Fa La La La Flu

I have to be honest, I stole that from a friends FB post.  Flu is out of control around our parts.  Thank the Lord that the 8 year old was the only one to get it.  Here are the boys decorating our tree.  Little did I know that Cal would go to bed right after decorating and wake up at 4:30 blazing hot with fever!

Normally I do our big tree and the boys do a smaller tree with their ornaments.  I was not wanting to go over the top this year and the boys wanted their ornaments on the real tree.  I seriously did not do a thing to our tree this year other than move a few around to the sides and take a few off the branches that were bogged down with 5 ornaments in a row. 

They were both so cute and LOVED decorating.  I just sat at the table and stuffed Christmas cards. 

I still love these "little" and now stinky feet

 

Thankfully Cal's flu seemed to be a mild case and he only missed Thursday and Friday from school.  I did not give Cal the Tamaflu because he would not ever eat enough to take it.  Brady started Christmas play practice the Monday after Cal came down with flu and started a stomach ache (I checked him out and started the Tamaflu) only to figure out that he had a good ole fashion case of stage fright.  Needless to say I gave him the Tamaflu for 5 days because the sweet Kindergartners were dropping like flies as well as most of school.

My sweet little Shepard

The Shepard's finishing up their Shepard Song.  The Shepard Song is always a hit.  Cal was a Shepard and all Brady wanted to be was a Shepard.  They do not "reveal" the children's parts until the day they go home for Thanksgiving.  He was so happy until he realized they sit at the front of the stage until their song then sing and walk up by the stable. 

This is him on the first day(they do the play 3 times).  Basically as far off the stage as possible.  He is pretty much behind a Christmas Tree and almost back behind the pianist. 

This is only the center section, but they take a Christmas Card picture each year to send out the following year.  Always precious and will bring a tear to your eye.  The sweet dove (in between sheep and camel) was one that went down with flu and only got to preform once.  Now we had a soloist who came with fever the last day.  To each their own.

Here are the boys (minus 1) in Brady's class after the last performance.

He just told me to name them. Shepard, narrator, Shepard, Joseph and narrator. The one missing was a wise man.

 

The boys had their class parties today. They get out tomorrow at 11:30.

I can't believe Christmas is in 5 days!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Christmas Fun

Happy December.  Our elf is back (a few days earlier than I had intended because our neighbors elf had come back and they plus my boys were starting to freak out that our elf was not coming this year).

Jolly is back and Brady is just staring at him

 

Wynlakes does a Christmas Open House and they give each child who builds a Gingerbread House a prize.  Cal has been asking since last year to build one, of course when it came time to build it he just wanted to tell mommy how he wanted it to look.

 

Here are the boys with the Wynlakes Gingerbread House

Boys with Santa

Matt and I

 

HAPPY DECEMBER!