Christmas Day

We had a lovely Christmas.  Grandma Becky, Grandpa Jim, Uncle Mark and Ralphie the dog came down from Minnesota and Grandma Marilyn joined us too.  The girls had so many gifts we were still opening presents at 5pm!

Freedman Christmas

The Saturday before Christmas we braved the slightly dodgy roads and went to Muscatine for the day to celebrate "Freedman Christmas".  Amelia had a great time playing with cousins Tom and Abby (and their toys) and Amelia and Tom put on a show for us after dinner.

Zoe Chatting

Time for a Zoe video.  She's been chatting for a while (generally a lot more than Amelia did at this age) but she gets stage fright whenever the camera comes out. . . as you can see here when she notices the camera is on her :)

Christmas Preparations

Well, Christmas is getting closer and we've had a fun few weeks getting ready so far.  The tree is up.  Christmas card pictures have been taken (although cards haven't arrived yet. . . so you may get a New Years card), and the girls have visited Santa once or twice.

Kate's Bell Choir has performed a few times too.  Below are videos of our Jingle Bells Flash Mob (who knew it would be so hard to memorize Jingle Bells), and parts of Hark the Herald Angels Sing.  We won't be playing on Christmas Eve this year so we are done until January.  

Christmas Program

Amelia had her Christmas program at preschool this week.  All the kids are dressed as snowmen with their own winter hats (Mummy crocheted Amelia's).  She got to start off the program by playing bells, just like Mummy.  Then the entire class did a Christmas Story and Amelia got to play the part of dancing "two by two".

Horse Riding

Amelia attended a horse riding birthday party!

Dancing at the Mall

Amelia had her first dance "show" at the beginning of December at one of the local malls.