Christmas Programs

Our church doesn’t have big children’s productions at Christmas, but the preschool and elementary choirs each have an opportunity to present a few songs. Kate was  a sweet little angel with rhythm sticks and Meg and Nate sang a French carol in our hanging of the greens service.

Family Photo

As our Christmas gift, Bethany and Nate orchestrated, shot, edited, and delivered a series of family photos. Here are some of my favorites. (Also, photo credit for the previous post: all the good pictures were by B&N.)

Thanksgiving

We spent a fun-filled week with Erik’s family in Connecticut over the Thanksgiving holiday. Some of our activities included:

a sandbar hike to Charles Island,

 

pottery painting,

 

LOTS of screen time (I think Caleb is saying, “If I have to spend five more minutes in front of this computer I’ll poke my eye out”—no wait, that might be me projecting again),

 

and a day trip to NYC. Here we are at the Milford train station bound for Grand Central.

 

Ground Zero

 

“…I lift my lamp beside the golden door…”

The sun was a little too bright for a good photo beneath Lady Liberty.

 

Rockefeller Plaza

Another Blue Cast

Kate observed Veterans’ Day by slipping off the zip line and breaking her arm. (Nate was just a few months younger than this when he broke his arm riding his scooter.) She was very brave as we went to various doctor appointments (we weren’t able to get the cast until three days later.) She was also very independent, figuring out how to do many things with just one arm, and she took good care of her cast. I took a cute close up shot of her with the cast on (and she was wearing her favorite red dress up outfit) to document the event, but I guess I deleted it :(. This snapshot will have to suffice (She is St. Patrick’s Cathedral; more photos of our day in NYC coming soon.)

 

Celebrating cast removal with a milkshake. Happy girl!

Rides

Tent City

We are in a tent making phase here. I think if I let them they would make, furnish, and then abandon tents in every room of the house and every sector of the yard. Right now we are holding at two.

Post Halloween Post

The day after halloween I found these great dresses for 75% off. They are pretty well made and more substantial than the average costume. I also bought a really nice giraffe costume for Caleb. It may or may not fit next year and he may or may not want to be a giraffe, but for $5 I figured we could find some one to use it. There were no super deals for Nate, so I splurged and spent $14 on a Darth Vader costume (including light saber).

Also, Nate continues as the undefeated champ in the annual candy binge. About 24 pieces--and this was on a full stomach and with a slight fever. Unfortunately they are figuring out that they actually get less of their candy this way, so I think next year they are going to petition for a new system.