Cancel Christmas!

We have an awesome Advent calendar the Grandma LaVerne made for us. Every year the kids want to put The Baby Jesus up first. I never let them. I make them wait until Christmas Eve to him up. They play with the pieces everyday and we lost the Baby. This happened last year too. I didn't find him until after Christmas last year.

So this year Alex Says :"We are going to have to cancel Christmas if we can't find him." He even told his aunt Brigitte that we might have to cancel Christmas.

He get's it! Thank you Primary Teachers and Dr Sues. Christmas isn't about packages or bows.

Luckily Christmas is saved I found him stuck behind one of the Camel's (Velcro) that was already on the nativity calendar. We have him now Velcro-ed behind his manger for safe keeping and he will be swapped on Christmas Eve.

A Few Christmas Pictures

Linder Farmds X2

Kids Say......

Here is another one for the journal.

Alex: "I got my running lessons from Ginny, That's why I run so fast."
After soccer practice I told him he did a really good job tonight.
Alex: " I guess my running lessons paid off."

Jayden's I think you might have had to been there for it to be as funny as it sounded. But I want to record it because I want to remember it.

Jayden was being very hyper in the car. He does this alot. He likes to scream in the car too. Something we are working on. Somwhere in all his hyper nonsense babbling he starts saying yelling MOOO MOOO MOOO then in a very sweet calm voice " Hi Cow"

Teaching Moments

We took the kids to the Apple Orchard last month. The kids had so much fun. This experience was so great for them. We were able to teach them about Service, a little about Canning, and how you can get apple cobbler from a Tree!

The kids thought it was funny to let the apples hit them on the head. I know. I know. Too many anvils.

Jayden later fell. Good catch Mom!

So sweet!

We put these little ones to work. They peeled all the apples themselves!

"It's Ming Ming" (It's actually Linny)

Boil, Boil

 

 

 

 

 

Toil and Trouble!

Q - "Do you know what they keep in the preservation room?"

A - "Delicious Jams and Jellies?"

                                               -National Treasure

We are saving these for apple pies and cobbler!

The Parents tunnel

Super

Alex and I found a Super Hero store in the Karcher Mall. Alex was in Awe. He even forgot about how hungry he was and how sad he was that the pretzel store was closed. He spent an hour looking at all the figurines before deciding to spend his Tooth fairy money on a Batman pez dispenser. We then went to McDonalds because we were so hungry. A soldier was sitting next to us. Alex says "Mom look a soldier, superheros do exist in this world."

All He'll Want For Christmas....

His two bottom teeth. Alex woke me up this morning to tell me he lost his first of two loose teeth this morning.