Chritmas parties, friends and suckers!

On Friday I went to Scott's school for his Holiday party. We had a great time decorating gingerbread houses and little gingerbread men. After Scott was finished with those things he decided to do some counting on the board. Scott was counting by 20s while other children were running around playing holiday games. Ahhhh, the joys of being Scott. Thinking counting is more fun then playing. Some things never change.

Then on Friday night Mr. Ben, Mr. Jason, and the Sayers came for dinner. Scott had the best time because Anna was at Grammy's so he had them all to himself. They always are so kind to Scott and Anna. I turned around and saw them reading to him near the Christmas tree. It was hard to get a good picture because Scott started acting silly when he saw me pull the camera out. They also brought Scott and Anna HUGE suckers! How can those presents not be a big hit! Fun was had by all!

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Today is a fantastic day here at the Gilliam household! I just got a Flip camera in the mail and will be inundating everyone with videos. I know that everyone is extatic! I hope I can sneak a video of Dave singing some time! I know you will now get to see some of the Christmas Pageant and Scott's solo! YAY!

Gingerbread House time!

Today I decided to be a good mommmy and we decorated a gingerbread house. The best part was when Anna looked at me and said "you are a fun mommy." I actually had to say "what?" so she would say it again. I bet that will be one of the only tmes I hear that! I had to write it down here so I wouldn't forget and she would see that at some point in her life she really liked me. :)

We had a great time and you can see from the pictures that we made a masterpiece!

Dear Santa..

Scott came home from school the other day with this note in his backpack. At first I had to read it again to make sure I was reading what I thought I was reading. Really? Could my child be that deep and sensative? WOW, as a 5 year old? So of course I hugged him and told him what a wonderful child he was and that I was so proud of him. Then the next day I had to ask his teachers if they prepped the children on that. It turns out they did BUT I am still proud of him anyway! He may not be the next world Ambassator but this is start! Even though he had a bit of prep for this, he wrote it himself and thought of the words by himself...that is good..right? :)

Anna's Christmas Party

Anna and I went to her preschool Christmas Party this morning. We got to make rice krispy snowmen and Anna's turned into a snow blob by the end. She loved making the snowman. (and eating the poor guy!) A fun time was had by all!

Choir Solos and Breakfast with Santa

On Friday night Dave and Scott were in a Christmas Concert at church. My parents came to see the event! We love that Scott may have some of the same talents as Dave and has already been asked to sing 2 solos thus far. The first one was "All Things Bright and Beautiful' when he was almost 5. The 2nd one was this past weekend and then Chritmas Eve. He is singing the first verse of "Once in Royal David's City." It is a gorgeous song and the neat thing is that Scott sings the first verse with the adult choir (including Daddy) surrounding him and then they join in for the following verses. It is a tear jerker,that is for sure. Dave teared up just looking at the program for the concert. It said Scott Gilliam - Boy Soprano. I think Dave need to man up! Just kidding! :) He was so proud it was oozing out of him. I just bought a new video camera so I could get this on tape Christmas Eve.

Then on Saturday, we all went to have breakfast with Santa at the Carolina Inn. It was such a fun event for all! They had delicious food and even had a short table so the children could get their own food. We still helped them though! Santa was there and it was such a joy seeing them talk to him! He told Scott that he remembered when Scott was a little baby! Scott was shocked. The pictures below are of their long converstaions with Santa. Evidently, Scott would like musical instruments and Anna would like to have a baby doll with a purple dress. Does she know that purple is my least favorite color of all??? I am sure she does!

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We had a lot of fun decorating our tree! Anna and Scott loved going through the ornaments and trying to remember where each one came from. They don't have that much history decorating trees so there were not that many that they remembered. They do, however, remember the ginger bread man that Scott made in preschool when he was 3 and then Angle that Scott made out of his hand prints. I hope we are able to keep them in tact for the years to come! I might need to invest in a lamanating machine!

Here are our pictures of the finished product. For some reason, Anna keeps finding random ornaments around the house and continues to add them to the tree. The bottom is full of multicolored balls. I guess you can never have to many!