December 2011

John takes a family picture every Christmas - since it was Sunday at least we're all dressed up! I love Levi's face on this one :).

Ellie fits in the stocking! I couldn't find pictures of her brothers in the stocking from when they fit......

She apparently is trying to recreate last year, when she was the gift under the tree (see next picture). Actually, she wasn't too interested in the tree, which I was surprised. She did go over and take ornaments off a few times, and felt it, but mostly left it alone.

Our 2010 Christmas present :).

We got some firewood, just to be prepared if we needed to heat our house with our fireplace. Ian and Levi were good little wood carriers!

This is how Ian spent most of December :). When he has a good book, he just reads and reads. Sometimes it's hard to keep enough good books! When he reads shorter chapter books, he can be done with it the same day we get it from the library.

Ian earned his Wolf Badge!! Okay, he really finished it the beginning of November, but they didn't have pack meeting until December. And, the badge hasn't come in yet so he doesn't physically have it....but this is him looking up at the Cubmaster who was announcing his awards. He earned his fourth bead, his Wolf, and a gold arrow point! Way to go!

Caleb, trying out the rocking chair Grandpa and an uncle made. It's for Ellie, but is the right size for Caleb and Levi. Levi loves to rock, he really likes it. Ellie sits in it and rocks, but she's sitting straight up and so the back of the chair comes and hits her in the head. And the cars were handmade made by Grandpa/uncle, too, they're pretty fun!

This is my attempt to take a cute Christmasy picture of Ellie in her pretty dress someone gave her. She wasn't too happy on Christmas, this is the best I got.

It's a tight fit! Hopefully Caleb doesn't move too much in the night, there's no room between his box of books, Buzz, and stuffed friends! At least we talked him out of sleeping in the "nest" he made that didn't even allow him to lay down.

One day I put out a couch cushion to see if Ellie can crawl over it (she can, if she wants to). Now her brothers love to try and entice her over. But they put toys, especially music ones, that she can just sit and watch over the cushion! It's not very effective.

Gingerbread houses! We invited a family over to make them with us, it was fun. I didn't get a picture of John with the stable he made, however.