December happenings . . .

I got to go with Isaac on a class field trip to the Nutcracker.

 Kitchen Elves

 Heidi has been painting a lot lately, what I think is funny is she draws and paints pretty detailed pictures for her age upside down.  What does that mean?

 Up until about a week or so ago, we were having very abnormally warm weather.  We tried to take advantage of it and played outside, visited the park and zoo etc. as much as possible!!

 Heidi and her joy school friends at the zoo

                              The elephant gave us a good show this day and was drinking and spraying water.

 LOTS and LOTS of nativity play

 Kids' favorite Christmas activity, sleeping "under" the tree.  Nicole read Christmas books to them for a while.

Enjoying the sun as much as possible

 Thanks to Heidi's persistence we FINALLY got a few Christmas lights for the house.  She was pretty happy.  All the hooks were already attached to the house, so Curt just had to attach the lights.  (I make it sound like it was easy--he still had to climb on the roof and hang over the edge to hook the lights on, but it was easy for me!!)