December 5 - 9th: Getting Christmassy

I didn;t prepare as many trays this week as, being completely honest, I did not have the energy or inclination to put them together. I had a lot of ideas, but with a 6 week old baby, trays dropped significantly on my priority list. We still managed some fun activities including playgroup and the Please Touch Museum. I did, however, have a crying breakdown on Sunday, and I'm convinced that I'm trying to do too much on not a lot of sleep. So, I'm going to go easy on myself and I'm posting a small slice of our week - the moments I remembered to grab the camera and some stuff I was able to capture after the fact.

R. helped decorate the tree this year.  We took a trip to meet Santa with some friends and bought a red bauble. R. is thrilled with it.

This is our homemade magazine wreath; a project more for me than R! She did love using the stapler, but searching for the red and green magazine pages was soon dull for her.

While I glued on all those magazine petals, R. created this berry M and M collage with the glue. For a couple of weeks, R. has been collected berries on our dog walks. We are slowly deberrying the entire neighborhood.

On Friday, I was so exhausted that I had a pajama day and we failed to make it to playgroup. Instead we made some cookies using a wonderful, simple  snickerdoodle recipe from my mother-in-law. Rose rolled the dough balls in a mixture of red and green sprinkles with cinnamon. She enjoyed the process, but it doesn't come close to the enjoyment of eating the results.

I found a packet of glitter glue "pens" in the office and got R. working on some homemade christmas cards. I cut out the christmas tree shapes and rose squeezed on the glitter glue and added round stickers. Big success!