M O N E Y

Santa knows how much Emily loves money. It is one of the things she plays with the most. He thought it would be a good idea to leave money, he had collected form his travels, for Emily. He enlisted help from elves far and near and now Emily has over 150 pieces of foreign money. Besides the Mary Poppins outfit, this was her favorite present...she played with it most of the day!

Spit Spot

In keeping with her tradition, Emily only asked for one thing for Christmas this year and it happened to be a Mary Poppins outfit. Her BIG Mary Poppins phase was 2 years ago so I am not sure where this idea came from but with the help from a lot of elves she received a great costume. She wore it all of Christmas Day, even to the movies!

Presents and Pizza

After we finished ice skating we brought all the kids back to our house for presents and pizza. 

It was a great day!

 Emily and the girls

 Junior

 Betty

 Princess inspecting her gift

group shot!

Christmas Eve

For the fourth year in a row we had many of "Doug's Kids" over on Christmas Eve. We went ice skating first and I have to say, they were all a bit better than last year. Emily was in heaven because we brought Gabby with us too!

Emily pushed with only the left foot and glides on the right, never vice versa.

 Betty

 Peace, Betty ( my favorite), and Julie

Gabby and Emily

In Emily's Exact Words

"On Thursday I was so excited about gingerbread day! Because I love to decorate and frost the candy. We didn't get any work done at school that day. I also handed out candy canes to my friends at school. We also made cookies. We ate one cookie that was already decorated and we decorated a cookie and ate it!"

Art Class

For 9 weeks Emily took an art class at The Currier. Below are a few things she made, most projects they worked on for more than one week.  They learn about different artists, an artists perspective, different techniques...she loves it all!

 Clay

 an owl made from model magic

 still life

 learning about Picasso

sculpture

One Minute Challenge

How could I have missed this one! Johnny watched Emily do the one minute challenge with Grammy last weekend and he decided to do one of his own. Emily was impressed that he wrote ELF 36 times!