Gingerbread Again

Except this time it's real gingerbread, not paper
and we made a tree, not a man.



Isn't that smile too cute for words?!?!

Camden and I mixed up green and white frosting, stacked the gingerbread stars and decorated our little edible tree. It turned out cute, not exactly tasty but how yummy can stale prepackaged gingerbread pieces be? If you asked Camden he thinks eating it was just as much fun as decorating it.

Little Drummer Boy

This is more reminiscent of Stomp rather than the
"rum-pa-pum-pum" of the Little Drummer Boy.



I think we have a little percussionist on our hands.
And no, that is not a "okay" for anyone to buy him a drum set.

Holiday Show Off

Camden completed the fall session of his gymnastics class. In honor of the season's final class they invited the parents into the gym to take pictures and video. Camden showed us all his moves,
tricks, flips and cartwheels.



The little guy is strong, flexible, fast and has a good sense of balance.













Towards the end of class a special visitor came to wish all the kids a "Merry Christmas!" Camden specifically asked for a race track that sticks to the wall. Which, having conferred with Santa, he isn't getting. Although I'm sure he'll be just as excited to get a normal
race track that runs on the floor.





After waiting patiently on the sidelines, or should I say being held by Brian on the sidelines, Deegan got in on the gymnastics action by jumping into the foam pit. Once he dove in he didn't want to get out. Maybe we have a second little gymnast on our hands?

Pompom Christmas Ornaments

I had this vision of having the boys make homemade ornaments for gifts for those special teachers and our neighbors. My first thought was to have the boys swirl paint around ball shaped plastic ornaments but after a tester before I let the boys loose I decided this
wasn't the way to go.



It was messy, didn't look like I wanted them to and took a long time to dry. Plan B? I dumped out a bag of red, white and green fuzzy pompoms and had the boys stuff them into the ornaments.



This, as it turned out, was perfect. Both of the boys were able to easily fill the ornaments, they look super cute and no drying time was involved. After finishing them off with red and green ribbon
they are ready to be gifted.

Nativity Scene

After a lot of coloring, cutting and the application of glue and tape our nativity scene is complete
.


I used a template I found online; printed the stable and backdrop out in color (to save on coloring-I've very well aware of Camden's coloring attention span) and the figures out in black and white. Camden and I spent two afternoons coloring and a third afternoon putting it all together. Deegan even got in on the craft by coloring baby Jesus.

What Is It About Dirt?

I think dirt must have tiny magnets in it that attract clean little boys.





I cannot take Camden and Deegan outside with them needing a bath afterwards. During the summer this wasn't such a big deal because I could just spray them down with the water hose but now that it's "winter" they have to be stripped down before walking through the house to take a bath.

Bucket-O-Rice

When dumping the pictures off of my camera I came across these and can't believe I never posted them. I took them close to a month ago on a warm afternoon when we dumped out the rice bucket on a table cloth in the backyard. I gave the boys spoons, cups, bowls and trays for them to play with. They spent close to an hour digging,
pouring, and souping the rice.