Christmas

The week of Christmas was so good. Ben was home the whole we so we got a lot done. We swapped Lucy's room and the guest room so that the boys could share the bigger room. Ben set up the cribs. We went through all of our things and donated a ton of stuff to DI. Ben almost completely dry-walled the downstairs bedroom. I cleaned and organized. On Christmas Eve we worked hard, took a nap, and then had fun activities including making an ornament, reenacting the Nativity Story and decorating sugar cookies.

Later that night Lucy hung her stocking and set out cookies and milk for Santa Clause. 

On Christmas morning Lucy was determined that Santa didn't come because she didn't hear any of the jingle bells from his sleigh. She was thrilled when she saw that he did come.

 After presents, Ben made pancakes and bacon.

Later in the week my brother came down from Alberta. We had a mock Christmas and went sledding.

Dance Recital

Last night was Lucy's Dance Recital. She danced to "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas." She was scowling the whole time and she later told me it was because the lights were too bright. She was completely distracted by them and all of the people that she forgot to dance. Her class was the youngest class and they got the most laughs and the most applause. It was so fun.

My favorite part of the dance is at 1:12 to about 1:20. It captures exactly how confused and distracted she was. I wish we filmed the other girls too. They had a runaway child a few times.

Afterwards, Grandma Rhonda and Grandpa Hans gave her a gift. She was thrilled. 

These are her teachers. They are amazing. They are very aware of Lucy and her needs. We've discovered that she really struggles with loud music. She plugs her ears in class to cope with it. She also struggles with some of the girls who don't listen or do what they are supposed to do. So the teachers make sure that they are always separated so Lucy doesn't get frustrated and shut down. She loves them. 

We went to Winger's afterwards to celebrate.