She was pretty excited about it. I love this girl.
I've always loved nativities at Christmas and as a little girl I remember collecting and organizing all of my Mom's nativities when they were out. I'd have all the Mary's conferencing in one corner of the room and all the Joseph's in another, etc. So I'm not surprised that my girls are always playing with the nativities they can reach. Brooke was feeling very creative on Dec. 6 and build this manger out of tinker toys for her doll (complete with some of the tree ornaments and a few random nativity pieces under it). I thought it looked like a spit for roasting a whole pig and thought it was so funny. I'm weird, I know, but there you have it. Our roasting manger.
There was a time when I bathed all of my children all at once all the time. But that time is no more. So I thought I should document the four little cuties all together in Mom's big tub on Dec. 7 for a before-church bath. They had a great time. And splashed like you wouldn't believe.
This lovely drawing was what Candy drew when her joy school class made cards to pass out when they performed the Christmas story at some nursing homes. I told the kids to draw their very best nativity scene. Candy drew this and when I asked her about it, she mentioned it had a rainbow, a boat, and some water. "Okay, but where are Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus?" I asked. "Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus are not in this picture," she responded. We decided to let her classmates' more traditional pictures grace the cards we actually handed out and saved this one just for our family. I love 3 year olds (another classmate filled his entire paper with black marker and orange streaks and told me it wasn't Jesus, it was a garbage truck...his didn't make the cut either!)
Megan had her very first piano recital on Dec. 12. She had been practicing hard and performed "Jingle Bells" beautifully. It really is amazing to see how much she's learned in just a few months of piano lessons. She doesn't always love the practicing (and especially the theory pages), but she loves making music.
Brooke was hamming it up and I had to take a picture of them together before she'd let me do some individual shots of Megan.
And Candy (never wanting to be left out) then insisted on her own picture. Squinty eyes and all.
