We love Christmas time!

 Claire

There was a 3rd grade Christmas program for her class this Friday, and I was able to attend with Adrian to get pictures and videos for Dad and Shay to watch. She had one speaking part to help introduce a song, and even though she didn't remember to dress up, her shirt looked slightly winter-like. Next week, we have a full week, the school is encouraging them to dress up, which will be fun, and we even got them a new Christmas sweater for Thursday. The shopping was after our family dinner last night, and Daddy took Claire to the toy section first while Shay got a sweater, and then we were sneaky about hiding what present Claire picked out for Shay when switching, and Claire came with me to pick her sweater. She wanted a pink sweater, but the best we found was one that had pink on the words, and she is jealous of how soft Shay's sweater is.

Shay

She got interested in wolves for some reason for a day or two because she found one of our hats that looked like wolf ears. We found a video with information, and she wrote a book because Claire was making her own book, and she colored a picture to be the cover. I was impressed with both of their drawing skills because they focus and work really hard to fully color inside each section now. During shopping, she found a very soft Hello Kitty sweater and a good present for Claire, and I was happy to hear both of them were excited for the other to open the gift they were giving. They also like to guess what they are getting, but they've said several times how excited they are for their sister to open their gift. We've been reading Christmas stories that make mommy cry about giving and being Christlike during Christmas, so I'm hoping it rubs off.

Adrian

He had a really cute moment when sitting with Daddy after work! Chris likes to wind down in the evening on his computer game, and Adrian will come in to sit on his lap. This time, he brought his own computer and was laughing at the animal sounds that the computer was making when he pressed the buttons. I was trying to get a video, but he stopped laughing, so I at least got a picture. He is tantruming a lot today and was mad when I didn't let him bring his noise vacuum into church, then was mad about not being able to go into the men's bathroom with me, and then that I wanted to leave the girls' bathroom so we could go home. I'm just very confused because he has always been the happy boy, and when we visited the church during the week for some different things, he never whined about anything! Maybe waking him up from sleeping in made him extra grumpy, so now that he is down for a nap, things will be better for tonight and the Christmas concert he needs to sit happily through.