We have two little girls around here that are getting pretty excited about Christmas (or 'Kiss-mas' as Nora says it). Teresa was pretty set on putting candy canes on our tree. Shockingly, they didn't get to stay up there long.
Do I need to actually say this? Nora dressed herself.
Sooooo hard to get a good picture of them together, but I just loved Nora's face in this one!
We decided to try making some ornaments for our tree. We followed this recipe, and it was pretty awful. Seriously, it was a huge mess and super stressful, but we were eventually able to eke out a few respectable looking ornaments. I'm pretty sure it was user error, not the recipe itself that was bad, though.
In case you didn't click the link above, the recipe is basically a cup of applesauce to a cup of cinnamon. T found out pretty fast that it does not make for a very yummy dough, poor thing.
This was the face Nora kept giving me when I asked for a smile, silly girl.
After we hung our ornaments these two started being silly. Every time they fell down Nora would cry "Let's do it again!".
We went to the little Christmas celebration here on base the other weekend. They had a bunch of farm animals for petting, Nora was super excited about the 'unicorns' (ponies), but was able to pull herself away to enjoy the train ride.
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Despite what it looks like, T was super excited about Rudolph.
The girls helped me make fudge on Sunday before church, and Nora filled the ever important job of spatula licker.
Of course they both love all the Christmas preparations, but Teresa has been especially sweet and in awe of all the Christmas magic this year. She will pick an ornament off the tree and just carry it around with her for awhile, then go trade it for another one. I made a felt nativity set for them to play with and she likes to neatly pack all the characters into her purse and carry them with her. Although she is a bit confused about the role of Joseph in the whole scenario...
We've been trying to focus a lot on the true meaning of Christmas, (those things just don't photograph as well as the above activities ;), and they both just love, loved this video.
They were actually squabbling on the floor the first time I started playing it, but the moment the music started they were both by my side in a flash to watch the video and have requested it every day since.
2 comments:
Oh, the face on Nora in that spatula-licking pic is precious! She's a character, with her grins and expressions! Christmas is fun anyway, but so, so, so, SO fun with kids. I think T looks like she's enjoying the Rudolph hug. Eyes closed... look of satisfaction on her face... And, MAN, is her hair blonding up!
Great pics ... thanks for sharing. Yes, I can tell Nora dressed herself ... her mother was good at that too, with unusual results. The little tree is cute, and yes, I saw that recipe somewhere recently too...looks like the ones you ended up with are great. The train ride looks like fun. Teresa and Rudolph is very cute too... oh, and the face on N as she licks the spatula :) That is a great video; I love it too. Love, Mom (Dad too) xox
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