Ally absolutely loves the advent calendar. Sometimes she forgets first thing in the morning to open it – but she does remember in the afternoon. This year we put some notes telling her to go look for things someplace in the house.
What a fun time of year this is!
This week I volunteered to help out making crystals in Ally’s class room.
Ally’s teacher dressed up as a Scientist.
I got to make one too! – Here they are at home.
On Tuesday we got more snow. Ally was super excited to play in it. She did her homework after school and waited patiently until Mama came home to go outside with her.
They made a great little snowman.
And had a snow fight.
After an hour they came inside. Becky was wet and cold, but Ally was warm and dry and thrilled with the play.
Ally was quite sick this week, she missed 2 days of school. Becky stayed home with her on Monday and I stayed with her today. I had a meeting at work, so Ally came into the office and watched movies on her dvd player while I had my meeting. She was so good.
On our way home we stopped at the store. We got some food for the homeless and added a note to our Sparkle Box (more on that later). And Ally decorated an actual gingerbread house at home too.
All curled up on the couch doing activities. The cats have been especially cute lately. Ally wanted in on the cuddling.
recently they started sitting “bunk bed style” on the chair. Buying food for the food pantry at the supermarket.
Super excited to see the gingerbread kit! Working on it with Mama.
The finished product! And yes that is a jelly- candy Bumble!
I volunteered to help out in Ally’s first grade class to assemble “gingerbread houses” this was actually use frosting to adhere graham crackers to milk cartons. But fun nonetheless. I was very skeptical about the success of this method. But the teacher was right – it worked and the students had a blast.
I was there one day to make the houses and the next day different parents went in to assist with the decoration.
I helped Ally, and her table – Oscar, Bleuet and Dean.
Max is showing off his finished house. Then it was off to work on Origami with her teacher.
The finished house.
