Finally!

Yes, yes, I know...it's been awhile since I last blogged. But here I am, getting back into the swing of things. There is no way I'm going to try and catch up with all the many things we've been doing over the past few weeks. In a nutshell, David's parents came out for 10 days and we had an absolutely fabulous visit with them. The kids loved spending time with their grandparents: going fun places, being read to hour after hour, being tied up (yeah, that was a strange activity but evidently I have a few potential Houdinis living with me), playing games, and the list goes on and on. Thanksgiving was nice and relaxed, the weather hasn't been too bad, and except for the horrible stomach flu that's hit several of us, we're doing pretty well and looking forward to Christmas.

Yesterday Xander had his Preschool Christmas Program and Party. Because I was still down with the flu, David got to attend. Not only did David take some really great pictures of the various activities at the party, he also captured all the wonderful songs and recited poems the kids did for the program on video. I was able to convince Xander to wear his nice Christmas sweater although he didn't want me to style his hair. Oh, well...he still looks cute. Here he is painting an ornament for the tree. Although the paint didn't dry until today (we're talking preschool gobs of paint on this thing...I'm surprised it even dried at all), it's still really cute with his picture in it. Well, the picture is a little obscure, being covered with paint and all.

His cute reindeer hat.

Decorating Christmas cookies.

The future Mrs. Xander Pierce, Miss Cutie-Pants Dominique, as we like to call her.

Sitting on Santa's lap. On the video, while Xander is sitting on Santa's lap, Santa asks all the kids what they are going to leave for him to eat. The kids start mentioning different kinds of cookies and milk but one little kid replied, "And wine." The parents initially thought it was Xander who said it...pretty funny. If Santa likes wine, he's sure going to be disappointed when he comes to our house.

The book Santa brought Xander. Does Santa know Xander or what? Xander was pretty excited and some of the other boys were jealous of the "cool book" that Xander got.