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The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas – Day 7

Today we just made Rice Krispies Treats. I was in the grocery store last night and saw the cereal and knew that was what we would do today, as it would be really easy and we had several appointments this morning. The only thing I did wrong was not double the batch so it really wasn’t enough. But, everyone got at least one piece.

We put Sophia in the high chair so she could watch as she seemed interested today. At one point she actually grabbed a marshmallow and pushed it in her mouth. We had to get it out as she will not chew and would have ended up choking on it. We did give her some small pieces that would not choke her. She just lets them sit in her mouth until they pretty much disolve.

Some of the kids just watched until they could stir in the cereal. That was pretty easy except it was really thick and sticky.

Piper absolutely loved these. We definitely should have made more.

The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas – Day 6

Today, we hung the ornaments we decorated yesterday on the kitchen tree – small but counts. I think we are going to try to buy another box as we definitely need more on the tree and I like the idea of cookies on our kitchen tree.

Then we decided to make popcorn and cranberry chains to decorate the tree outside for the birds and whatever animals find it — usually squirrels. We popped some popcorn and got out the cranberries and the thread and needles and just about everybody helped — not Bella or Sophia. The kids were better and faster at it this year and they got quite a few strings done. Now we just have to make the peanut butter pinecones sprinkled with birdseed and then hang it all on a tree. It was a dark and rainy day here all day long so we couldn’t go out to put anything on the tree. But, I think our special thing for today was a success as everyone seemed to love doing it. Sarah even worked extra hard at stringing and she usually hates anything that involves fine motor skills.