joel, emily, corbin and elias

Friday, December 3, 2010

Day 3: make cardboard snowman

Make cardboard snowman?! "How?" you may ask. Well, let me show you.

First you take a big piece of cardboard. We covered ours in white paper (paint seemed like too much work).

Next we took three different sized bowls from our kitchen and traced them onto the cardboard.

It's taking shape.

Then we let the boys decorate it will buttons, eyes, nose, mouth, hat and....
Corbin reminded me "He needs a scarf mom. To keep him warm."

We poked 'X' shaped holes around the outside of the snowman for the eyes, mouth, nose, and buttons.

Insert the lights through the back.

And here is our cardboard snowman!!!

"Yippee! It works!"

We are another day closer to MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Day 2: make gingerbread house

Today it was Eli's turn to pick.

We get to make a gingerbread house!!!

Being I made the list of what we would do for the day, I planned ahead and bought a kit!

We got the frosting packet open and starting 'gluing' the pieces together.

The boys each got a reindeer to decorate.

Corbin's reindeer.

"Is this house looking a bit crooked to you?" -Corbin

Corbin put Santa in his sleigh.

Eli's continued to open and eat all the candy to put on the house.

Putting on the finishing touches.

And our sweet little gingerbread house and Santa in his sleigh.

Corbin insisted we needed 'guys' so we constructed some 'guys' out of candy bars, suckers and laffy taffy! Do you see our guys? There are 3 of them....one for each of us...and Eli gets to be Santa. Ho Ho Ho....Happy December 2nd!!!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Day 1: bake cookies

Corbin and Elias were very excited to start the fun!

Corbin took out the card. Today we got to bake cookies!

Corbin had a very hard time waiting for Elias to wake up from nap! So as soon as Elias was awake, we were mixing up a batch of cookie dough!

Elias picked out a couple of cookie cutters while Corbin stirred.

Then they each got a spoonful of flour and a ball of dough.

And they each got to roll it out their own way.

(I should have shown them how to do it before I handed over the rolling pins!)

After cutting out the shapes they wanted, Corbin was scooping them onto the cookie sheet in no time!

And Elias just played with the dough and flour...and that is about all he did!

We ended up with 10 cookies! Yes, 10! Supposed to get 24.

They went straight from the table to the tub!!!

And the cookies were busy cooling off.

Time to FROST the cookies!

This was a VERY exciting moment for my boys!!!

My cookie...with the only frosting we had in the house (I was too lazy to make another mess by making frosting)!

This is how they ate the cookies....

...ONLY the frosting was touched!!!

And this is the very exhausted mom that will not do this alone again....without a plan!!!

Happy 1st of December!!!

Christmas Decorating 2010

After supper tonight, we decorated our tree.

We let the boys have at it...and figured we can fix it later! :)

This is the 'finished' product!

Merry Christmas!

Corbin put the angel at the top of the tree.

This year we are doing something new. We are going to have an eventful Advent! Every day we have a card with a Christmas themed idea for us to do as a family (or for me to do with the kids). We will be baking, crafting, creating and relaxing!