The Snowman Ornament

Okay so I know as a Mom I'm supposed to according to the "Mom manual" gush about all of the handmade presents my children make... you know acting like they are the best thing ever, when you know honestly diamonds and other jewels were really what you were dreaming of. Well in this case I wouldn't have traded it for anything - seriously. I'm lucky it wasn't broken in Grace's backpack since I had no clue she was making it, so to my surprise I opened her backpack and in a little brown bag is this little jewel (see below)...

The snowman is made from white finger prints from Grace's little hand - everything about it is so perfect. She was so proud of it, I was truly in awe it was BEAUTIFUL. I carried it around carefully waiting until the tree at the new house was ready to have it placed on the tree.

This has to be one of the best gifts Grace has ever made for me.

Wrapping presents...

Okay so I know I haven't blogged much but between prepping for the move & Christmas things have just been CRAZY! I know, and during one of the most important moments for "documenting" all those cute little things you guys do... but what can I say, I'm trying:-)

Tonight I was working on getting all of the last minute presents wrapped - which included presents for Brenda's (the big Christmas party is tomorrow) so of course Grace wanted to help wrap, and you know what that means if Grace is doing it Eva wants to do it too:-) Anymore that is a total "duh" of course Eva wants to do EVERYTHING and ANYTHING Grace is doing;-) So I figured Brenda would appreciate a wrap job and let the girls wrap her present.

Eva got more tap on her than on the package, and Grace well all she did is put tape EVERYWHERE. I don't think there was a single seam that wasn't taped, she must get that from Poppy - he loves duck tape;-)

Attached is a pick of the final product, looks pretty good to me!

Look at the socks!!!

Oh gosh, having someone like Grace around during the holiday makes it all worth it - she gets soooo excited over the littlest things:-) She has been dying for Nanni & Poppy to put up their Christmas tree (Matt is dying to buy her one for the new house - I keep telling him... focus on moving, we'll get a tree once we're moved!) So when Nanni hung the stockings on the mantle, I should have known Grace would come RUNNING. In she comes yelling, "COME LOOK AT ALL THE SOCKS!!!! EVERYONE HAS A SOCK!!! LOOK LOOK LOOK!!!!" It was too cute.

Nanni doesn't have her tree up yet but she put a small fiber optic tree in Grace's room. Grace was in love. She told me, "Nanni loves me a lot - look at my tree." So sweet it breaks my heart!