These are the gifts Tae took to school for her teachers….all SEVEN of them. Every year we (which reads I) pick a special ornament for the teachers…add some chocolates…and a giant chocolate bar for her 2 head teachers and TADA…Merry Christmas to the SEVEN people who teach my 4 year old.
I found these at Cost Plus World Market…they are handmade in India and represent good luck and new beginnings…thought that was cool…pretty bummed actually that I didn’t get one for our tree.
We had our traditional Xmas Eve at Sister’s house…making cookies for Santa and going to zoo lights…these are the only decent pictures I have. True to my nature I managed to “misplace” the charger for my camera…so my battery died shortly after I snap a few shots…all the rest of the Christamas pictures are taken with our old camera.
Tae’s loot from Santa
It has been all Mama Mia up in this house since Xmas…T got the CD in her stocking and Noni got the movie….after all the gifts had been opened Tae exclaimed with the disappointment of a child who hadn’t gotten anything….”Santa brought me everything I wanted for Christmas…EXCEPT MAMA MIA!!!” And, because my mom is the good Noni that she is, she willingly handed over HER new movie to the girl that wooed her with her 4 year old disappointed face. I swear the movie was on repeat the entire day.
T spent a good portion of the morning on this little treasure from Santa…
My beautiful girl…love her!
So that pretty much sums up our holiday extravaganza…We are in our house now and it literally looks like someone vomited all of our belongings throughout the entire house. Tae is gleefully opening boxes and strewing toys from the old days…back when she was 2…in every room. N is patiently dealing with me as I ponder meticulously where the perfect home for every item would be…very happy when that perfect home is Goodwill or the trash. In time…in time the house will be organized. We are loving the house...chaos and all.
It is an understatement to say that Tae is obsessed with Mama Mia…over the break we were in Barnes and Noble looking at CD’s and Tae was occupying herself by listening to the Mama Mia sound track (with the head phones on)….N came walking over to me laughing and shaking my head…I explained to him that there was nothing quite like listening to your 4 year old belt out “give me give me give me a MAN” in the middle of a very quiet bookstore. Hey, if you have some free time to play…Tae will gladly be Sophie and you can be Donna…just so you know…that option is always open.
Oh so glad that you are back! Wondered about you. Nice to see that Santa brought more then coal over there-yikes! We have to come visit and help Tae with ALL THOSE COOL TOYS! La will love seeing the pics. Missed you-check all the time. Glad you had a good holiday. Good luck settling in-packing and unpacking are two of my least fav things. oh and having a cold =( We are doing better over here though, that for the message. Lots of love to you 3. Thanks for writing again =)
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