Letters to Santa

Does God know Santa?

We've done a little Christmas decorating around our house this past week. Ethan and Kevin went to the Christmas Tree Shop with me and bought a few items that they thought were "perfectly beautiful" decorations for the house. Not exactly the items I would have picked out but they're excited and the huge gold ribbon wreath only cost $2 so what the heck.

Since the boys were so good in the store I let them each pick something out from the clearance rack for themselves. They both chose Christmas themed sticky notes. After we decorated they both decided they'd use their new notes to write letters to Santa.

Ethan's share day is on Mondays so he decided to bring in the sticky notes he wrote (all by himself - I will be scanning them in to share with everyone soon) to Santa for his share. He thanked Santa for Christmas. And then told him he wants Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 - whatever that is.

So it was very sweet last night when I put Ethan to bed and he asked if he could say his prayers (thank you Grandma). Here's how the prayer went:

"Dear God,

Thank you for this wonderful day. Thank you for Christmas. Please tell Santa that I love him. And I love his reindeer.

name-a-jesus-christ Amen."

Live Y'ers Carnival Camp

Since there was no school on Mon-Wed I sent Ethan to the Live Y'ers camp each day. Their theme was a carnival. The kids went on a circus field trip, learned how to spin plates on sticks, juggle, and of course did some face painting. This is Ethan with his scary striped tiger face. Cute huh?

Ethan loves math!

The coolest thing has happened since Ethan started 1st grade. Whenever I tell him to turn off the tv and find something else to do, instead of fussing or asking me what else can he posssibly do - he asks for math problems.

I'm not kidding.

I filled 3 sheets of paper - front and back - with math problems that Ethan completed. All of them. He loves it.

Thank you Jericho Elementary School!

oink oink

Scott & I took Ethan & Kevin for their 1st of 2 flu shots the other day. Besides being about 50 degrees outside and making us all wait outside for about 45 minutes it went great!

The Science Experiment

We had lunch at Chick-fi-la and the prize for the kiddos was a science experiment. Ethan was very excited because "My Grandpa's a scientist." So he and dad worked on the experiment - I believe it was maple syrup, oil and water. Num-num and Baby Num-Num stood guard while it sat overnight. I don't think the syrup ever floated to the top. We should have colored the oil - that would have made for a prettier experiment.

Pumpkin Festival - Alabama style

It might not look like a pumpkin field but that picture in the top middle is where our hayride dropped us off. And don't you love the animals spray-painted on the big bales of hay?
All kidding aside - it really was a fun day. And you see Ethan & Steven flying down the bouncy castle slide? That's when Ethan's other front tooth got knocked out. Exciting day...