Happy New Year!

Now that both the children like crab legs, I think it is safe to say that our family tradition of a seafood dinner on New Years Eve will continue!

Look Who's Tying Her Shoes!

Elsie was so excited to be able to "tie a bow". She has practiced over and over, and has been telling us that now we can buy her tie up shoes!

Christmas 2015

Here is our Holiday in a nut shell!

Merry Christmas Eve Morning!

Didn't Make It

Sleeping Under the Tree

Alstan and Elsie wanted to try to sleep under the tree tonight. I did say, "try", so we'll see how this goes.

Blogging

As some of you already know we now have a couple more bloggers in the family. Alstan and Elsie have started their own blogs. This has given Alstan a great opportunity to share his ideas while getting in a little spelling/writing practice. For some of the first post he made mom do the writing, and then he did a couple where he wrote and later had mom fix mistakes. Now he has taken over the writing and mom just interprets in parenthesis underneath.

alstansdinos.blogspot.com

And Elsie is enjoying having people view her post too.

princesselsiemarie.blogspot.com

Holiday Baking Challenge

Mom wanted dad to record the Holiday Baking Championship this year. The whole family has ended up watching the last three or four episodes. The result has been that Alstan and Elsie want to do their own baking challenges. We put out a variety of ingredients on the table and told them they had to make a holiday snack for children ages 4-6.

Here we go:

Check out their winning treats.

Alstan's Christmas Concert

Alstan is in the blue striped sweater three in from the end. In the videos there is another row of kids in front of him, so it is a little more difficult to see him.

Elsie's Christmas Concert

Here are some videos from Elsie's concert... Ok all of her concert. She was so excited about it, but it is kinda hard to tell from the videos. She said she saw where I was standing but as you can see she doesn't look in my direction. It was pretty crowded in there and I think she felt a bit overwhelmed.   

Cookie Making

This post is almost a week late now, but still in the correct season!  Last weekend was Christmas Cookie making at Aunt Nette's. We has such a good time and came home with way more cookies than a family of four can eat!

First Gifts Under the Tree!

There is lots of excitement in the house! Alstan and Elsie wrapped their gifts for each other tonight. Let's see if they can keep their secrets until Christmas.