Emerald made it into the 21st Annual Homer Nutcracker Ballet this year. She began practicing in October and they had six shows the first two weeks of December. She was a little mouse, did a Maypole dance, and stood on stage the entire second act as a Castle Guard for the queen. She loved it and did very well in spite of not having any dance experience. We didn't get many pictures but we all got to see the show, even me. Here she is backstage getting makeup done.
We took the week of Thanksgiving off from school since I wasn't up to doing much. But we started the next week and have been going ever since. We will keep on this week and next just so we can catch up from our late start this fall. We'll take a few days off for play dates with our friends that are off from school. We brought all the kids books over to the house and I teach from the couch. Here Alectra and Alexis are reading to me.The week before Christmas the kids brought all the decorations in and found a tree. They had a great time doing it all by themselves. Our house it too small for a tree but since we don't have a front step and don't use the front door we decided to stick it in that nook. It made decorating a little tough but we can still use the living room which is important!
The wild decorator! By the way that is Jayce's hand not Emerald's.The best part of decorating is getting the tree skirt out. It spends at least a week as a dance skirt before I can convince the girls to put it under the tree. My mom made it and it twirls so nicely. Here is Alectra dancing and twirling.Mom and Wenge sat on the couch directing traffic and getting ornaments ready to hang. The finished product in the dining room, with my new Christmas table cloth.
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