Christmas Memories--Belated

Writing our Christmas Letter stayed on my unfinished Christmas "To Do" List, but I wanted to at least write a few memories from Christmas last year. Some things that made us laugh:

Kayla was the thief of candy canes off the Christmas tree at the library. If I took my eyes off her even briefly, she was always by the tree, grabbing the closest cane that she could get. She was quite proud to show off her accomplishment when she succeeded. She's also really small next to a 7 foot Christmas tree. The contrast always made me smile because she's getting so big now, that I don't think of her as small anymore.

Emma is her class perfectionist. Really, she's probably one of the biggest perfectionists in the whole grade or school. One example from her class Christmas party: the Room Mom had given each child a handful of paper bells and two antlers to color and glue to a red band that went around their head, then the band was stapled together to fit. Most kids didn't bother coloring the bells, just glued them on, in random places on the band, and if they did color them, they were any color of the rainbow. The majority of antlers were just lightly colored with a lot of white paper between streaks. Then there was Emma's: yellow bells meticulously colored, glued equidistant from each other along the band, the antlers a solid brown, on both sides, with deliberate color strokes. She was the last one finished, and when she took her antlers to the Room Mom to staple, the Mom said, twice (with slight variation), "Wow, those are great antlers, Emma." I think it was the equal distance between bells she was most impressed with, but it just goes to show that Emma takes her craft projects and other schoolwork very seriously.

Abrianna: She loved, absolutely loved, wearing her Christmas dress with Candy canes on it. Of course, in typical Abri fashion, it was a dress, and whats even better--it had Candy on it. I only wish the forest green corduroy and red plaid didn't clash so much with her pink boots. (She's in it beside Santa at our Ward Christmas party above.)