The last day of preschool before Christmas vacation.....everyone was very excited today!

Playing "Shark Attack" this morning....they are a little too young to play by the rules yet but they sure had fun with this anyway.....and isn't that the whole point anyway.

They are just starting to really enjoy playing board games together...

The children are enjoying scooping out the pot after we made "Moose Droppings" for our party this afternoon.

The look on the children's faces when they saw today's party food was priceless. We do try to avoid high sugar treats at Tree House but at Christmas we make an exception....

Present time.....

One of our wonderful grandparents brought gifts for all the children. The gifts came in a great big box which Tiger thought was the "bestest" present

Merry Christmas to all my Tree House Gang and their families. May you all experience all the love and magic that this season has to offer........Mama Sharon

The girls make these butterfly masks this morning

We made a nice split pea soup for lunch today...

Tiger loves to bellywop over Jake...I don't think Jake is as crazy about this activity as Tiger but he patiently let's Tiger crawl all over him....

"Where did Jake go?"

The boys having a great time playing "little people" together...

Wednesday is our modeling day...

Everyone working on paper mache....our modeling project today..

Our pinata this year is going to be a fish...

Our finished pinata...we will use it to celebrate Los Posadas when we learn about winter holidays the first week back to school in January....

Drawing on the chalkboard....

Painting day!

The snowbanks are high enough to use for sledding....

Showing the "littles" the joys of sledding....

The king and queen discuss issues in the kingdom....

Tiger enjoying watching the colours play together....

Tiger and Princess love climbing off and on these two chairs....

Outside today....

Tiger loves baked beans....

we made and decorated Christmas cookies today

Soup Day!

Everyone helping to cut the veggies for our lunch soup....Tiger is a veggie tester...

The older children are showing the "littles" how much fun the snow can be

giving Princess a ride

Showing Tiger how to make a snow slide

Hot homemade soup is always welcome on snowy cold days....

One of our moms donated some nice new fleece nap blankets.....

mini-Christmas tree work..

doing the smelling jars

Doing the shape sorter together....

The buggies are away and the sleds are out......

Tiger loved the sled ride......

Peanut jumped in on the downhill....

Punchwork Christmas trees

Christmas stencils...

A wizard on a broomstick...

More fresh snow outsid today....

Tiger is not too impressed with the snow or his snowsuit. Poor guy just got mobile now he is hampered by a bulky snowsuit and slippy, deep, wet snow

We don't always get outside after rest time these days as the nights come early....as the littles leave a little earlier than the "big kids" we like to get out the big box of Lego

Finally the real snow arrived......

The snow blocks I bought at a garage sale this summer work really well

We celebrated St. Nicholas day today....

St. Nicholas Day is actually Dec. 6....as we figured St. Nick would be flying overhead on his way to Europe we put our boots outside so he could see them...and while we were napping....he stopped by and filled our shoes

mmmm....chocolate in our boots..

They were playing "getting married" this was the dance at the wedding.....very cute