Like last year, we received our favorite present from Ava's school. Last year we received her foot print in the shape of a snowman and this year we received her hand print in a shape of a tree. Homemade gifts are the best gifts, especially when they were made by our little girl.
Ava had two parties at school and I signed up to bring the party favors to one of them. Last year I purchased board books for everyone on Santa's Workshop, but this year while shopping on Amazon, nothing was grabbing my attention that I wanted to purchase. I then decided to look on Pinterest and after some searching, I came across this idea Gingerbread Playdough and decided that I could make this.
I grew up with my Mother making us homemade playdough and my Mom made some for Ava in May and it is still as fresh as the day she made it so I was really excited about making this for the first time. I shopped on Amazon for supplies and purchased freezer tupperware with easy snap off lids as well as child safe cookie cutters to attach to playdough.
The playdought itself was super easy to make and only took 10 minutes. The other hour and a half that I spent on this project was for the assembling and clean up. Overall it smelled amazing and I was really happy at how they turned out!
This year Calvary had their 1st Annual Christmas Program. It was scheduled for a day that we were going to be out of town but Ava has been singing Christmas songs for the last three weeks and I could not pass up the opportunity to see her in her first performance. We changed out travel plans and on Friday headed to the Sanctuary at Calvary along with all of the other parents to watch this. They had the one year old class all the way up to the five year old class and surprisingly they came in very organized and filled the stands. They had 13 songs they were going to sing with the one and two year olds staying for the first five songs. I went up to the front side of the church so I could get pics of Ava walking in and also to be in a good position to film the program. As soon as Ava came in she saw me and instead of waving she started crying and these tears led to her screaming once she got on stage. Before the program could start she was in such hysterics that I took her off the stage and she sat on my lap while her classmates sang. After each song I asked if she wanted to go back up on stage and I even offered to go with her and she would not budge. After her classmates sang there songs and got off stage we left and got on the road to head to Kingsport. Here is hoping that this goes better next year...
Ava is not in this picture but her class is in the lower right hand corner.
She was all smiles right after we left and started singing Christmas carols in the car.
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