Preschool Christmas Party

This past Friday was the 2-year old Christmas party at school and it was hosted by non other than the Smiley's! Each parent was asked to pick a holiday in which to host a party and based on the remaining selection, which was Christmas, Easter, and May Day, we chose Christmas as it may be difficult to arrange a party with a newborn. The class enjoyed listening to Christmas stories, singing "Jingle Bells," and icing/decorating sugar cookies. Luckily for Tatum, Mike had the day off so he was able to join in the fun.

Being very silly - as she always is!

It was a challenge to keep them from eating the cookies too soon!

Patiently waiting for their icing

Elise eating her cookie

BFF's!

Thanksgiving 2009

Since we were unable to leave town for Thanksgiving we were happy to be joined by my mom, and brother, Greg, who flew in for the holiday from St. Louis. With Mike's Q3 call schedule (i.e. on-call every third night) getting sleep is a challenge so there was no question that we would be in Norfolk for the weekend. We had a great time with my mom and Greg and we enjoyed a delicious non-traditional Thanksgiving dinner on Friday (because Mike worked on Thursday) with our friends, Josh and Rebecca, along with their children, Elise and Caleb, and their respective family members who were in town. We had a great time celebrating and we forgot that it was not the actual "Thanksgiving day."

For the most part we laid low throughout the weekend since it was cool and rainy but we did get the chance to sneak in a visit to the zoo on Sunday as it was sunny and 65 degrees outside. We enjoyed one of the last visits of 2009 to the zoo and Tatum had a great time showing "gamma" all the animals!

Watching the world globe water fountain

Tatum [anxiously] feeding the goat