Saturday, December 22, 2012

Counting Down to Christmas

We've been very busy getting ready for Christmas! And we're so excited that it's almost here. The very first thing we had to do was to get my very first official haircut so I would look good for the season. Here are the before pictures:

I was ok at first...
but then she actually started cutting my hair. I just tried to get out of her reach.


Finally I gave in and sat still. Overall, I did pretty great!

And I looked spiffy in time to take our Christmas card photo. We tried to get some good pictures at the park. Just don't look too closely to see how dirty we actually are...

Grandma came to visit and she helped us make gingerbread cookies.



Then one night we got into our Christmas pajamas and went out to look at the Christmas lights. It was so cool!




At my "school" we performed a Christmas show for our parents. We did it two times- on Friday our friend Ms. Cheri (Violet's mom) took pictures of me and on Monday, Daddy came and took a video. My class was the animals in the stable with Jesus. I was a cow.

Both times I sat very nicely (amid the chaos) and watched everything going on. At home, I'll do all the hand motions to the songs, but in the program I (and every other kid) just sat and watched. 

My shining moment was when we all got up and danced with scarves to "Camel Caravan". Quinn came to join me then, too.





And here's a little bit of the video from the Monday performance. I'm wearing a black sweater. Here's a snapshot to help you find me:


And now we're in Virginia with Grandpa George waiting for Christmas to get here!