Catch-up On December

I've been MIA for the last month..... Student teaching just keeps me too busy. AND it's Christmas month... SO... what have we been up to this past December??

Well.. K gets an advent calendar.. which means he got one present EVERY day of December (until Xmas)... So every day he opened up something new. He LOVED it.. although to be fair he also loves getting chocolate every day too.

Also.. I graduated Dec. 17!!!!!!! Although I'm still teaching until Jan. 20... so it doesn't feel like I'm done. But officially I am:

 K came to the ceremony... sat very well through the 2 hours.. and then told me: mom.. You just walked up, shook someone's hand and walked past them. Is that gaduation? :) We went out to lunch and he snagged a donut.. and didn't complain afterwards:) After a quick nap, we headed to Sheboygan that same night and attended my cousins' wedding. Killian danced with a little girl and enjoyed all the attention..

 This is me, Killian and Mary at the wedding.

We also went to some Holiday Parties and concerts... menasha Library had a holiday party which we went to.. and a concert by Tom Pease. Killian LOVES Tom.. and kept going "on stage" to dance with him. A young boy picked K up and hugged him during "8 hugs a day" song.

 The park and Rec where we live did a gingerbread house decorating night.. so of course we went :) They actually built houses from cardboard, and we used frosting to stick on graham crackers/candy. It worked really well (and it's still standing today). K could do it all by himself and loved it.

 He was happy that he got to eat some of the candy out of the bowl after wards.

 This is his first advent present... it's a puppet stage

 Some of our pictures for our xmas card are SUPER adorable

 Here he is putting on a "story time" in front of his puppet stage (I still have to figure out a way to hang it in his room)

 Putting on his puppet show... SUPER hilarious to watch him do it.

 We made gingerbread snowmen cookies.. he rolled out his own and cut them too

 We did some science projects this December... he was testing to see what writing materials bleed in water.. turns out only marker

 Decorating the snowmen

 We went to an event at Heckrodt Nature reserve were they made 6 presents.. and they gift wrapped them all. K loved it... then he decided who would get which present. Each of the presents were big hits.

 And he signed his name on each :)

 We went to a celebration of lights with my dad.. here he's by the reindeer

 We did some sponge painting with xmas sponges

 He did about 3 LARGE pieces of paper with them...

He also made xmas ornaments out of canning jar lids. They are SOO adorable (because they look homemade)

 We made a tree of love... with pictures of everyone that the we love :)

 He got to play with Gammie 2 days this past week because daycare wasn't opened. My uncles were there one day.. and he played Blues Clues board game with them.


We played with his 2 girlfriends also, and brought them xmas gifts. He hadn't seen them since Halloween, so he was very happy to get to play with them again.

The ONE day we had some snow, we quickly went outside and played in it :) He made a snowman and was pulled around in a sled.

Christmas was a GREAT day.. I'll post pictures today or tomorrow when I have them uploaded and ready to go... Hope everyone has an amazing new year :)