We baked Christmas cookies over 3 different days this year! The girls really had a blast mixing, baking and decorating all the different types of cookies. They even got their cousins Liah and Cedar in on the sugar cookie decorating day. Although I was so busy icing and getting people more cookies/sprinkles/etc. that I forgot to take any pictures of that! But here are pictures from the other 2 days:
We took the girls to Breakfast with Santa at our church. They enjoyed all the arts and crafts activities and the pancake breakfast. They were even tolerably good about posing with Santa. No one was scared this year! Athough there are so many of them that poor Santa is almost invisible in the picture- LOL!
Claire had to do a project on a form of transportation or type of housing that plays a part in Missouri's history. She chose the hot air balloon. She had to write a report on how the balloon worked, what part it played in MO history, and how she made her model. She got an A+ and wanted me to take her picture with it for the blog. So here she is:
Emilie wanted me to put up pictures of her new smile. She lost her first top tooth a week ago. Here's a picture we took that night after many tears shed over her inability to get this tooth out. Finally she agreed to let me try and we were all much relieved when it came out really easily :-)
Happy Thanksgiving! We tried to get a group picture with the girls this morning. Evidently it was not a good day for pictures. We did however have a great day. Lots of good food and fun with both sides of our families. The girls had a blast playing with their cousins, Liah and Cedar. Here's the best pictures we got:
We took Chloe today to get her ears pierced. I waited until the other girls were at least 3 years, but Chloe really wanted to wear earrings like her sisters so I caved a little early. She was excited to go get them but kept asking, "I cry?" while we drove there (her sisters told her that it would hurt- gotta love big sisters.)
She got her birthstone (emerald). She did really well and held very still while they pierced them (I had them use 2 people so they could do both ears at the same time). She cried a little, but her sisters were so excited for her that she was soon all smiles. Then we went and got a cookie at the food court to make it "better." She showed everyone we saw her "pretty ears."
When Eric wanted to see them after we got home, she told him he could but that he couldn't touch them. We'd been talking about how only mommy could touch them until they healed up!
Anyway, here's some pictures of my big girl (oh, and speaking of big girl, she's is pretty much completely potty trained- underwear all day. I'm still using a pull up at night, but she's been dry in the morning for the past week. Pretty soon there will be no more diapers in the Humes' house. Its only been 9 1/2 years...) So here's the pics I took with my phone, I'll try to get some better ones with the camera tomorrow:
