Caleb and Owen seemed to thoroughly enjoy watching Elf with us last evening. I think the adults were enjoying it as well … at least this one was. I think it might get added to our Christmas classics short list.
Thanks, Lyn and Bob, for another very special Christmas gathering. We really enjoyed seeing everyone and eating and drinking too much. Just wish I’d gone home with the yodeling pickle. ;D
I built this play fridge for Caleb and Owen — an addition to the kitchen set they received for Christmas. I hope they have as much fun playing with it as I had building it.
Thanks so much, Sebastian, Anna-Marie, and Jeff. We’re keeping it out all year long!
And, for those who haven’t already seen Sebastian singing “Hippopotamus for Christmas”:
We just got home from a wonderful evening at Lyn and Bob’s. The family, sans Kris, Deborah, Nathan, Cooper, James, Jackie, Jeff, Anna-Marie and Sebastian, were in attendance. There was an art raffle (artwork by Amanda and Zach) to raise funds for a lamp for their clubhouse (basement closet), lots of great food, and the gift exchange. The children were much more a part of the festivities this year, and they seemed to genuinely enjoy seeing each other. Liam and Caleb became good buddies over games of tic-tac-toe. Ma made Liam cry by pretending to have stolen his plate of cheese and crackers.
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Christmas decorations . . . and mallets.
We had a great day for the Thanksgiving gathering yesterday — sunny and just cool enough to dissipate some of the heat from the kitchen. Rain had been predicted, but it held off until overnight — when it came down as snow! Now it does feel like Christmas is just around the corner. Caleb said, “Today’s the first day of Winter! When we get home we need to get our Christmas tree up.”
First Snow 2009
It’s been a good year and we have much that we’re thankful for. In a few hours we’ll sit down for the annual feast, and in a few hours and a few minutes we’ll declare how we over-indulged yet again. Then, hopefully, we’ll embark on another year that’s as good as this one has been.
The last couple days have been fun-filled.
Yesterday we went downtown to Chriskindl Mart and the ice skating rink. Grandpa, Mike and Caleb tried the ice skating — not for long, but no one fell and no one was hurt! Grandpa, Jen, Caleb and Owen rode the carousel. We saw toy makers from Germany at work and visited the marble museum. After we returned home, Caleb and Grandpa did some wood working in the basement — a bird house and a partially complete wooden snowman resulted — again, no one got hurt!
Today we visited the art museum to see Machines at Play. The grandchildren liked the building and were a little tentative about the exhibit. However, after the first viewing, Caleb asked to revisit the Machines at Play and suggested we go home for lunch and come back again with Aunt Jean and Uncle Bob, so they could see it. I think it was a success. Video here.
Below are some pictures.
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