Christmas Happenings

Over the past two weeks we have had lots of Christmas activities to fill our time. It's been so much fun watching Grace enjoy the Christmas season.

Two Sundays ago we went to the home of one of my friends who lives in an apartment right above Main Street in downtown Lafayette. The first Sunday of the December Lafayette has a huge Christmas parade and there is no place better to view the parade than from Brenda and Brian's apartment. Grace was mesmerized!

Brenda and Charlotte

The "World's Largest Drum" was Grace's favorite!

When the parade was through Brenda showed Grace the joy of laying under the Christmas tree to see the lights above!

Speaking of Christmas trees, that afternoon, we also took Grace to pick out a Christmas Tree. A local tree farm sets up in the parking lot of our Dog 'n' Suds. They have the best trees in town!

We got our tree all decorated Wednesday night. We don't have pictures of Grace in front of it yet but it was so much fun to turn the lights on the tree Thursday morning and see her reaction. She stood and stared at it for about 5 minutes. And surprisingly, she has not even tried to take any of the ornaments off yet. She just looks at it with a big smile on her face!

Thursday afternoon was Grace's Christmas program at school. We had no idea what the program was going to consist of. All we knew was that Grace didn't need to dress up because she was going to have a "costume." The costume ended up being an angel. They put all the one year olds in wagons with sheets over them and halos on their heads. They had each of the other classes sing a few songs and then a couple of times during the programs they wheeled the 1 year olds through. The first time Grace seemed to look right past us but the second time she noticed us and we got a big smile. Surprisingly, all of the 1 year olds held it together through the program. It was fun to see the other classes and to see how quickly kids develop. One kid announced, "Mom is in the back!" Another little girl (from the 2 year olds) screamed the entire time because she wanted to go to her mom. Needless to say, we were laughing the whole time!

Grace's first stroll through the program

Grace's second stroll through the program

A medley of the performances (going from oldest to youngest with the group song at the end)

Finally, this past Friday, our department hosted it's "Fancy FAC" (Friday Afternoon Club). It was nice to get together and socialize at the end of the semester. And it was especially nice to have it at a location where kids could come. Grace wore her Christmas outfit (and then had to change because of a diaper malfunction). Below is a picture with some of the department's other babies (there were 15 of them born in a 16 month period!).

Elizabeth and Sydney Munz; Vivian, Jennie, and Gavin Rosier, Grace and I