Parker's Christmas Party

Parker had his Christmas party at Footprint Preschool today. Parker sure had a lot of fun! All the kids made reindeer food, decorated cookies and had a book gift exchange. It was sure interesting to watch all the boys and girls decorate their cookie. It was a little hard for me to get prepared for all the activities( since I am Parker's room mom) with Nathan there with me, but it worked out. The top picture is in Parker's classroom after all the children opened their gifts and Ms. Tammy opened her gift as well. All the parents chipped in money towards a nice gift set from Bath and Body Works-go figure huh, since I work there!!! I got a great deal on it and she loved it!!!! The classroom was so chaotic, but the kids had a lot of fun!

The second picture is of Parker decorating his Christmas cookie. Man, that boy sure knows how to pile on the frosting, but I guess that is the best part of the cookie right? Then came the sprinkles, and oh boy did he go to town on those.............

The third picture of of Parker sitting in a circle with his class as they were doing their book exchange. Ms. Tammy had them sit in a circle and she would play music and start by giving one kid a book and they had to pass it around until the music stopped. Who ever was holding the book when the music stopped kept the book as their gift. Parker loved opening, or should I say ripping open the gift he got and he got a Curious George book, which he loves!

The next picture is of Parker and his friend Preston. Parker talks about Preston all the time and how good friends they are. I told Parke to smile normal, and that is the pose I got, silly boy!

Last but not least, the last picture is of Parker and his teacher Ms. Tammy. Ms. Tammy is such a great teacher and Parker has had a great year so far with her. She updated me on Parker's progress and is so impressed that Parker can write his first and last name all on his own. She feels that Parker is ready for Kindergarten next year.....................and just the thought of that blows me away!

Random pictures

Wow, its been a little while since I have posted anything to my website here, sorry about that! Things have been really busy lately, between working at Bath and Body Works, being part of MOMS Club, and being Parker's room mom at school, time just gets away from me..............

However, this past weekend my friend Marsha had a Christmas party at her house and Leland and I went, yes we actually got a babysitter this time!!!!!! Leland's brother very graciously offered to watch the boys so we could go out and enjoy ourselves. We had a great time, and Parker had a blast playing Hi Ho Cherry O with his uncle and other games, so it was a win win situation! This party was a dress up party, so it gave me a good excuse to get all decked out in a fancy black dress, put some makeup on and fix my hair. Because being a stay at home mom, that doesn't happen very often, most of the time I'm just in sweat pants and a t-shirt and my hair is pulled back in a ponytail.

The second picture is of Nathan and I at the MOMS Club Christmas party that I hosted at my house today. We had a good turnout, given that the weather was really cold today, (temps didn't get out of the lower 30's) and its so close to Christmas time.

The last picture I took of the boys before I took Parker to school this morning. Parker saw that I had the camera and he wanted his picture taken with his little brother. Aren't they so darn cute!!!! There is no doubt that those 2 silly boys are brothers!

Putting up the Christmas Tree

We carried through with our tradition of putting up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving, well actually it was on Saturday, but close enough. I had to work the day after thanksgiving, so I was a little tired to put the tree up, plus the boys didn't have much of naps that day after thanksgiving, so they crashed early, so it was better that we put the tree up on Saturday instead. This is Nathan's 2nd Christmas, so he was all into the tree! Last year he was too small to help put up the tree, and this year was totally different. As you can see he didn't have a problem helping. All I had to say was, "Nathan can you give this piece to daddy to put up?" and he would just grab it and take it to Leland. It was so cute! Nathan also enjoyed handing off the pieces of the tree to his big brother. I think he felt very important, which he should, because he is mommy's BIG helper! I have to admit there are days when Nathan listens more to me and follows directions more than Parker does:)

When it came time to put the final top piece of the tree together Parker wanted daddy to hold him up to place it on top. It was a pretty far reach for Parker, but he did it! Then really came the fun part..........putting on the Christmas decorations! Our tree looks a little of balance per say because we have to place all the fragile ornaments towards the middle to top of the tree so little grabby hands ( yes I mean Nathan's fast hands!) won't take them off the tree.

Well...................that didn't last long. Nathan managed to reach a bulb that I thought was out of his reach, guess not, mommy was wrong. By the time I could see what he was doing it was too late, all of a sudden a heard the bulb shatter all over the floor. Luckily for me it wasn't a special ornament, so it was ok. What I have been telling Nathan is that the tree is hot so he doesn't grab at it. We'll see how good that works..............