Skating vids

Luz v. Really Big Gingerbread Man

Elephant

Pool Party

Lucy and her buddy Maddie

The birthday girl and her Papa

Buddies from daycare

Eating the enormous piece of cake that Mommy sliced. I am notoriously bad at cake cutting.

Making sand art

The cake before we devoured it.

This year Lucy has a pool party. The local YMCA has a heated indoor pool and I thought that since this December baby with otherwise never get a pool party- we could have one this way. It worked out really well. After swimming we gathered in a room upstairs and did sand art and colored water bottles and ate cake. A good time was had by all. I'm not sure if Lucy knew she was the center of attention, but she definitely took advantage of the relaxed rules on sugar ingestion.

Breakfast with Santa

Santa reads a story. Twas the Night Before Christmas.

Mrs. Bobbie

The whole rowdy bunch

Lucy with Santa. She was supposed to ask for a pillow pet. She asked for glass slippers. She got "glass" slippers for her birthday. Oh well. Santa is just for pretend anyway, right? Which brings up an interesting ethical question. Do you push Santa as real or not? We are at this point just being passive aggressive about the whole thing. Santa is around, but we're not writing letters or doing Elf on the Shelf or telling her Santa is watching and all that. I don't want to lie to her about Santa, but I also don't want her to be the kid telling all the others that Santa is pretend. We're just going to try and ride the fence for now.

Ever wondered what my office looks like?

Now you know

Reindeer Party 2010

The reindeer party guest and the hosts of the party!

Reindeers made from handprints.

Rudolph

Mimsy and Lucy made reindeer food with oats, sugar, and red sparkles. This concoction is to be sprinkled on the yard on christmas eve for Santa's reindeer.

Note the intense concentration as the reindeer food is mixed.

The traditional after Thanksgiving reindeer party was light on attendees this year, but we had a fun time. Reindeer games were played and crafts were made. Afterward, we loaded up and went to the ATL to see Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer at the Atlanta Center for puppetry arts. It was a good time.