Christmas 2012 - part 1

I love Christmas so much and we celebrated over three days so I just don't know any other way to capture our fun without doing a couple of days worth of posts!  Good thing it's mainly our family who read this...  Our first day of Christmas started with dinner with Gramps's family.  Aunt Susu hit it out of the park when she gifted Ellen with lip gloss and jewels!  Daddy has been her favorite model for all of this fabulousness and when she is done decorating him up she declares him "pinkalicious".

 

Most of our friends have boys and just won't understand that picture - just wait there are girls on the way and I predict lip gloss on many more daddies.  She also had a great time exchanging make-up tricks with Aunt Susu.

 

 

Two days later we celebrated Christmas with Cece's side of the family and Ellen was a big help in the kitchen.  Here she was learning the finer points of glazing a honey baked ham.

 

 

I had so much fun sharing Christmas traditions with Ellen this year since she really understood everything we were doing.  We made cookies for Santa and then left them out with some carrots for his reindeer.  Ellen cracked up when she found that all the snacks had been enjoyed.

 

 

She was also excited to find that Santa had left snowy footprints on our door mat.  She was pretty disappointed that he and his reindeer didn't stick around to visit.

 

 

When she was finished checking the Santa tracks, Ellen came in to find all the toys he had left for her.  She was such a sweet girl this year that he was sure to get her everything that was on her list.

 

We had such a great time celebrating with our Little Bee.  Stay tuned for the rest of Christmas. 

Love, The Little Bee and her Momma

Best Christmas Pageant Yet

Ellen has participated in her school's Christmas Pageant three years now and I have to say that this was her best year.  Ok so the first year she was only 6 months old and for the second year only 18 months but she really nailed it this year!

 

 

Here she is singing her heart out to a song about Christmas bells that is set to Jingle Bells.  Her teacher told me that she and Betsy were the only ones who would sing during practice and that they were trying to get the director to give them a microphone so you could really hear them.  Watch out Toddlers in Tiaras!

 

 

Another shot of she and her classmates performing their song.  Can you see that her little mouth is open just singing away?  Her class came back on stage towards the end of the show to sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" with the rest of the school.  Ellen is still singing this song to me and sometimes wants me to join in. 

 

 

Great job, Little Bee!  Mommy and Daddy loved your show and thought you made such a sweet Christmas angel! 

Love, The Little Bee and her Momma

 

 



Christmas Parties

Ellen got to visit with Santa many times in December.  She was a big fan and all her school friends were convinced that she and Santa were very tight.  Her besty even went home and told her mother, "Ellen knows Santa!".  When the Little Bee got a chance to see Santa wandering around the Walmart on our last trip to the Oxbow she said "Look, Mommy, Santa!  Can I go hug him?".  Of course we went and visited with him.  She climbed right into his lap and told him that she had been a good girl and wanted pink toys.  She repeated this performance at the church Christmas party.

 

The Little Bee accompanied Mommy, Cece and Aunt Margaret to a tea at the Heritage Society.  She was so good and enjoyed her first real tea party, especially the huge pink cupcakes.

 

 

When they moved into the educational lecture part of the tea, Ellen decided that she would prefer to head outside and check out the historic homes.  Mommy took this opportunity to snap some shots of of Ellen in her Christmas dress.

 

What can I say, she is a total ham.  The best Christmas party was the one that Davis invited us to at his golf club.  Ellen got her face painted, watched a magic show and chatted up Santa again.  They also had the most talented balloon animal maker I have ever seen!  Here is Ellen requesting a pink watch - which Santa delivered. 

 

 

The same weekend Ellen and I, along with Davis and his mommy, all of our church friends for a gingerbread house decorating party.  By the time the party rolled around I was too pooped to take any pictures but I did get a shot of the tree Ellen helped me decorate.  She did a great job being careful with all of the glass ornaments.  She only broke one but that was because he was a sneaky fox and probably related to Swiper from Dora the Explorer.  Or so she informed me at the time.

 

 

Well, it is now the Saturday before New Years and I just have to catch you up on the school Christmas pageant and Christmas day.  These will all post after New Years (including this post) but I think I can make it - even with the incredibly slow Internet at the beach house.  Wish me good luck! 

Love, The Little Bee and her Momma

 

 



Davis's Drum Line

One of our favorite little friends, Davis, turned three right before Christmas and his mommy threw him one fun football themed party.  The Little Bee was specially requested to appear as a cheerleader.  We did not want to disappoint the birthday boy!

 

The half time entertainment at the birthday party was the high school drum line.  This was a huge hit!  All of the little friends loved the drums.

 

They even got a chance to try their hand at drumming. 

 

 

We had a great time celebrating with Davis!

 

 

Happy Birthday, Davis! 

Love, The Little Bee and her Momma