Christmas Eve

 Claire

She had a fun spirit week for school getting dressed up as Mrs. Clause on Monday, wearing a Christmas hat on Tuesday, a sweater on Wednesday, Fancy dress on Thursday, and Pajamas on Friday. She also had a Polar Express party on Friday for her class and brought home popcorn and many crafts they had been doing all week. Now she is home for Christmas break and I'm going to have to find fun things for them to do here at home. We put together some graham cracker houses that the girls decorated with frosting and M&MS trying to get them to use them and not eat them. I was there to help them but Chris made one as well and Claire and Shay labeled them all so when Santa comes tonight he can see them. My project was trying to carefully cut little people out of the spare graham crackers so they could have people at their houses.

Shay

Shay has been a great helper this week when I went to pick up a baby swing, mail out Christmas presents, wrap presents and keep the house put together. I started getting sick this week and she keeps trying to help me feel better and it is so sweet. When Claire would get dressed and I told her what spirit day it was, Shay wanted to match as much as possible even when I hung ornaments on their sweaters to make them Christmas sweaters. I can tell she is getting excited to go to school next year and it will be fun for her to start doing the things that Claire does there and bring home school projects. I'm not creative enough to have all that here at home with Shay so I hope she gets a great Kindergarten teacher and experience all of that! I'm glad I'll have my precious Shay when the baby is here (in two months!!) and I'm sure I'll miss her when she starts to go to school next year!