Tots and Me... Growing Up Together: December 2018

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Wordless Wednesday: December 26, 2018 (w/linky) - Christmas Celebrations

We had a lovely time celebrating Christmas on Christmas Eve with some of our family.

First there was Gingerbread Village Making:

And Gingerbread House Wrecking

Then we took some Christmas Family Portraits by the tree.

And then we exchanged gifts:

Christmas Morning

Playing our Wise Men (and a Shepherd) Race to the Stable game to see who gets to GIVE the first present.

Tabitha and Amelia made this huge card for the rest of us.

It means so much to me that the children love giving each other gifts. I love seeing to expressions on both the giver and the receiver.
Here are some pictures of Amelia giving her presents yesterday. Daddy was thrilled that she found an older Carman Licciardello CD at the thrift shop. And Amelia had used her allowance a month ago to purchase Icy the seal from Tops for Harold because she knew how badly he wanted it.

Here are some pictures of Tabitha giving out her presents.

And here are some pictures of Harold handing out her presents.

And finally, here is Hannah handing out the gifts she chose.

I think the hubby likes his present. He's only been asking for a Keurig like forever.

We spent the rest of the day relaxing and enjoying our new toys.

Looking forward to seeing your Wordless (or not so wordless) Wednesday posts this week.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Wordless Wednesday: December 19, 2018 (w/linky) - More Melk Fun!

Every weekday morning, Melk is ready for something different for us to do to focus on God during this Advent season. Sometimes, we don't get to them right away, but we do try.

Making a nativity scene

We put it under our Advent Countdown Tree

Making a Gingerbread Village

Planting Candy Cane seeds

Reading The Legend of the Candy Cane and talking about the symbolism found in the candy cane.

Making Peppermint Candy Cane Cookies to take to the church Christmas program.

Mr. Matt, the Venture Club leader, personally invited Melk to our program. Melk was thrilled. Here they were making crafts.

Then it was time for the songs and performances.

And then it was snack time.

Here Melk and his friends are excited to see the Christmas tree and can't wait for us to get it up so it can get decorated. That was two days ago. We actually only just got it up today.