Getting Ready for Christmas

This year in our attempts to get ready for Christmas I had this wonderful idea - lets do a Christmas-y activity every day before Christmas - 24 activities.  Well, I am running out of activities.  Here is what we have done so far.

1. Write and decorate wish list to Santa.
2. Finish Decorating outside.
3. Read a Christmas Book and Sing a Song.
4. Decorate mini Christmas cupcakes to share with our neighbors.
5. Buy and hang a new Christmas decoration for each baby.
6. Make snowflakes for decoration.
7. Make our own Christmas decoration.
8. Make and Decorate sugar cookies to eat and share.
9. Go to school Winter Festival and see Santa.
10. Watch Polar Express with real popcorn.
11. Make snowman pizzas for dinner.
12. Shop for new Christmas PJs.
13. Make snowman pizzas for dinner.
14. Drive around the neighborhood and look at Christmas lights.
15. Go to Neighborhood Christmas Festival and see Santa (again).
16. Eat Dinner around the Christmas tree.
17. Make Christmas gifts.

We have 7 days until Christmas and I am running out of activities.  I need ideas.  Have Any??

SUPERHEROS!

First practice and game.

Great dibbler, esp. the first day.

Checking out the competition.

Meredith with Sawyer - who she oddly bonded with very quickly.  He was adorable and very class clown like.

Meredith had her first season of soccer this year.  Her team was called the SUPERHEROS.  Six kids - a pretty even mix of 3 and 4 year old kids.  Her first game and first exposure to the game was a mix of fun, sad and scary.  Fun for Meredith.  Sad for me - she is getting so big.  And scary for both of us.    Her coach was a 16 year old boy with lots of soccer experience and good intentions, but no clue how to talk too 3 and 4 year old kids. 

Her first game was a lot like the soccer game described in a children's book.  Six kids running in a pack after a tiny little soccer ball.  Not really knowing what they were doing or where they were going.  During the first two games Meredith was very much a spectator.  On one occasion she actually stopped to pick some flowers she saw in the field.  It was a lot like a storybook.

By the last two games Meredith had a better hang of it.  Meredith was never an explosive player.  But she was consistent.  She had much better focus than most of her team mates.  Her coaches could count on her to go out when they needed her, to follow directions (mostly) and to participate when she needed to .  She was great.