Christmas is fast approaching, which means, of course, that it is time for all of the Christmas songs! Monica's been hard at work these last few months getting ready for her choir concert, and the day finally came this past Thursday. We dropped Grayson off at a friends house, and then I took Brooke and Winry to the concert. It was SO GOOD! Also, the Packers, our friends from CO, have also joined the choir, so we got to see them there too!
On Monday, we had Grayson's co-op preschool at our house. I don't know what the lesson was about, but here they all are, probably counting fuzzy balls.
And at rainbow bridge preschool, Grayson has apparently become an elf. Monica caught this little decoration hanging up in this class room, can't wait for that to come home.
On Wednesday, the building I work in was having a Christmas party for the whole building in the afternoon, so I stopped by before heading off for the train. The party wasn't much to write about, but I was up on the 24th floor, so you could see over more of the city than I usually get to from up there.
Jumping back to the concert on Thursday, here's me and the girls congratulating the lovely lady herself after her performance. She did great, and it was so much fun to get to go listen to her sing.
The kids have been doing a few advent calendars this month. Some friends in the ward dropped off a chocolate one for each of them at the start of the month, and on the 1st we let them open this Harry Potter Lego one (that I might have already talked about). We also got a cat treat one for Jelly. Grayson's dream every day is for Brooke to wake up early enough that they can open the Legos before Winry goes to school, so this picture must be Saturday, judging from all the pajamas.
Saturday morning we had our ward Christmas breakfast. And now that I think about it we all wore matching pajamas, so I'm not sure what day they got to open the advent calendar early. All the kids had parts, and everyone did a great job. They even had a real baby donated to use for baby Jesus! Grayson was back and forth on whether or not he would participate, but in the end getting to hold a lamb tipped him over the edge.
On Saturday, Winry had a dance intensive hot chocolate party, or whatever they really called it (Nutcracker tea party :) ). It was only for younger kids, so Brooke didn't get to go too. Winry had a lot of fun, and of course they try to have a dance ready for the parents to see when it's time to pick up the kids.
Our next-door neighbor stopped by on Saturday at some point and invited us over for an open house that evening at their house. We went over right after having dinner and found out that we had made a mistake. They had a large spread prepared, and it was SO tasty as well! We need to get Monica and whichever of them was cooking into a cooking fight, as everyone in the vicinity would greatly benefit. They recently got a new kitten, which to Brooke's delight, came out to say hello while we were. In fact, after 15-ish minutes Grayson was ready to leave, but I stayed with the girls for quite a while just waiting for chances to hold the kitten (and eating more food and treats than I should have considering it was right after dinner).
On Sunday morning, we had Santa pancakes for breakfast. Winry had hers the normal/proper way, while Grayson insisted he didn't want a pancake, and had his the cup of yogurt way.
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