The beginning of December brought lots of Christmas festivities to the Pull house. One such festivity, that actually didn't happen at our house at all, was a MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) Christmas Playdate. Lots of moms from our local MOPS group got together and shared a morning of Christmas activities.
Our morning began with cookie decorating. The girls thought it was especially fun that they got to lick the knife when they were all done frosting their cookies (see above).
It was also fun to see their personalities shining through in this activity. Xandra was very careful and meticulous with her cookies getting the frosting on just so and taking 30 minutes per cookie to do it. Theia glopped it on her cookies in about 3 minutes total, made a huge mess on the table, plate, her hands, face and shirt. I'm pretty sure she licked every cookie in the process, too.
Aliyah, being the delightful age and stage that she is, spent a lot of the morning like this
and like this. Could someone please control this child?
When she was on break from throwing fits, she did participate in a few activities with us.
Her favorite was the playdoh station, where she spent a good portion of her time trying to eat the playdoh.
The homemade playdoh was red and green, of course. There were Christmas cookie cutters and rolling pins set out for the kids to use and when we were done, each child got to take their playdoh home.
Xandra and Theia liked this station, too. In the end, I think what they liked most of all was mixing the red and green playdoh together. It's so ugly, but so fun.
The other stations were craft making stations (which we never made it to), a nativity station where the kids could play with nativity sets, and a book station filled with tons of Christmas books to read aloud together.
Our friend, Beth, came along for the playdate and she read a book or two to the girls at the book reading station.
Joey hung out in the sling the whole morning, napped and missed all the pictures. I'm guessing next Christmas he'll be the jolly one pushing playdoh up his nose, arching his back on the floor and sticking his fingers in other people's cookie frosting.
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