Christmas Time

The last several weeks we have been gearing up for Christmas. Two weeks ago mom and dad came up for the weekend to take in the Christmas show at Beef and Boards. They went to the midday show and then Drew and I went to the evening show which worked out great. While they were up here mom, Emma and I made some cookies. We made chocolate chip, peanut butter kiss, sugar, and molasses cookies. Mom also made some Peanut Brittle. Emma had a blast being able to cut our sugar cookies with mom and ended up with quite a bit of flour on herself.


When we were home over Thanksgiving Linda had given Emma a Little People Nativity Set so we put that up by the tree this year instead of our ceramic one. Emma plays with her nativity set pretty much every night. You can rotate the angel that is on top of the stable, one of the doors makes animal noises when it is open and closed, and if you push down on baby Jesus music plays.


Also Drew finished up my Christmas present and being a sweet husband he went ahead and let me have it. I know that he put a lot of time and effort into getting it done and I really do love it. If you cannot tell exactly what it is in the pictures below it is a new billfold/clutch purse. Drew not only stamped out the entire design he also did all of the painting.


As for the babysitter situation after a lot of phone calls and going to visit several different places we have found a new daycare for Emma. She will be starting the begining of next year and beleive it or not this one is within walking distance of our house. I think in the long run it will be a great move because they will be working with her to get her ready for school. Since they do so much with the kids we will not even need to put her into preschool which is great because I do not know where Drew and I would have found the time to take her and pick her up.

We will be heading to Jasper today after I get off work to spend the holiday weekend with family. Heres hopeing that everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

St Nick and New Babysitter

Sunday Emma and I went to Jolly Days at the Children's Museum. Emma has been telling me that she wanted to go see Santa and the timing worked so we went. She had a blast going down the yule slide and playing in the Christmas Exhibit and she did really well with Santa even though it was definitely nap time by the time we got to him. It was really cute because she told Santa that she wanted a barbie doll and then as soon as we left she asked me if we could go buy her a barbie now.




Tuesday morning Emma woke up to find that St Nick had come and could not wait to check out what he had brought her. I told her she could look at it but we had to wait until we got home that night to get into anything. She loved what she got.
Drew could not wait until that night I guess because he had a good deal of his gone by the time Emma and I got home.

Yesterday when I went to pick Emma up from the babysitter I received some unpleasant news. Our babysitter is quiting as of Dec 23rd. Apparently she is getting married and they are moving to Florida. Two weeks to find a new babysitter right before Christmas. Thankfully after several calls today I have found a couple of possibilities that I need to talk to Drew about. One happens to live a couple of houses down from us and she sounds really nice. We were planning on switching some time next year to find someone that would do Preschool with her so maybe things are working out for the best anyway.