Christmas Activities

After a long break here are some new blog shots. We have been having fun with the lead up to Christmas holidays. We started with a Health Region Kids' Christmas party through my work held at Zoolights. It was a bitterly cold night, but we bundled up in many layers to enjoy dinner, a visit and gift from Santa as well as a chance to walk around the Zoo and take in the light displays.

Emily was brave for her first Santa visit and was thrilled with her gift, a classic puppy pull toy.

Andrew wasn't too sure about the Santa visit, but held it together to get his present he kept eyeing in the distance.

Matthew was able to have a bit more of a chat with Santa before receiving his gift.

The boys always love playing with the "snowballs" they have out at the zoo.

Even though it was about minus 20, Matthew said he felt warm after rolling and racing around with the "snowballs".

Everyone has had a Christmas concert which allowed for some good photo opportunites. Here are Matthew and Emily before we all went to Matthew's school concert. He joined the Choir this year and they put on a nice concert last week.

Andrew's Winter Celebration was today. Bruce was out of town and Matthew at school, but Emily, Andrew and I went. The children sang some songs and then we enjoyed some delicious goodies.

Even Emily had a concert for her Music and Your Baby group. Here she is dressed up for the big event.

And here she is in her costume. They did " A hunting I will go", which Andrew had done a couple of years ago so we have photos of him in the same costume.

It's all about Emily

Well the littlest always gets the most photos taken, and that is no exception at our house. I guess that is because Emily is changing the most, and is always in another cute outfit! She has changed a lot in the last month. Here she is at Andrew's Winter Celebration eating her snack and you can see she now likes to use a fork.

She also loves to color as of late and is always looking for a pencil and paper.

She is quite the "cook". Here she somehow got her hands on our raspberries and a pot and was putting them in and out, eating a few here and there as she went along. It is hard to see in the photo but she was quite red from head to toe and needed a bath afterwards.

Emily loves soft things and puts on this scarf of mine every opportunity she gets. Here she is pushing her laundry basket. She is close to walking on her own, but still likes to push something, or walk holding onto one of our fingers.

She likes costumes as do her brothers. Our neighbors gave us some costumes and we couldn't resist seeing Emily dressed up as a leopard.

Putting thing in and out of containers is a frequent pasttime.

Emily loves wearing a hat, and really any container will do if she does not have her real hats around.