Happy Holidays!

Claire

She was very excited to start our advent calendars, even though the 1st was a busy morning because we had to get to my work, and then go straight to school. We did the first of the days at the end of the day, the other days mainly were before bedtime! On Monday, as we were walking into the library there was snow falling and I taught them to catch it on their tongues instead of trying to eat the stuff off the ground. It was still November, so there weren't any decorations yet, but hopefully going this week, we will see a lot! Claire had two snow days this week because anytime the school has a late start, they cancel the kindergartens and we did school work at home to make up for it. They were learning about the gingerbread man story and Claire got a cookie and could sort of tell the story by looking at the pictures. 

Shay

She is getting used to being at the gym with my for the time we are there and is just always snacking so I have to find things that are more filling. She'll eat all of the lunch I pack and then we have to rush home to eat lunch before Claire starves at school. They also get to experience the fun new stuff that happens like when the gym got a shipment and gave the Kidcare the bubble wrap! On Friday, one of Claire's snow days, we went to Farmington station because there is a snowman search throughout the outside mall. We found most of them, but we had gone after getting chick-fil-a for a late lunch and it was starting to get too cold so I promised we would go back again to find the last 3. I tried to keep track of where we had found them so I can remember where else we need to look, the girls loved finding them and we took a picture with the one that is working out!

Dentist

The girls have been to dentists before, but it has been a while and they had a lot of fun at this one! There was a really cool aquarium they enjoyed fish-watching, and the dentist pointed out the different types of fish. Both nurses and the dentist were very good with kids because this was a pediatric dentist's office and knew how to get them comfortable. We did find out some news about Shay's tooth that makes our hearts break a little because one of them needs to be removed. With the many times, she had falls that hit her two front teeth, the left side is broken and there is an infection sitting right next to her permanent tooth and we don't want it to get ruined. It's going to be sad to see her without that tooth for so long, but I'm hoping it hasn't already been there too long and it will just be a memory to look back at when she grows up with her beautiful teeth.