Playing Catch Up! Part 1

The holidays are always so busy at our house. Starting with Thanksgiving until the end of the year.

When we arrived home from Thanksgiving, Kaylea quickly noticed that there was an Elf on our mantle with a book next to him. The kids were shocked but Kaylea was INTRIGUED! I got the elf down and we started looking at him. After a few minutes, I asked them to sit in my lap so that we could see what the book said. As I read the book, we found out that we were NOT SUPPOSED TO TOUCH THE ELF!! Oops! Kaylea's eyes were HUGE! The book said that if we touched the Elf that he would lose his magic. I could tell that she was very concerned about this so I quickly recovered with "It's okay, we didn't know. We know now so we will put him back up and not touch him again. It'll be okay." :) She was nervous about it but I was able to convince her that it would be okay. The book also said that we had to name our Elf. So I told them to look at him closely and think of a name for him. Kaylea instantly said "He's smiling and looks happy so I think his name should be Happy." The boys agreed so that was his name. The kids were so funny. They would wake up first thing and go searching the house to see where he would be that morning. He sat on top of the stove, on top of the light fixture above the island, on the light fixture above the breakfast table, in the Christmas tree, on the decorations on the mantle to name a few. I think my favorite was in the freezer as I told the kids he must really miss being home at the North Pole and the freezer was the closest place that felt like it. :) Here's a picture of our little elf.

As the end of the school holidays approached, the twins were getting ready for their school play. The day that the kids found out what part they would be in the play, they could not wait to tell me. I picked them up from school and Kaylea said "Mama, guess what I'm going to be in our Christmas play? I'm going to be an Angel!" I said "Ohhhh, you are going to be beautiful" and she said "and guess what Drew is going to be? He's going to be the DONKEY" Before I could say anything, Drew said in such a proud voice " YES I AM, YES I AM GOING TO BE THE DONKEY!!!" haha...I knew that I couldn't laugh as it would just break his spirit so I just praised and him and asked him about his part. In the back of my mind I was thinking (and laughing), only MY child would be so proud to be a donkey! And it just so happens, he was the BEST donkey. He had his first solo singing part on a microphone. Such a big deal for him! Kaylea had a speaking part and she spoke so eloquently! I could not believe how good she did and was not shy one bit! Here are my Angel and Donkey. For the record, Will has decided that when he gets 5 he wants to be the donkey too! Talk about a Pridgen tradition! :)