We've had lots of fun during the month of December that I haven't posted about. I decided that I needed to clean off my camera and catch up the blog before the major Christmas celebrations begin next week.
Ben took this picture of our mantel after he put up our wooden nativity scene made by John's great uncle Harold Press.
One day they built forts over their beds and slept in them for several days until they fell down. Mollie has been sharing Ben's room for the past month or so after Annie discovered Mollie in the room with her at bedtime. It became very difficult to get Annie to go to sleep. Mollie loves having someone to talk to at night and is going to be very sad when she has to move back to her room.
The kids and I went with several families from church to "Lewis Lights." A local family, the Lewises, create a HUGE light display in their yard that you can walk through.
MawMaw Wilma mailed Mollie a Frozen cape. She's wearing it with her Cinderella dress.
Ben didn't want to throw away his pumpkin (Mollie and Annie's were rotten but Ben's wasn't) when we removed the fall decorations so we added a Santa hat and left him by the front door.
Mollie found a book at the library about making homemade Christmas ornaments. They each chose an ornament that they wanted to make. These are Santa coming down the chimney made out of felt covered matchboxes. This was Ben's choice.
Ben and Mollie made chocolate covered pretzels for their teachers. I melted the chocolate and then got out of their way. They did a great job. They pretended they were rescuing drowning pretzels.
Eating the chocolate off the fork once they were finished.
The completed pretzels drying. We put them in small Christmas goody bags and gave them to their Sunday School teachers, soccer coach, ballet teacher, etc.
Ben played his last soccer game of the season. They played great and won the game. Ben scored a goal. It's been a lot harder to score this season. His team went up to a older age group and they've played harder teams.
Getting a soccer trophy from Coach Lee.
Mollie drew a picture of Snow Girl.
Wrapping our Angel Tree presents.
John worked hard on lights on the little house.
Ben and Mollie helped me wrap gifts. Mollie is wrapping a gift for Olivia.
Ben wrapped his present for Aubrey without any help from me.
Mollie chose to make these coffee filter angels.
Ben built this bowl castle. He wrote on the sign: "Ben's casil. Bilding helper Mollie."
Last night I found Ben and Mollie asleep with about twenty stuffed animals all on the toddler-sized air mattress. They slept that way all night.
