Just a Little Spoiled

Christmas day has now come and gone.  We spent time with family and friends and as usual were spoiled silly.   The kids were super excited Christmas Eve.  They put out cookies and eggnog for Santa and some of Coco's food for the reindeer.  Liam kept telling Todd and I to go to bed as he was worried that Santa would skip our house if we were still awake.  Todd and I said they could get up when their clock radios said 7:30 and not a minute before.  At 6:00 a.m we woke up to Liam's cute face and him saying "I know it's only 6:00, but I'm too excited."  Good thing we have great coffee in the house.

Merry Christmas

Opening his gift from Santa (see the mess Santa made in front of the fireplace?)

Opening her gift from Santa

Enjoying his new scotch glasses

Boxing day with their cousin

 Boys comfortable and relaxed

Farewell Ted, until next year

Ted, our Elf on A Shelf has completed his duty of 'spying' on the kids and has gone back to Santa.  He was a lot of fun and we look forward to seeing him December 1st, 2013.

Fishing?

Reading a story to all his friends

Christmas Concert

I think I have previously mentioned how much we like the kids' school.  Calgary has so many options, much more than when Todd and I were school age yet we feel very fortunate that our designate school is a place where Emily and Liam are happy and feel comfortable.  It's a small school, although it has grown from 118 students last year to 150 this year, K-6.  I really can't say enough about the sense of community our little school has and we are always thankful for the teachers that invest so much into our kids.  This past week we went to their Christmas concert and yes we are biased, but it was a great show.

Emily is part of a choir

All the grade 1s and kindergarteners - Liam is in the 2nd row, blue shirt on the left

Liam's class

The final performance that includes the entire school - Emily on stage and Liam on the floor

Even the principal and teachers got into it

Just a picture of our Christmas tree

Ted- Week 4 (I think)

Still a mischievous elf...

Emily and Liam thought this was hilarious

Cirque du Ted or checking out where Santa will come down

Night, night

Ted's Excellent Adventure continues

Another week of Ted roaming the house.  The Christmas tree is also decorated; a magical time for the kids.

He must have been thirsty

Emily by our tree

Looking comfy in Coco's stocking

Must have been tired after a night of traveling to the north pole

Hung over?  He actually fell from the tree and spent the day recovering.

Hat Trick

Liam played in a hockey tournament this weekend. He played two games on Saturday and one today.  He had a stellar game today, scoring three goals, making some nice passes to his teammates and even getting up after being taken into the boards (they're not supposed to check in Timbits!).  Mommy didn't like it; he thought it was awesome.

Cheeky Ted

Ted the Elf has been spying on the kids all week, ensuring that they are behaving and then reporting back to Santa.  Both Emily and Liam race around in the morning to see where he is.  What will he be up to this week?

Playing xbox 360

 Roasting a marshmallow?!

Resting in a bowl of marshmallows and a Christmas cookie

In Emily's room on her piano

In Liam's room on his fish tank

Zoo School

Emily's class spent five days at the Calgary Zoo as part of their curriculum.  I took the day today and volunteered as a helper.  I've always enjoyed the zoo and it was so much fun to spend the day with my girl.  The four other kids I had were great too.  Neat to see all their personalities developing.

Emily concentrating on drawing a lizard

Touching the lizard she was sketching

Ghost, the newest hippo 

Kind of a blurry picture, but check out that tongue!

So flexible

Hooded falcon

Sweet little meerkat

Emily's 'storage' boot

Penguin plunge

Newest members to the zoo

Snow leopard