are feeling stir crazy (and mom lacking energy/movement abilities), as well as the fact that this blog is to high light the GOOD our kids do on a daily basis and reflect upon as they grow up. SO, here is a glimpse of our "active" activities: -)

Joe's favorite thing to do...cooking! Here he is in charge of making home-made chocolate pudding! We have made it twice this week.

Joe flipping off the couch...not one of my favorite activities, but an energy burner.
Caroline popping bubble wrap...the boys blew through their bubble wrap in a matter of minutes!

Jonathan and Joe's indoor version of baseball... a wiffle/golf ball and an empty wrapping paper tube. One throws it up the stairs and the other tries to hit it with the tube. Not another one of my favorites, but an energy burner.

Best activity so far! They cooperated, talked about their building design and constructed this magnificent structure!

After looking at all of these, I wonder WHY and WHAT Santa will bring that could top these activities???

Jingling All the Way

This week was ALL about the jingle bells! The kids had THREE Christmas programs. One was a combined program at church and the other two were their separate classes at preschool. The program at church started the week off. Jonathan, somewhat, participated, but Joe and Caroline "practiced" wonderfully, per the teacher report, but decided to stand glued to each other and not make a sound. That is OK by us as it was pretty overwhelming with all the moms, dads, and grandparents present. Monday the twins had their Christmas program and much to our surprise, Caroline sang every song! And, Joe did too...on the way home in the car and everyday there after. I LOVE our personal concerts! Wednesday was Jonathan's day. We were so impressed and surprised at his participation on EVERY song! I think Thomas and I laughed a ton this week due to the adorably, cute kids we got to see!

Jonathan jingling his bells (back row, center).

Caroline and Joe jingling their bells (Joe first row with collar shirt on; Caroline right behind him).

Santa showed up at church! The boys were very happy to see him... Caroline was a little skiddish of the large man in red and white. She safely waved to him and that was good for her...and us. No need to make such a loving guy scary!

Jonathan's church class singing. He is in the back row, far left on the end.

Joe and Caroline's class singing. They were GLUED to each other and Caroline would not look up or out at the LARGE audience. It was pretty funny!

A Christmas of Firsts

This year we have two Christmas trees. One for the kids and one for the family/decoration. We had this small tree for when the kids were babies and use to put it up on a table where they couldn't reach it. This year we decide to let them decorate it and what a BLAST we had. They were so good and took turns putting ornaments they have made the past few years at KDO. We let them help decorate the big tree (I didn't take any pictures), but a little rearranging was done after bed time :-)

Birthday Continued

The twins were so excited to be 4 this year. They told everyone they saw it was their birthday and they were just so happy to say that the day was their birthday. We had a mellow morning at home, picked out their preschool birthday treats at Hen House, then met some friends for a impromptu play date. That evening we celebrated... just the 5 of us and it was AWESOME!

Caroline got a Lalaloopsy doll and Joe got a new guitar.