Christmas Activities

We have had a full month of fun Christmas activities starting the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  We went with Nanna and Papa to ride the train with Santa Claus.  Not knowing if Santa sat down to talk to each kid, I had not prepared Walt and Emmie and had them think about their lists.  When he did, Emmie wouldn't talk, and Walt so cutely replied, "I'd like a new truck...and some of my crayons are broken, so maybe some new crayons, and (looking around and thinking) maybe a play train ticket for my train table, and a um, a toy flag."  So cute, clearly there wasn't much he really wanted.  And really this year, he has mentioned a few things he wants, but has hardly been consistent in really really wanting anything like he was last year.

 

 The recreation dept. had marionette performances of Santa's Coming to Town and the Nutcracker that we went to.  Walt and Emmie loved those. 

 

 Making/Eating our gingerbread house.  It didn't last 24 hours.  I decided this year just to let them eat it after we made it despite the fact that it was pretty cute. 

Loving on Tucker.  Emmie gives Tucker so many hugs lately.

The Christmas parade at night was COLD to say the least. We were all bundled up and freezing, but it was fun. There are fireworks and great floats.

Walt was a Shepperd in the Christmas program that his school did.  As promised, he sang every word and did all of the movements.  He did fabulous and I am so proud of him.  It is a wonderful program.  At the end he presented flowers to his teach Ms. Beth since she directs the program.  Nanna, Granny, Daddy, Emmie and I all came to watch.

 

 Walt's class singing some of the Christmas songs at their class party.

 Nanna, Emmie and I went to the party.  Emmie's class had a party too, but I completely forgot my camera.

All month, Walt talked about going to see the James Island Festival of Lights.  He remembered the train ride, roasting marshmallows and lights from last year.  So we had a great family night doing all of those things.

 By pressing these buttons Walt and Emmie could change the color of the lights on this tree.

A train ride at Town Center with buddies.  The rest of the girls were in the next car, but Emmie wanted to ride with Walt, Mills, and Charlie. 

We have a great group of friends that all have children Walt's age plus a few a little older and some younger.  We had a fun little Christmas party where all the kids wore their Christmas pajamas (Walt was so excited about that,) they decorated Christmas cookies, and watched Christmas movies.  All while we adults got to hang out.  It was such a fun night.

 Emmie LOVES Emma, Charlie's older sister.  Emma was so sweet to let Emmie curl up in the chair with her most of the night.

Ashley, Joy, Tine, Paige, Amy, Celine

Finally, we did a little Christmas baking.  We really didn't bake as much this year as in the past.  The new thing we made were chocolate covered pretzels with sprinkles.  They were so easy, the kids were good at making them and had fun doing it, and they were of course yummy!