Busy day, worn out mommy – more blog tomorrow… pretty sure, Friday at the latest! 

Little hands can make big messes!

With the cold weekend the weather has turned positively warm today! Which meant a slurpee WALK for me once the kids were all set and settled and Ken aware I was out. YUM. 

Today was a bit of a crafty day for all involved. There was glitter for the SECOND day in a row (yesterday it was Emanuel and Zander and their tiny snowflakes). We did much better yesterday on keeping it contained. For some reason keep the glitter at the table and after mommy’s bath she will come see meant walk with it through the kitchen, down the hallway to the washroom to show mommy a container of OPEN glitter… 3 or 4 attempts at sweeping it all up later and I am sure I missed enough that days from now we will be reminded of the event. BUT we have some lovely glittered paper snowflakes. 

Emanuel and Zander glittering

Since every year the kids make their own gifts to give the people in their lives we needed to come up with something new for them to do this year. I have some white Model Magic clay stuff left so I took some of that and our Christmas themed cookie cutters and had the twins sit down and create. They made enough for all 4 of the kids to paint once they dry out. 

With supervisor Echo

Who then supervised Daddy as well

With some work on math, snowflake worksheets and crafts sorted… while not a hugely busy day we did manage forward movement. I am debating which would be better – trying to borrow a copy of Polar Express from the library or purchasing my own. I have the files to make a lapbook with the twins. We have the movie as well, so we will do the lapbook and then finish up with the movie. It may be a bit tough to get our hands on a copy in December. 

I finished a few owls over the past two days… Christmas themed of course. Though the first two I did up are already gifted, I will have two to post for sale (the best/cutest of the two will go up on Etsy as my 5th ad). I do love working with Christmas themed materials. 

Christmas cute

I actually completed two people on my Christmas list over the past two days. It feels good to actually cross people off but the list is still distressingly long and my crafting time limited. We watched the Santa Claus Parade on CTV.ca today. The boy were most excited about the Lego float! 

Watching the parade

Tonight’s big goal is to go through all the presents I have saved up over the months. Some go in bags but the ones to wrap are making an extra trip to Kristen and Fydo’s on Thursday to be wrapped. We have a sitter for 4 of our 5 and are going to go and enjoy some adult (and Echo) time while we pretty up some packages ahead of schedule. 

Karyn, Trinity, Emanuel and I were the only ones at the library for pj storytime… it seems everyone else was at the parade and tree lighting. Our kiddos were set on the library and I was right there with them on that one! With the twins seeing their parade online and the baby really NOT needing to sit in the cold the library was the best choice. We had stories about winter clothes, sang songs and did a craft. We lost a mitten on the way home (paper) but I replaced it! 

Dressed for winter in paper form

Tomorrow we will assemble our snowflake lapbooks… there is cookie dough ready to bake which will require the help of CLEAN little hands. Maybe I will let the boys make their own at the blue table… depends on our level of focus! We do love to bake and gift out some of our yummy results! Now if only I could get SOME sort of order on my busy kitchen table… maybe?

I had to try and get some Christmas shots.. thanks to Cousin Veronika and her sheet!

She would NOT sit still!

But cute all the same!

He Chris is here for a while, he has found a job here locally and is hunting for a place, and with him came the wedding photos from the photographer! Here is a peek at a few! 

This is an edited version

So is this one

Feeding the swans

Some of the centrepieces, though I am not sure why everyone took pictures of them from the BACK