Mommy and Me Academy

December Third

We started the day with a North Pole Breakfast. I got this idea from other Elf on the Shelf enthusiasts on Pinterest.

The table the girls woke up to...

Big Santa Breakfast (hashbrowns, sausage and bacon), Snowballs, and Snowman Soup (hot chocolate with LOTS of marshmallows).

Oops, caught in the act! :)

After our yummy breakfast we went to....

Disney on Ice's Toy Story 3! We had a great girls day with Grandma, Great Grandma, and Rachel.

December Second

Frosty the Snowman puppets were the activity of the day!

Every year I have wanted to do a special Christmas activity each day of the month of December. This year, I made a flip book with a different activity on each of the 24 days before Christmas. The first day's activity was to write a letter to Santa.

We wrote out our ideas, and a draft letter, but after all of our other school work, we decided to wait to write the final draft for another day.

The girls got to decorate their little bedroom trees.

They got to pick out a few different ornaments from Walmart, and they chose, pink balls, blue balls, and purple slippers. They shared all of the ornaments.

We did some Ready2Read review.

And some small book coloring and reading. We also read a couple different versions of The Three Little Pigs. It is so fun to read the same story told in a different way.

Ice Skating Day and Wreath Fun

We found Chris the Elf in the stable with baby Jesus. :)

The girls are getting really good at skating!

When we were at the Dollar Tree, we picked out $10 worth of supplies to make THREE wreaths (including the hangers!). The girls had so much fun with this little project and loved hanging them on their bedroom doors.

Decorating for Christmas

I love decorating for Christmas on Thanksgiving weekend. It seems that the holidays go by too quickly, and I want to squeeze every last second out of our beautiful Christmas time.

Our "formal" tree and the special First Christmas ornaments.

Our beautiful nativity scene that was Daddy's Grandmas.

First Christmas hand and footprints.

The downstairs "informal" tree.

Book boxes by the two fireplaces. Filled with lots of good reads, can't wait to snuggle up and read these.

Thanksgiving Week

What a busy week! We fit in some school work with all the fun activities. We took Great Grandma to lunch for her birthday and then shopping for Christmas dresses. We had our second Pizza Hut Book It party for Selena. At the library, I picked out some new easy-reader books and they were a huge hit. We have hit a block with our reading lately, and this helped get some motivation to keep trying. I think we were in a rut with Bob and phonics readers. (She especially likes "Hop, Hop, Hop") We also practiced setting the table and making place cards.

Cleaning the floor before setting the Thanksgiving table.

Our friendly Elf on the Shelf, Chris, made his appearance!

Our new "pets," cast offs from the public school's third grade classes. SNAILS! We've had some before, the sure make for interesting entertainment!

Our place cards, we made each person a little Pioneer, Indian, or Pilgrim and Selena wrote everyone's names on a leaf doily.

The table, set with some yummy bread and dip and my little helper! Thanks Bean!

Snuggle Bunny time!

Thanksgiving books from the library...

We especially liked "Thanksgiving Mice" "A Turkey for Thanksgiving" and "Setting the Turkeys Free"

Abby's Birthday Party

Happy Birthday to my little baby. We celebrated with a family dinner. Unfortunately the pictures are on Grandma's camera... I'll have to come back to this post :)