Christmas Hijinks

We're getting closer to Christmas break, one day of preschool left before we use the weekend to pack our bags. We have to leave here super early, to get to the airport in time for our flight. I think we have one of the first few out of springs.

Mia was officially discharged from feeding therapy on Wednesday. This is the last straw in the program. The suit she is wearing is a pressure vest, the pressure calms her down and helps her focus.

Her afternoon preschool had a gingerbread house party. I was concerned at first, but once I was able to read all of the ingredients decided it was okay to proceed. Mia had a lot of fun, though she didn't like getting the icing on her hands.

The finished products.

Getting ready for the brigade Christmas party

The balloon guy was impressive! She wanted a butterfly and that is exactly what she got!

The bouncy house

Mia and her little friend Laeney with their Pink Piggy and Butterfly. I'm telling you, that guy didn't bat an eye when they made their requests!

She's dangerous at minigolf!

She's warming up to this Santa fellow

We had pictures made since we had such a killer coupon

What negative degrees?

We had a winter storm roll through over the weekend and during the first part of the week. The temperatures were dipping below zero and the wind chill was going MUCH lower! On Monday we HAD to get outside! We had been cooped up and only left for a few hours on Saturday to go to the pottery shop and work on some unfinished projects with my friend Carolyn.
Mia wanted to play in the snow so badly, so I put a good three layers beneath her snowsuit, wrapped a scarf around her face and grabbed the sled! It was about 6 degrees I believe, so we didn't stay outside long, just enough to get a few good runs down the hill at the playground and check the mail.

This could be a scene straigt out of A Christmas Story!

Mommy's helper

5" in this particular spot

MUCH more than 5" here! The snow was blowing into foot high drifts right here.

Down she goes!

You can't really see, but she's giggling!

Mia's Visit with Santa

Mia's picture with Santa was a week in the making! I realised that I didn't tell Mia what to expect from Santa at The North Pole theme park, so of course she was afraid of the big strange man with the beard! I talked about him and mom emailed a picture of me with him when I was about the same age. Apparently I was scared witless of him but mom told me that she really wanted this picture, so I agreed that I'd put my hand on his knee for the picture. We talked about how nice Santa is and how much Mimmy and PopPop and Grandma would love to see her in a picture with him. I took her to the PX where they had a nice set up and let her watch other kids sit on his lap. Two days later she had no fear and walked right up to him. Apparently she asked for "an elephant to sleep with, but just a pretend one. Real elephants won't fit in my bed" and "a sparkly blue cinderella dress and sparkly red shoes to match" (honestly. That matches in her world!)

Santa was actually sitting in front of a green screen so they can switch the background according to what the customer wanted. I didn't remember that from our recon visit and put her in a green dress with pretty smocking of a winter sleigh that mom found. When they took the picture, her dress was see through! The photographer said that anything green would initially turn into whatever the background was, but she had a way to fix it thank goodness!