Sickness, Advent & Chippy returns!

The first week of December was rough!  I was sick for 4 days, barely moved off the couch.  Thankfully Nate was home to help with the kids, but he wasn't feeling great either.  Then Andrew got sick and was out of school for 3 days.  It was a rough week. We still started advent and did more low key activities.

 

They unwrapped all of their Christmas books from past years.  They loved opening all of them!

They also made a Christmas tree with fingerpaint.

My sweet boy starting to get over his sickness.  You can barely see in this picture but his eye was all red from the cold settling in his eye.  Poor guy.

And Ava enjoying some hot chocolate & pancakes while it barely snowed outside.

Chippy arrived during our sickness and the kids were so excited to see him back.  He brought with him some new coloring books and a get well note.  He also had some fun hanging out with Rapunzel, taking a bath in marshmallows & reading to the Ninja Turtle bad guys.

 By the end of the week we were all better and able to go get our tree.  We searched forever in the freezing cold (it was in the 20s and snowed earlier in the morning!) for a tree and found nothing.  It was starting to become not fun so we headed to Al's Garden center and found a tree right away.

 The kids were so cute and really wanted to help me decorate the tree this year.  I gave them all of their ornaments to put on the tree.  All of them ended up in a cluster at the front of the tree.  While they weren't looking I had to move a few around.

December 2-6, 2013