Week 7, Birthdays, Santa, and Christmas Trees

The first week in December was quite eventful!

Wednesday, the 1st, Reed has his 7th week of preschool! Can you believe it?! It is all going too fast for me! He learned about gingerbread men and houses and even came home with a fun cookie! He decorated a paper gingerbread house and made a gingerbread man and puppet.



Thursday, Reed's friend, Juliet, had a birthday party! Reed was so excited to go to her house and play! They decorated paper birthday cakes with markers, stickers, and pom poms. They also ate some apples and popcorn (Reed's new favorite snack apparently) and then ate 'ice cream' cupcakes (cupcakes that were put in ice cream cones and frosted purple). Juliet kept saying that is was her "ice cream birthday." We didn't actually sing "Happy Birthday" because she doesn't really like the song, but Reed and the other kiddos really had a lot of fun! Reed was also delighted to fine Raisinets in the bottom of the ice cream cone. He actually just took the cupcake off the top and ate the Raisinets - silly kid!

The finished product :)

Decorating the pictures

Eating the food

Brooks - he is the only other boy in our preschool group and he and Reed are 1 day apart! They get along famously :)

Friday was our ward party. It was my last Primary thing since I was released the previous Sunday (I almost started crying when I got released. I really had a great time with those kids!). The kids sang, "Samuel Tells of the Baby Jesus" and sounded great! They had a dinner and then the program. It turned out nice and was family fun! :) I was also eager to see if Reed would sit on Santa's lap. Since his first Christmas he has just bawled or screamed, so I wasn't counting on much. He likes the idea of Santa Claus, but when it comes to sitting on his lap, he is not so sure. So, we got in line and the closer we got, the most nervous Reed got. We let him just stare at Santa for a while. After a few minutes Reed said, "Mama, I like Santa!" I said, "Good!" Then, he went and sat on his lap without crying!!!! He also was very happy when he realized that Santa gives out candy canes! Eve, was another story. She was so excited to see Santa walk in, but when she went to sit on his lap, she screamed!!!!! Ah well, at least one of my children had a good Santa experience. :)



Saturday we put up our Christmas tree and decorated it! Tyson is always in charge of putting up the lights. He has a certain way of doing it, so I always give that job to him. He did that during the day and we put up the ornaments at night. We watched our friends' girls and they helped us put up some of them. The girls left and then we finished putting up the ornaments with just Reed and Eve. It was a fun little family project! Reed did great! He was such a good helper. He did keep wanting to put lots of ornaments on the same branch, but it all looked awesome by the end!

I can't believe that Christmas is coming so soon! The days are ticking down faster and faster it seems! Merry Christmas to everyone :)

Our fun little family!


Reed turned at just the wrong moment. It is really sweet - he will just stare at the tree.