We decorated cookies. The children very loosely define what constitutes a "Christmas" cookie, so we had Christmas owls, Christmas bunnies, and my favorite, the Christmas bat.
Me with excellent helpers Ava, Blythe, Blake and Crew cutting out cookies.
Decorating.
I am helping Blythe so the sprinkles to cookie ratio doesn't get ridiculous.
Here is Brandt's green bat with chocolate sprinkles.
Very Christmas-y.
Blythe is practicing the "eat-as-you-decorate" principle.
She has an angel and holly, both frosted brown, and something unidentifiable (but still tasty) frosted yellow.
After decorating cookies, we had a little story time/singing time. We sang several songs while playing jingle bells and sticks, and then I read the children Santa Duck. All of the children played and sang with me, and most of them listened to the story. The singing must have been a hit because Crew asked me later if we could sing more songs.
Using the jingle bells to sing Jingle Bells.
Everybody sang except Brandt, who conducted.
He always conducts.
Makenna, Ava, Griffin, and Crew intently listening to Santa Duck.
Story time was followed by an exciting game of Christmas Bingo.
Hooray for M&Ms!
Crew and Blythe.
Blythe didn't wait for all the pictures to be called; she just filled in all the squares and eat the extra M&Ms.
Brandt looking to fill in another space.
That's me beside him.
Blake was the first one to get a legitimate blackout.
An unplanned (at least by me) part of the activity, organized by Brandt, was the removal of all the couch cushions which were then stacked on top of the coffee table and then climbed and leapt off of. It didn't last long as Grandma Sue was not thrilled with this part of the party.
Look at that impish smile!
Each week at story time at the library, there is a puppet show. Grandma Sue has nativity puppets made out of wooden spoons, so while I read the Christmas story from Luke and Matthew, the children did a puppet show for us. The appearance of various characters did not always coincide with the text being read, but it didn't really matter. The children were delighted to be putting on a show for the adults.
At the beginning, as we prepared for the show.
And at the end. The in between parts were fairly silly, which is difficult to convey in a photograph.
Take my word for it though.
We had a great time and feel so fortunate to live close to all of Brandt and Blythe's DeMartini cousins, and most of their Barrus cousins too. We love to be with them.
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