Christmas Card 2009

Merry Christmas

Love, Gabe, Heidi,
Josiah (8), Kiersen (5),
Liam (3) and Aliya (1)

Presents with Heather

Heather is our weekly babysitter. She is wonderful and we love her!!! She brought gifts for all the kids today, as well as a cute card (she is crafty!) and treats for all. The kids made her a card and had a small gift for her as well. We really appreciate all that she does with our kids!

Liam eating one of the treats. He enjoyed it!

Christmas Play

Josiah, Kiersen and I went out to Troy to see a kids' Christmas Play! My friend Erin wrote and directed the play, as well as sewing some of the costumes and writing one of the songs in it! (She is kind of like James Cameron who directed the movie Titanic... multi talented:) The kids were excited when they spotted Caleb (as Joseph), Ethan (as a shepherd), and Adam (as a King). Well, actually, they didn't recognize Ethan til the end! Caleb did a great job on his solo and all the kids in the play were great! We were happy to go see it. You can see pictures of the fantastic Three Kings' costumes here.

Mom, please make my hair straight!!!

Kiersen was born with wonderful, naturally curly hair, thanks to some of Granee's genes! Sure enough, she wanted me to straighten it... so I tried tonight! I think she looks beautiful no matter what, but as a person stuck with straight hair all my life, I hope she decides she likes her curls!!

Napping?

I found Aliya like this in her pack and play. She took off the sheet and then crawled under the mattress. She and her baby were having quite the conversation!

Making Cookies

We decided to make some sugar cookies to give away. Since we never have enough, I decided to make a quadruple batch.


Once we started mixing, we realized we were short one egg, so I substituted some ground flaxseed.
When it came time to roll the cookies out, I started to wonder why we made so many...
Where did the pot of dough go? Oh, of course, someone has it under the table!
Frosting the cookies is always fun!
Once we finished frosting the cookies, we discovered that the flaxseed substitution gave the cookies a strange texture and slightly different taste. So, now, we have a quadruple batch of cookies that we can't give away and have to EAT ourselves! But they taste ok to us, and think of all the omega fatty acids we will be eating now...:)

Holiday Breakfast

Grandma Haerer treated Josiah, Kiersen, Liam, Tucker and Hudson to a special holiday breakfast at the Boonshoft Museum last week. We ate pancakes and donuts, listened to holiday stories, made crafts, played games, did science experiments, and even had pictures with Santa. After breakfast, we spent some time in the museum. It was a fun time for everyone! Thanks, Grandma!


Josiah loved the science experiments!Liam was very good at the Dreidel game! He kept playing until he had this huge stash of candy!

Kiersen and Tucker worked carefully on their perfect crafts!
Grandma helped Hudson. She had to be fast!

Here we are in the museum at the pretend vet. I can picture Tucker going to medical school someday! He would be great!
Josiah posed by the recycling stuff. ???
No more pictures as we were too busy chasing all 5 kids through the museum! Hope we can do it again next year.