Christmas

 Christmas morning.  Naomi got an American Girl doll from Santa Claus, and named her Crystal.

 Yaya and Pa took Naomi and Crystal shopping yesterday so they would have some matching clothes.

 Milo got a battery operated mouse toy that he LOVED! Here he is guarding it...  Demi got a cozy warmer, a soft little beany that you stick in the microwave, right up her alley.

The aftermath of Christmas!

Christmas Program, Tooth, amd Cookies

 Hannah, Aunt Rat, and Nana made it to watch Naomi's Kindergarten Christmas Program.  They sang songs about Santa, Rudolph, Jingle Bells, Kwanzaa, and

Chanukah.

 All 7 Kindergarten's participated in the show.  The parking lot and gym/cafeteria were PACKED, I couldn't even find a seat!

 Naomi also lost her first tooth on December 15th!  She has been wanting to lose a tooth since before she turned 5, so this was very exciting.

 She's showing her tooth box.  The tooth fairy left her 4 Quarters in exchange for her tooth!

 Naomi was also in charge of sugar cookies.  She's really got rolling to dough down to an art at this point,she knows how much flour to sprinkle down and she makes the dough the perfect thickness.

 She loved using the little bitty cookies cutters rather than the large ones.

 Here is her arm of gingerbread men.  They are all about an inch and a half tall!  She decorated all these cookies too, good thing because they were too small for me to see very well!

Here are some of the decorated cookies, a lot of them got eaten along the way ;-)

Christmas Preparations

This first 3 pictures are from my phone, so sorry about the quality.  We've had 3 snow days so far this December!  So, I had some extra time with Naomi to do some fun Christmasy things.

Here she is decorating her Gingerbread house.  I put it together and helped her with some rolling and cutting, but she did most of the actual decorating by herself.

Not sure where this pose came from...

I kept having to tell her to stop eating the icing, who wants to eat royal icing that's at least a year old?  Well, I guess a 5 year old would.

I also had to tell her to stop eating the candy.  Usually I wouldn't really care, but I bought this Gingerbread house kit in December of 2010 and who knows when it was packaged...ewww...

Ah, good ol' sideways picture...

This is Naomi and me at the River of Lights.  It is REALLY cold!  The thing behind us is a whale if you can't tell :-)

This is us standing in front of the River of Lights sign.  The blurry orangeish thing is Naomi and I'm the dark blob.

This is a Pegasus that is suspended from the trees, the wings actually go up and down.  This is probably Naomi's favorite part, but by this point we had been out in the cold for about an hour and she was freezing.