Merry Making

We have been busy with Christmas preparations!  Making ornaments for families, gifts for teachers and gingerbread for ourselves and others.  Whew!

 Painting ornaments for the boys' teachers.  

The boys took this job seriously!

H had some sort of pattern going with his colors.

C just had little splotches of color here and there.

 H drew his own star and wrote his name.  I'm proud of this big boy!  

 

 Instead of coloring in the blank space next to my writing, C decided that he should color on the handwriting.  Oh well!  I'm sure his teachers liked it!

 We also decorated gingerbread.  Here is what the three of us came up with.  Can you tell which ones each of us decorated?  We gave the boys' teachers each a gingerbread that they decorated themselves.  Not sure if they ate it or not...

 

 In the midst of all of these holiday preparations, I also had my school Christmas programs.  I was a little stressed!  It was supposed to be one evening, but due to weather the towns Christmas parade was postponed to the same time as the Christmas program.  So, we decided to move the program (in the hopes of having enough students participate).  We split the program in two, postponed it a week and therefore the principal wanted me to add more songs.  So, I did, and it turned out really well, but it was still a little stressful!  So, at the end of the program day, it was so nice to have the boys happily occupied with a little extra screen time!

We made some time for things like leaf pile making and leaf throwing amid all of the preparations.

 And this one got sick!  Poor guy!  It was just hanging on, for a long time, but he finally got sick, eventually we found out it was a double ear infection, poor guy!  But even with fever, he was still smiling!