Santa!!!

We got to see Santa at church.

Then Santa drove through our neighborhood in his sleigh pulled by the fire truck.

The girls gathered candy that Santa tossed.

 

Getting Decorations for Christmas

Decorating the house

The girls got tired of waiting for me to decorate the house for Christmas and set up their own nativity.

This was the second year of having the kids take turns playing Christmas songs on the piano while we decorated the tree. Amazingly enough the kids had as much fun making music as hanging ornaments. And there were no fights over who got to hang what where.

We have the advent wreath and Jesse Tree from last year.

Our household decorations haven't changed over the years. Garlands on the stair rail. Stockings over the fireplace. Angels.

 

Lots of gore

Glitter lost her first tooth this morning.

 

Sparkle was so caught up in the excitement that she yanked out her loose tooth too.

This sure beats Sparkle falling on Sunday and hurting her foot so that she couldn't walk. It also beats Glitter getting covered in cupcake frosting on Wednesday, and clam chowder on Thursday. (In her words, it looked like her face was covered in bird poop. She would not let me get a picture.)

More Nutcracker

We got to see our second version of The Nutcracker today. This one was the Houston Ballet version. We went to the school performance. Seats that would normally be over seventy dollars were only $20. We were originally in the center orchestra section, but there was a mistake in the seating chart and we got upgraded to box seats!!!

Here are the girls in their Christmas dresses. The dresses came with red bows in front that the girls didn't like, so this morning we clipped the bows off and turned them into hair bows.

Here are the entries Sparkle and Glitter put in their log books.

 

Nutcracker

Getting ready for Nutcracker dress rehearsal. Sparkle puts her own makeup on now.

Here she is backstage in the dressing room.

Sparkle with the Sugar Plum Fairy.

Sparkle with other homeschool dancers. One goes to the same dance studio and was also in the show. Two friends were visiting from out of town. The short kid is her sister Glitter, who is too young to be in our studio's Nutcracker.

Grandparents came to see the show.