Christmas Eve lunch

It's Beginning to Feel a Lot Like...

Christmas!!

Especially at the Fatima Shrine, which we visited last night with a bunch of Sylvie's pals.

This outing certainly got us in the Christmas spirit! Now we are excited for Grammy and Grampy to arrive tomorrow so we can start the celebration!

Pre-game warm up.

Gingerbread houses

Yesterday Sylvie and I joined Trystan, Madeline and Jake for Gingerbread house decorating. They had a blast, mostly because way more candy was eaten than attached to houses. 

Ragging her mom

Sylvie learned that her mom is creeped out by this tree ornament:

So she drew her this picture, and presented it to her, laughing a mischievious laugh:

and in case Melissa missed the point, this was on the back:

(That's Melissa and the creepy ornament, kissing).

Our little girl is an imp.

Breakfast with the Big Guy

Another year, another Lion's Club Breakfast With Santa!

Obviously she asked him who is the best dad in the world...

Here's the official shot:

Recent Art

Suddenly she is into pencil sketching. I am not sure where she gets an idea like this one.

This morning she sat for about 10 minutes at the kitchen table and produced this study of the mantel. 

Compared to the original...

These two have seen a lot of Christmases together

Either Frosty is shrinking, or...

Feel better Grampy

Sylvie's Grampy Haley has been under the weather this week. Seems like he's on the upswing.

Feel better Grampy! Syl is sending you one of these!

Trimming the Tree

It's beginning to feel a lot like... Christmas is SNEAKING UP!!! 

We trimmed the tree tonight when I got home from work, primarily because we knew we wouldn't have time this weekend what with all of the other pre-Christmas prep we have on the docket! How did December get here so quick!??

Sylvie is giving us a little bit of pause about the whole Santa thing all of a sudden. She came home from school the other day and said, "did you know some people don't thing Santa IS REAL???"

But she's also pulling things that make us wonder if she might be testing the proposition. For example, when we ask what she wants for Christmas she says she doesn't have to tell us. She can just tell Santa. And there is that little mischievous glint in her eye.

I think we'll get one more Christmas of innocent wonder out of her, but probably just one. Better treasure it!