More from Christmas Time

I fell behind in my blogging while busy with Christmas and getting used to working. These are an assortment of pictures I wanted to get blogged in no particular order.

Tristan was so excited for Christmas, he was counting down on his calendar!


The Christmas symbols lapbooks were fun and a real hit. The kids had fun with this. I tried not to be fussy about placement or the exact way to use the components. We did the research and reading for one, two or three little booklets a day through December. It was nice and low key and we all learned more about Christmas symbols. The kids added extra artwork here and there.

Tristan's lapbook is this first series of photos.

Below is the series of Colin's lapbook photos. He had one major problem though, he glued his entire lapbook together! That boy has a heavy hand with the glue!! I was eventually able to get it apart without too much damage.

And here is Hayley's lapbook, below. (Trevor didn't do one. I started one with the kids but didn't end up finishing it)

We had one awful incident on Christmas day. Flower the cat was very, very lethargic (he honestly looked near death and I was trying not to let the kids know) and then he disappeared before I could decide on a course of action and find a phone number for an emergency Vet. When we finally found him the next day (in the cellar next to the furnace in a wonderfully warm spot) he was much better but seemed a little off and a little sore. We can only guess that he was hit by a car or ate something he shouldn't have from the Christmas tree or goodies that were around for the holiday. He recovered quite well though and now is completely back to normal.

Don't scare us like that again Flower!

Freeze got many toys for Christmas and has been playing with them since.

The children cared for the neighbors sheep for 5 days and even did the last day of sheep care completely on their own as I was working and Bobby was busy.

We had a marathon shopping Day and Tristan had a marathon shopping tantrum. A few simple toys from "the dollar shop" saved the day and he was able to regain his composure and behave the rest of the long day.

A third Lionhead bunny was purchased for Colin when he was upset about the other kids getting one and not him. This too was done while I was at work (hmmm, I'm missing things here!). The kids did photograph the bunny in the car for me so I could see when it first came into our family!

A trip to Build a Bear with Christmas and/or birthday money in Hayley's case. Hayley and Colin chose new animals and Tristan bought a Star Wars Darth Vader outfit for his bear.

This photo from the marathon shopping day represent about half of the Christmas gifts bought for pets. There was also new bowls, various toys and chew bones at another store. It can't be seen as it is small but in the cart is a small plastic floating lily pad for the frogs, I thought it was the perfect gift! It was like..what does one buy for frogs???

I think that's it for my catch up photos.