Weekend Fun

I am way behind in blogging.

I will catch up by Christmas. But for now I am going to post current and then go back and post date as needed.

We had a very busy and not so busy weekend.

Ally is loving her Penguinopoly Game and she asks for Becky to play with her ALL THE TIME. I think they played 4 hours this weekend, starting Friday after school thru Sunday. Ally continues to win – by a lot each game.

Ballet was at 1130

We raced off to the Pet store for pet pictures with Santa at 1pm. Lunch was a Happy Meal in the car for Ally and granola bars for Becky and I because then at

2pm we attended a local dance company’s Nutcracker. Ally loved it.

4pm – as soon as the ballet ended we headed to some friends’ house for their annual holiday and ornament making party.

6pm home – we were tired!

We arrived a little early and had to wait for Santa to get dressed. We had fun picking out some toys for Cloey, Halloween costumes for her for next year were on sale for $0.50 – so we bought 2. And Becky tried valiantly to get Cloey to try on coats, but Cloey did not cooperate. Later Ally said she and Cloey had that in common – they both don’t like to try on clothes. I laughed so hard at that.

We were quite the spectacle at the pet store, the beautiful little girl and her pug in matching sweater-dresses

AWESOME – I was so glad to have done it. Ally loved it.

Then off to the ballet – it was so cold and rainy and we walked a few blocks to the theater. Ally was awed by the giant statue of the ballerina in front of the theater.

Not the most flattering pictures – but I wanted one of the 3 of us, and I tried to capture the delight in Ally’s face when she looked at me and said “I can't believe I’m going to get to see real ballerinas” She was pretty stunned when we told her later that many of the dancers were professional, that their job was to dance. I don’t think she ever thought of that as a career option.

No pictures from the party – but we had fun as usual. This year the ornaments were more difficult and it was an adult craft – we still managed to bring a few home.

Sunday was quieter – Church, opening her advent calendar, more games, cleaning and decorating the house, and playing in her room.

2 gold coins in the advent calendar today. (Thanks mom).

After church this week we brought lunch to the Outdoor Church in the park across the street from our church. Once a month the children of the church pack lunches for the Outdoor Church (for the homeless) and a family volunteers to bring the sack lunches over to the park. It was freezing cold but we did it.

During Church Ally brought 2 of her birthday presents to the donation project for children and families in need. They asked for new un-opened toys, and we had talked about how she received so many toys at her party she needed to pick one to give away. She agreed to give 2 away and I was very proud of her.

We are working on filling up Ally’s Sparkle Box (gifts for Jesus) by Christmas Day.

Ally picked out the doll above – her name is Phoebe – with some money she got for her birthday. First, she giggles all the time because she thought the doll’s name was Pho-bee, which is what I thought that name was for years. But we told her it was Phee-bee and so just laughs and laughs about it. But Phoebe has long hair and she set her up in the AG hairstyle chair, and McKenna in the pedicure hair and she played for a while in her doll Beauty Shop. She kept calling me in to see what she was working on. I was so excited for her that she braided Phoebe’s hair. Ally has been trying to braid for months now – and she did it!

Such a fun weekend.