Christmas Preparations

As we prepare for Christmas, our family took out our Christmas supplies and completed the necessary tasks: putting up the tree and making Christmas cookies.  The girls were eager to help decorate the tree as usual.  Taelyn wanted to spend time with each individual ornament and play with the decorations while Kaelia was a decorating machine.  One by one, she grabbed ornaments and went to and from the tree.  In fact, by the end of the decorating we couldn't find the star for the top of the tree.  We searched all over the house and eventually found it hung on the tree in the back as a part of Kaelia's mission to decorate the tree.  Taelyn did the honors by placing the star on top of the tree.

The girls' best friend, Arianna, then came over to make Christmas cookies.  Each girl helped cut out various shapes and then decorated their cookies with frosting and sprinkles.  The best part was, of course, eating the cookies afterwards.

Next, we took the girls to Sleeping Beauty on Ice to spark the Christmas spirit.  It was a fantastic ice show that also included acrobatic scenes similar to Cirque de Soleil and ballet on the ice.  The girls loved the show.  At intermission, they pretended to ice skate in the hallways outside the theatre and re-enacted most of the first half of the show.  Taelyn was especially excited about the fire on the ice, and Kaelia loved anything to do with the "black ones" (the bad guys dressed in black).