Our Turtle Dove!

Austin had a Christmas performance at Dulwich.  He was a Turtle Dove.  We were very impressed by the performance.  The costumes were great and the kids learned 12 different songs!  Very impressive!  They did a wonderful job.

Here is our Turtle Dove dancing during the performance.  He learned all the moves!  Good Job Austin!

These are two pictures we took at the end of the performance.  He was so proud of himself.  It is always so much fun to see your kids work hard and feel accomplished at the end of the day!  I have a feeling he will be singing the songs he learned for the performance well into 2009!

We Love Gingerbread Houses!

This is Austin with his friend Sid.  Sid is from Ireland and Austin finds Ireland a very fascinating country.  Hey you can't blame him it is a country  filled with Leprechauns.

This is Austin with his buddy Liam.  As you can tell they share the same hair cut!  Thanks for the inspiration Kathleen!

Last but not least Austin with his classmate Will.  They were just as excited to eat the house as they were to build it!  The boys were so kind to let our precious ballerina join them!  She loves hanging out with her brother (especially when he has friend over) funny how that works!

We have a special rule in our home. When we make a Gingerbread house we get to eat it right away.  This is mutually beneficial.  The kids love to eat them and I don't have to stare at stale gingerbread for weeks on end!  So...not only did we get our Gingerbread house fix for the year we also got our sugar fix!!!