Canche Chronicles: Christmas concert

Sunday was an early morning for our family. We had to get up to be ready to go to church by nine. David and I got ready while the girls were sleeping and then we got them up and dressed and fed and left. Dad had made pancakes so that was nice to have for breakfast. David went to a men's sunday school class and I went to the women's sunday school class. My parent's church is fairly big but it doesn't have a ton of young kids so Haley and Emily were actually in the same class. It wasn't that big of a deal and was kind of nice for dropping them off and picking them up. It did pose a little problem when I got called out of the service to feed Emily. Haley saw me and she was not very happy but they held her at bay with goldfish and Cheerios, apparently that was the only thing that kept her content.

David ordered pizza for lunch and several people said, 'thank you David and Katelyn for the yummy pizza.' (shout out to you Rin!). Haley did not eat hardly anything for lunch because of all the snacks she got in church. I let her stay up and play because we were practicing for the concert in the living room and I figured the singing would keep her awake anyways. Well this was a bad idea because she ended up breaking some of Mimi's glass candle holders. For the record, it was on David's watch. Mimi said they were super cheap and it didn't matter. David and Pops vacuumed up the broken glass and Haley went down for a nap.

While she slept we cleaned up the house and started getting food prepared for our family Christmas concert. David held Emily while she slept and he read a book I got him for Christmas. I ended up waking Haley up just before five because the Christmas concert started at five. She had been sleeping for three hours so I figured it was time. She and Emily wore adorable dresses that Mimi bought them to match with all the cousins. We got a couple of cousin pictures but it didn't go super well. Cousin Clark does not like getting his picture taken and Haley started crying because she got reprimanded for pinching Calla's arm.

We always start the Christmas concert off by eating heavy hor d'oeuvres and then we do the concert part. This year we had quite a few people on the program. Haley helped do jingle bells by ringing a bell/fighting over a bell with cousin Jay. David and I sang a duet and David did a reading with the other brother-in-laws. Emily did not entirely enjoy the concert but she did okay once I fed her about halfway through. Haley watched about half of the concert, the other half she spent playing around in the living room. At one point she was walking around with Calla's backpack on and pulling Calla's rolling suitcase behind her. I'm not even sure where she found those things because we had put all of the toys away before guests came.

After the concert we ate dessert and exchanged gifts with our family friend Linda Smith. Linda included a snowglobe in each of our gifts and Haley loved it. After everyone left we cleaned up the kitchen and put all of the food away. We let Haley stay up until almost ten because she was playing so nicely. David won a game of Settlers he played with Pops and Jonathan and then Carly won the game she played with Dad and I. Now I am going to bed, we missed you tonight Rin!

Haleyism:
Mimi has a riding horse that Haley loves to climb onto and stand up on the saddle. It's the white and purple one Rin, she likes to bounce up and down while she's standing there.

Emilyism:
Emily is starting to require a little bit more effort at naptime, I think she misses her swing maybe.