December Pictures Part 2

Merry Christmas Time by Spice

The Christmas Tree is Pretty with ornaments all new

With their shiny, sparkly appearance and all the ribbons too.

I like the little brass ones,

how they golden sparkle shine

The one with baby Jesus is pretty much all mine.

I really really like the lovely lovely star

That represents the one the wise men saw from far

The Christmas tree is lovely but unfinished is this rhyme

Until I say the last words, Merry Christmas time!

(I had Spice edit that poem before I posted it, so it doesn't have her usual little spelling mistakes - I don't think I'll do that every time because I kind of like to remember her poems just the way she wrote them!)

I know it's a little late for this post, but I'm playing catch up since I was so lazy through December.

I wanted to remember the  kids' excitement as we put up our Christmas tree (it's still up - maybe we'll take it down this weekend :-) ):

Christmas morning:

Bud came down covering his eyes so he could take it in all at once

Bazinks wanted a flashlight from Santa.  Santa was nice

enough to leave him some play-dough toys as well.

He needn't have bothered.  The flashlight brought plenty of happiness.

The girls loved their new American Girl Dolls.

At first I wondered if Santa's expense was worth it,

but when they played with those dolls for 9 hours straight

on Christmas day, I realized that they were going to be a well-loved toy.

 

Baby Ray loved his new toy.

I gave each of the kids a new book.  Spice got a drawing one, Bud a Creepy Critters one, Little Miss a coloring princess one, and Bazinks got a shark one.  Bazinks was enthralled with the bloody pitures.

Rock and my brothers got new Nerf guns.  War broke out.

We did a little nativity later on that day.  Excuse the mess. Remember, it was Christmas day!

Spice is the angel; Bud is Joseph; Little Miss is Mary; my nephew, Adgie and Bazinks are the shepherds; and Ray is baby Jesus.  Notice Bazinks staring at the angel while Adgie rushes to see the baby.  He said, "Oh, that's a cute baby".  Too cute.  My brother filmed this on his iphone for me.

Getting ready to eat the "gingerbread" houses:

Also, Baby Ray tasted solid food for the first time (he's a fan):

I am suffering a little from the after-Christmas-blues now.  I miss my family in Florida and Oklahoma.  It's hard going from constant conversation to no adults most of the day.  We're all having treat-withdrawls.  We just got back on Tuesday afternoon and I'm also recovering from my lack of sleep - I can't seem to get up early enough!  There are a lot of things I was looking forward to doing when I got home, but there is so much to do and not enough time!  Hopefully we'll be back to normal next week.  I think I'll start my New Years resolutions again then!