December Recap

Okay, it's been awhile so I'll try to recap as best as I can:

Dan and I hosted Christmas dinner at our house for the first time! We had tenderloin and prawns.


I made gingerbread houses with the girls and they had so much fun!!!!





































The work days went pretty fast and I got to do some pretty fun things with my little grade ones.
Once I was off work it has been so great to spend time with the girls and of course Dan. Here are some things we've done: (I've blocked out the faces of other children for privacy)

We went to a Portuguese Breakfast with Santa while Pa and Avo were in Hawaii. We ate tons of food and Olivia met her friend from school and even saw her teacher! Here we are with Santa and Olivia's friend even joined us!





Look at my little Bohemian Olivia! She wore a headband and a scarf with her flowy dress. Lexie is my glamour girl- the day after I had bought this dress she came downstairs ready to go to preschool in this dress! And Miss Cassidy wore a light color dress to coordinate with her sisters- looking super adorable in her polka dots! I even coordinated myself with them too.









Lexie with her friend at her Christmas concert. She sang her heart out again. I've uploaded a video to her concert to youtube but it's set to private. Email me if you want to see it! (You should see this girl shake the jingle bells!)










Olivia got to wear pajamas for her Christmas concert which means she got to wear pj's to school two days in a row!!! She loves to wear pj's. Here she is singing "Let's all got to Bethlehem".



















Here's Lexie at her last ballet class.












Cassidy did pretty well at Lexie's concert. It was hard to keep her in one place but we managed.












Other highlights:
Grandpa Knox came down to visit us before Christmas but I don't have the pictures on my computer. More to come....

Containment

Have I mentioned how busy Miss Cassidy is? It's all about containing her. Well, all my girls have been busy bees but Cassidy seems the busiest. Maybe it's b/c I'm older, or b/c I've got 2 other kids to keep on eye on but I'm exhausted! Don't get me wrong though- I wouldn't have it any other way. Today we went to Superstore and Cassidy doesn't like being strapped into anything. It was like 2 degrees but holy cow was I ever sweating in Superstore! I was with Lexie and I had to have her chase after Cassidy if I didn't have the angle. But here's the bad news- I'm not losing any weight doing all this running around!!!! Maybe I should lay off of the chocolate....but it tastes so good!
Here's another Santa picture. This is from my mom's school. Poor Lexie had thrown up the night before so she wasn't able to make it. Cassidy was not impressed with Santa but she was okay with the elf. See Olivia's shirt? It's scratch and sniff! She just loves it! Problem is I bought it on sale from Oldnavy.ca and didn't get it in Lexie's size. Now she wants it. It's so tricky- I have to get 2 of everything even if they don't need it! And there are times when I know I need to get 3 of something. By the way, the chef/teacher at my mom's school (and his students) made the breakfast and it was so good!!!!

Ho ho ho!

The girls got all dolled up and we went to Metrotown to get our pictures taken with Santa. Ya, WE. I did not intend to be in the picture but I knew there would be a chance. Last year Lexie was terrified of Santa but this year she hopped up on Santa's knee with a big smile! Olivia was more nervous for some reason- hence the awkward pose. I tried to put Cassidy on Santa's knee and she did the whole "slip and slide". You know, where kids put their arms up and they slide out of your grasp. Her pretty little polka dot dress was all up over her head, totally not the look I was going for. But still, there they are- our 2011 picture. I'm so glad it's done b/c it really is stressful planning for it, getting to the mall on time and then waiting in line. We were at a breakfast with Santa at Grandma Knox's school. So much fun for the girls!!! I am totally and utterly exhausted from chasing Cassidy around. Man that girl can move fast and she has to touch everything. EVERYTHING! Poor Lexie couldn't come b/c she threw up in bed last night.