St. Nicholas' Day

December 6th is St. Nicholas' Feast Day.  Per our tradition, each child received a book and candy in their slippers. It's a simple tradition, but they get so excited about it.  We have always put them in the piano room under the Santa collection I inherited from Memaw.

Charlie asked why Annie didn't get any chocolate and I said, "St. Nicholas knows she's too young."  Later I walked by and there were baby "puffs" in her slippers.  Charlie smiled and said, "St. Nicholas knows she  can have puffs so he came back with some."  :)

And Daddy read us the new stories.

And here is the happiest, happiest baby!!  I did our Christmas cards yesterday and she just rolled in the tot bloc happy as a clam.  I would look over and smile and she would smile and then keep rolling and playing.  Anastasia, you are a blessing!

 Well it appears we waited too late to get a good Christmas tree.  We have tall ceilings so we always get a tree over 9 feet.  This weekend all those trees were sold out and they only had 6-foot.  Daddy thought he could buy the one 11 foot tree left and cut it down to fit.  Alas, it was WAY TOO WIDE and now we are back to square one.   Julia kept saying, "Why can't it just stay here?"  And I said, "Because we'd have to move the sofa out of the room!"  And she said, "That's fine."   Who needs to sit down when you have a lovely tree?  :)

 It's still a pretty tree and we are going to decorate it outside- the only place it fits!

This weekend we watched the George C. Scott Christmas Carol- it is Marc's favorite.   I believe we will watch all the versions before the season is over.  Big Marc LOVES Christmas movies.

And here are some pictures from when BB babysat Anastasia while we went to the funeral the other day- she showed BB all her tricks.  She played with her toys-

She rolled..... :)

And she chewed on her little toes.  :)