One Thing - 12/7/13

It has been a busy day of Christmas baking at our house. 

The boys worked hard at taking kisses out of their wrappers for kiss cookies

 They enjoyed frosting cut out cookies

And eating them, too!

One Thing - 12/6/13

A few pictures from our day...

The boys made an afternoon snack out of the gingerbread house that Jonah made at preschool this morning. Jonah ate the graham crackers and frosting. Silas ate gumdrops and frosting.

Mike put all of our Christmas decoration boxes back into our crawl space this afternoon. Lydia tried SO hard to lift the boxes for Daddy.

Since we watched The Sound of Music last night, Jonah's been singing The Lonely Goatherd. This afternoon he made his own puppet for a puppet show from behind the recliner.

One Thing - 12/5/13

Building a city of blocks on this frigid afternoon

One Thing - 12/4/13

Found this picture taken on Thanksgiving Day of my littlest sweetie and me while getting pictures off the camera yesterday. 

One Thing - 12/3/13

Tonight was our town's visit with Santa and tree lighting ceremony. We enjoyed a chilly night out!

One Thing - 12/2/13

The other night I made a new chili recipe. It was SO good! During supper, I was telling the boys about how the tomatoes in the chili were from our garden and that the beef in the chili came from a cow raised on a farm a few miles from us. Silas said to me,  "Is the cow sad now?" I said, "well..." And tried to think of a tactful way to respond to the question. As I am thinking, Jonah said, "The cow is dead. They killed it to get the beef." Well said, Jonah. So much for a gentle response!

One Thing - 12/1/13

Since it is December 1st, we started our advent calendar today. The boys have been talking about it for a few days since it has been hanging on the wall and have been so excited to start! In my early Christmas shopping this year, I picked out Christmas pajamas and a Christmas book for each of the little ones. I didn't know when we would give them to the kids. But, yesterday I decided they would be a start of advent gift. So, today after the kids woke up from their naps they saw three gifts under our tree. The boys put their jammies on right away. Then, Jonah read all of the books. Tonight, we are sitting down to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas. We love this time of year!