Gingerbread Houses

 Chris and Jonny worked on our annual gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve.  We decided to try mini houses this year, with the hope that they would hold together better than big ones.  We found out that they fall down, too!  But we got some put together, kept them for a few days, and then Jonny even munched on one!

A Christmas Surprise!

After Christmas, we took our tree outside and found a surprise!  There had been a bird nest in our tree all along and we hadn't seen it!  We had decorated our tree and undecorated our tree, but it wasn't until we were carrying the tree out that we saw it!  It gave us a good laugh!

Christmas 2015

Jonny LOVED this package that he got in the mail!  He got it out every day to hold it and look at the picture!

Jonny the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Jonny came home from kindergarten on the last day of school before Christmas vacation, wearing this cute reindeer hat.

He was very excited about the mini Cars coloring book that he was given by his school bus driver and the small package from his teacher.

New Foster Brother

This is Tristin, Jonny's newest foster brother.  He came to live with us at the beginning of December and will probably be with us until somewhere around the middle of March.  He'll be two years old in March.  He thinks Jonny is the greatest thing ever and follows him all around.  The funniest thing is that he calls Jonny "Jaw-joo."

Thanksgiving Feast

The Kindergarten classes at Jonny's school held a Thanksgiving feast on the last day before Thanksgiving vacation.  One class wore Pilgrim hats, another class wore Indian feathers, and Jonny's class members were the turkeys!  They sat all together at a long table in the hallway and could choose turkey lunch meat, cheese slices, apple slices, mini carrots, or rolls with cookies for dessert.  Jonny's plate held a roll and two cookies!!!  They also treated us with a few songs.

Cleaning Up the Garden

It seemed that whenever I worked in the yard, Jonny wanted to use the clippers and cut something down!  I ran out of stuff for him to trim..... until I remembered the corn!  I let Jonny cut down a few corn stalks every day and after a while, he had the whole corn patch cut down!  He was pretty proud of himself!