Week 27

I lost 3 lbs this week, which makes a total of 47 pounds!

Ward Christmas Party

We had a very nice Ward Christmas Party on Saturday.

My girls are very excited to go to any kind of a party anytime! Of course they were thrilled that Santa would be at this one!

First we had a nice dinner.

Behind us happened to be one of Aubrey's friends. They were playing "give me 5, on the side . . . "

Then we sang some Christmas carols. I wished I would have gotten this one on video. They were singing "Jingle Bells" at the top of their lungs. It was so cute.

Then we let them get up and dance around to the carols.

A couple more friends joined in the fun.

When I pulled out this dress for Brooke - she was so excited. She said, "A Santa Costume." Then she asked, "Am I going to have hair on my chin too?" I told her that she wouldn't, but I guess she didn't believe me. As soon as I got the dress on her she said, "I need to go look in the mirror to see if I have hair on my chin." I had to then explain to her that she was actually Mrs. Claus and she doesn't have a beard. Several people called her Mrs. Claus at the party and told her how pretty she looked - and she LOVED every minute of it!

Then it was Santa time! When it was her turn, Brooke ran right up to Santa with no fear at all!

  

I LOVE this picture of Brookie and Santa. Right after I took the shot, she patted his beard. I guess she is very fascinated by the hair on his chin!

Aubrey too was very excited to see Santa! She even remembered the next day that he told her to be nice, listen to her parents and clean her room! That Santa's a keeper!

Aubrey's Headband

Yesterday evening we had a Ward Christmas Party to go to. During quiet time I peeked in on Aubrey and she had dressed up her doll in a dress and then made a headband for her. She found a rubber band, drew a picture of a flower and cut it out and then glued it onto the rubber band. Then she put it on her doll. I thought it was the most darling thing! When I told her how cute it was she said, "I wanted my baby to go to the party tonight, so I got her all dressed up." A girl after my own heart!

Art Class

 I signed us up for the free art class at the museum again this month. I knew Aubrey would absolutely love it.

This time we were exploring sound. First we looked at a painting and talked about what they saw. Then they handed out different types of instruments and noise makers. The docent told a story and at certain parts of the story had someone hold up a picture of a specific noise maker and those children made the noise. The noise corresponded to what they may have been hearing in the picture.

Here's Brookie shaking her noise maker.

Here's Aubrey with her maraca.

On the second picture, Aubrey got to be the helper and hold up the pictures.

Then we made guitars out of tissue boxes, paper towel rolls and rubber bands.

The girls enjoyed decorating their guitars.

Here they are with their finished guitars.

At home Aubrey said, "Sometimes people have a string on their guitar so they can wear it like a necklace. Can we put some yarn on my guitar?" Too cute.

It's such a fun little class. I hope they do some more next year.

Princess Festival

 Me and my girls went to a cute little Princess Festival on Thursday.

 It was kind of like an interactive musical. It took place in the Northpole and included some Elves, a Princess and her King & Queen parents and their hobbyduck Nicholas. (aka Santa before he became Santa.)

 Aubrey ran and sat by the other Sleeping Beauties!

They got to play a game with the Elves.

Here's the Princess of the North Pole.

Brooke watched the show intently.

Here they are meeting the Hobbyduke Nicholas. At this point there had been an avalanche and we were trapped at the north pole. Nicholas had some magic dust in his staff, but wasn't sure how he could use it to get us over the mountain. He asked the kids what he should do and Aubrey yelled, "make the reindeer fly!" Too cute!

Then they got to help load the sleigh with presents.

The sleigh was too full of presents for us to fit in too. So they all closed their eyes and used their "magic within" to wish us home.

Then they got to make a snowflake ornament.

And then did a little dancing with a Princess on the way out!

It was such a cute little show!