Sophie loves to paint and draw things, usually pictures of her family, but she just started drawing lots of animals and flowers. She gets really excited to share her pictures and I love to share them to.

The theme for Sophia's Christmas party this year was 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'. Santa came but she wouldn't even go near him not even for the candy cane. They had a book exchange, played games, got their faces painted, and ate lots of sweets. Everyone including the teachers also wore their pajamas and slippers to the party to get the kids excited for Christmas.

The kids posed in the front yard for Christmas pictures this year. Owen wouldn't even let go of his Golden Grahams long enough to take the pictures. And Sophie of course loves the camera, so much in fact, that this was the only one she wasn't posy posy for the camera. Merry Christmas!!

With the snow came ice. We have a huge Magnolia tree outside and the leaves were covered in ice and the branches hung about a foot lower than normal. I thought the ice looked neat after you pealed the leaf away. A perfect ice leaf!

Well we had our first snow on Thursday and Sophia was so excited. We played in the snow for awhile and she made snow angels. The snow was so powdery we couldn't throw snowballs or make a snowman, but Sophie enjoyed eating it. I don't think she would have gone inside if it weren't for the fact she couldn't feel her cheeks anymore.