Holiday Sing!

During the holidays, our school did a Holiday Sing for all of the parents!  This year we performed in the lobby of the GP Center in front of the giant Christmas tree!  We sang holiday favorites like "Smells Like the Holidays" and "Jingle Bells".  This was the first year that both of us participated in the performance - usually one of us decides to sit with Mom or Dad instead!  We learned the songs very well - our best practice time took place in the car on the way to school or home!  

We wore our holiday best for the special performance!

Here we are - Clara's class sat right next to my class!

Here I am with some of my best buddies - Spencer and Elliott (twins)!

Then Henry and Clara wanted in on the picture!

And then even more of my friends!

Here I am with Hunter, Henry, Spencer and Elliott!  Our last year all together!

Here we are singing "I'm a Little Snowman!"

And here's "We Wish You a Happy Holiday!"

Neighbor Friend!

When it's nice enough to play outside, I always ask to see if my friend Mila can play!  She lives 2 houses down from us and will be starting kindergarten with me in the fall.  We have lots of fun together!

The waterfall (without water) is a fun place to explore in the backyard!

Sometimes our whole family gets together with Mila's family!  Last time we had dinner there, we had a picnic on the floor and watched a movie!

School Fun!

Generally when I'm at school, I'm smiling!  I have some pretty good friends at school!   And of course, I have Clara there, too!

Henry is one of my best buddies at school!  I missed his birthday party while I was in Kansas City so Mom and I treated Henry and his mom to a birthday breakfast at Waffle House before school! 

At school one day we had a pajama day and ate waffle sandwiches!

Here's my class in our PJs!

Over the holidays we had camp days and on camp days we can bring in an electronic device. I surprised Mom with a fun selfie on her iPad!

The GP Center puts up a bunch of Christmas trees - Clara and I had fun looking at them everyday! 

And they put up a GIANT Christmas tree in the main lobby!

Hurrying Home!

When we got home, I was so excited to see there was still snow on the ground!  I told Mom to drive fast so I could see how much was left at home.  

I didn't waste any time in getting out in the snow!  I didn't even take time to go inside!

It got a little cold so I decided to get my snow pants on.  A big mound of snow was all that was left of the snowman!

Since I was out in my snowpants and having fun, Clara decided to do the same!  I guess I'm more fun than Dad! 

When it snows in Atlanta, you make snow toys out of what you've got! 

Back in Atlanta!

While Owen and Mom took their trip to Kansas City, I stayed home with Dad and had fun!

It snowed the day they left! I couldn't believe it - it snowed so much!  When we told Owen, I could tell he was pretty disappointed to be missing it!

Dad wanted me to play with him in the snow.  I thought about putting on my snow pants but decided against it.  Dad built an awesome snowman!  But snow isn't quite my thing...

Helping Dad make gingerbread cookies was more my thing! 

Cousins Visit!

I got to go on a special trip with Mom to Kansas City to meet my new cousins!  That's where Uncle Dan and Aunt Laura live.  My cousin Wylie lives there too, but there were two new cousins this time - Brooke and Brodie!  When we went to visit they were 3 months old.

We were in the waaay back of the plane and Mom let me have the window seat!

All 7 of us ventured out to a cool train park!  Everything was decorated for Christmas. 

Wylie and I had a lot of fun playing together!

I even asked to hold one of the twins - this is Brooke!  I didn't hold Brodie but I did do a good job of making him laugh and helping him get to sleep!

I got to help Aunt Laura make some Christmas cookies and we had a mini Christmas gift exchange!  I didn't mind showing Wylie how to unwrap presents at all!

Mom attempted a selfie with 3 of the 4 kids! 

Wylie's not quite old enough to wrestle with me yet, but I bet next visit we'll be able to!

Here's all the cousins that were in Kansas City!  Almost 5 years old, 18 months and 3 months!

Brooke is on the left and Brodie is closest to me!

It doesn't take much for me to be entertained - I found a big exercise ball in the basement and had a blast with it!  Only had 1 incident that resulted in tears so it was a win!

And here's the action shot in slow motion!

Santa at the Zoo!

This year we went to the zoo to see Santa!  Before we visited Santa we checked out our favorite animals around the zoo.

We came across a pretty ugly bird - he was stinky!  Or maybe it was the elephants that were stinky...

There were all sort of blow up decorations at the zoo - we wanted pictures with them all!

We did some rock climbing and checked out the pandas!

Another photo op that we found with a giraffe statue!

We finally made our way to see Santa!  I was ready to sit with him and share my list, but Clara was still scared.  But she at least was in the same room with Santa this year!

Here's my official Santa picture!  A BatBot was at the top of my Christmas list!

Clara agreed to get in a picture (kind of) since Mom joined us.  But she still wouldn't tell Santa her Christmas list.  Hopefully Bobby the Elf is listening to her and can pass along the message!