Christmas Fun Continues To Abound!

Jesse Elfkin’s elf mischief continues in our house.

Zsolt doesn’t seems to like it when he makes messes. He insists on cleaning them up right away.

But he still tries to convince us not to be mad at Jesse.

“No, no mad elf!”

This morning it started to snow. Big, beautiful flakes.

Then the snow turned to rain.

We headed downtown and had a play-date with some friends.

The boys were boys – they couldn’t wait to get out and play in the mud.

The girls were willing to participate, but ended up watching from the warmth and comfort of the house.

On our way back home it started snowing again.

By this evening, the ground was blanketed with perfectly wet snow.

So even though it was dark outside, we took advantage of the situation, went out…

…and made a snowman!

Zsolt was so excited! He loved picking out and finding different body parts for the snow man.

After we had come in and warmed up, we broke out a new “toy” that I have been wanting to try - a sensory box filled with rice.

(I thought of using beans, but I was worried Anara would try to eat them and choke. Considering the way she went after the rice, I would say the possibility was high.)

Both of the kids were immediately interested.

They loved digging and burying things and dumping rice.

Zsolt played in it for an hour and a half! That doesn’t happen often.

Anara didn’t make it quite so long.

But only because she got SO excited. And the more excited she got, the more she started flinging rice in every direction.

Her little hands were just scooping up rice and flailing at almost imperceptible speed.

Thus she was banned from the box for now.

Our countdown activity for the day is to sleep under the Christmas tree.

Zsolt was practically bouncing off the walls he was so stoked! He never gets to sleep in the living room!

Even as I type, he is laying here watching toy story and reveling in the freedom of the living room.

Wait a second.

What was I thinking?

I hope I don’t have to spend every night from now till puberty convincing him that he doesn’t get to sleep here every night.