Making Christmas Gifts (December 2013)

He painted different projects for each one of his grandparents

a cross for Meme (painted white then glued glass beads in it)

He decorated a box with paint and glass beads for Grandma Anna...

and he decorated a tissue box with paint and stones for Grandma and Grandpa...

grrr..... another video I can't load.  The size of it is huge and it shouldn't be.  I need to find me a good tech guy who can figure out what's wrong!  Hope I will be able to post them another time.  

School Christmas Party (December 2013)

His kindergarten class had a little Christmas party-  here are just a couple of photos from that.

Gingerbread Train (December 2013)

Matt's mom had gotten a gingerbread train to make with Caelan.  It turned out nice but I don't get the impression is on the agenda for next Christmas... I wasn't home when they made it.

School Christmas Program (December 2013)

His first school Christmas Program!  I was one proud Mama....  and yes, a little teary-eyed.

We didn't think he would participate, we actually didn't even think he would go up on the stage.  What we definitely did NOT expect was for him to sing!  And he poured himself into it- it was so awesome!

The whole program was beautiful.  Each class sang a few songs, there were Scripture readings, prayers and then all the kids from the school sang together.

Here is beforehand-  all the kids were in a room down the hall from the sanctuary.  He wanted me in there with him, and so I stayed with him and walked with the class and sat with him as well.  But he went right up on that stage by himself!

Above-  singing "Noel, Noel, Bells are ringing" at the top of his lungs.

Notice the tie didn't last long

Then they sang a song that involved shaking some bells.  He got just a little bit too enthusiastic with them and started swinging them around.  In the video, you can tell right when he finally looked up and saw me signing to "Stop!" and his teacher motioning to "ring gently!"

All the kids singing together.  The younger ones weren't as interested in this part and were all very distracted. The girls behind him were trying to politely tell him to turn back around.  And at one point when he was just sort of bending over for no reason at all.... Brant (next to him with the green tie) just very slightly tapped Caelan's foot with his own, without every missing a beat~ and Caelan stood back up.  His swaying side to side also caused him to topple over sideways off the step... causing a domino affect, taking down a couple other kiddos.  It could have been worse- and it was actually funny.

I was hoping to post the video here but the file is too large. We didn't use our camera to record it.  The bonus to using the nice camcorder is that you get great video quality; the downside is that the files are HUGE.  Sad I can't share it- it is the funniest video and I laugh to tears every time I watch it.

And for some reason, it has disappeared from Facebook so I can't even create a link to it.

His 1st Electric Train (December 2013)

This boy is all about trains-  he loooves them!  He reads books about them, watches videos about them, plays with toy ones.  He can tell you pretty much anything about them-  it amazes us!

Matt's cousins came into town in December and Christopher said that he had a gift for Caelan.  Christopher has only seen Caelan maybe once or twice and that was years ago.  He also loves trains though and he said that before he came up here, he felt 'led' to buy a train set but didn't know why.  Then when he spent time with Caelan he understood.

Christopher had bought a basic electric train set for Caelan-  the boy was beside himself!

He kept wanting me to put it together for him but I told him he had to wait for Daddy to get home to help him.  So he said, "Ok... I will wait right here on the couch and hold my train until Daddy gets home."

And so he did.... 

 For a while.

But it does appear that it was worth the wait- he was very excited about it!