Christmas Prep

There are many Christmas farms in the area we live, so it's fun & easy to go cut down your own tree.  (Well, it was fun for me, but I am not the one who had to do the actual cutting!)  We bring Otis along and used our backpack for Parker.  It was a gray, drizzly day, but not too cold.  Here is our splendid tree!

 

We finally worked on the lights yesterday and Parker was "helping" by holding the strands for us.  The ornaments will go on tonight and I am sure she will enjoy that just as much.  So far, Parker has been pretty much ignoring the tree, albeit running into it with her various push toys.

This weekend we ventured to the mall to get a few gifts and to torture our daughter by making her sit by a fat bearded man in a red suit.  We were pretty sure the whole scene would not go well and we were right.  I didn't even put her down on Santa's lap, she was too upset, so we just have some phone pics.

More fun at school

As previously mentioned, Parker's teachers frequently send pictures during the week of the fun things they do. Here are some from the last few weeks. 



they often take walks through the JCC facility, this time they stopped in the Director's office and decided to have a meeting

This was the day of their school pictures.  The teachers decided to try their own class photo and got them all to smile by putting a blanket over their heads and pulling it off...peek-a-boo!

Outside fun

We do not need a cozy coupe at home because Parker gets to play with this one at school all the time

painting with their feet

more feet painting, they do art projects frequently and hang them on bulletin boards in the rooms and hallways

Last week they started having the kids sleep on cots instead of in cribs, this is to prepare them for the move to their new room in a few weeks

They found paper hats, wore them for a bit, and then tore them apart!

 

A visit to the new room, the little ones particpated in the bigger kids circle time and even got to have instruments.  Parker looks a little confused here, what the heck is going on?

Basketball

Greg sometimes plays basketball on Friday nights and so the basketball itself has been floating around the house the last couple weeks.  Parker loves to roll it and try to bounce it.  In this video, she loved being chased by it!