Hearing The Bell

Bryson and I went to our old library and got tickets to board "The Polar Express."  A librarian read the story and had the pictures from the book projected on the screen and other librarians served hot chocolate and cookies.  We sang some songs like "Santa Claus is Coming To Town" and you can guess who showed up.  Bryson has finally gotten over his fear of Santa, or so it seems.  It only took him four and a half years not to burst into tears at the sight of the bearded man.  Bryson can surely hear the bell this year and believes Santa Claus will bring him lots of presents (though he knows that's not "the real reason we celebrate Christmas . ..  Jesus is!"

 

 

Citizen of the Month

We're so proud of our citizen of the month who was chosen for helping his classmates clean up and working well with others.

Our Award Winning Holiday Decor

We won fourth place in our apartment complex's holiday decorating contest.  I don't know if they came looked at our doors and all our windows to get the full effect, but we had fun decking out our apartment for Christmas (either that, or three people REALLY went all out, even more so than we did).  Fourth place is hardly worth bragging about, but it's still $25 off next month's rent, and we enjoyed coming up with the concepts of our windows and decorating our tree.  In fact, Bryson's new favorite pastime is making paper ornaments in random shapes that he hangs on our tree.  

The First Thanksgiving

This year we hosted our first Thanksgiving at our house.  We've always enjoyed Thanksgiving with one relative or friend or another since we were married.  But this Thanksgiving, we invited Jarom's sister, Allie, and her family over.  It was a little crazy at times because of our apartment's small kitchen, but we had delicious dinner and enjoyed one another's company.   We watched movies (including The Christmas Story) and took the kids to the park before enjoying pies and other desserts.  It was a turkey day to be remembered.

A few days earlier, Bryson had a Thanksgiving party in his ECE class.  He was one of the kids who dressed as a Native American while other class members were Pilgrim boys or girls.  Jarom and I helped with the class party and were there to sit down with the little Pilgrims and Indians for their Thanksgiving feast.   We also worked on Thanksgiving preschool activities at home for the letter "L" (for leaves and love) this week.