I'm Spider-Man!

Conall's reading group presented a play for the class today (unfortunately, family was not invited). They have been reading fairy tales for the last few weeks and his group is doing a play of  "The Spider and the Beehive". And, of course, Conall is the spider.

We had to come up with the costume on our own. The teacher was sure to tell us that it was "something fun, not stressful" yet called it a "costume contest". Uh, right! At first the play was to be Thursday because school had originally been out today. But, they had to make up a snow day, so school is in today. Thus, we needed two costumes -- one for fairy tale dress up day yesterday (he wore his old knight Halloween costume) and then the spider for the play today.

Conall is an adorable spider and is so excited about his part in the play. The teacher sent home a script earlier in the week and not only does he have his entire part memorized, he can read it as well. Our only hope is that he makes it until the play before the costume gets messed up. It is made of stuffed black socks pinned to a spider t-shirt and attached to each other by fishing line. Conall could not stop messing with it this morning, nor complaining about it being uncomfortable, even though he loved looking like a spider.

He put the costume on and told us that he wanted to be Spider-Man when he grows up. Then he said "Is Spider-Man good?" once we told him that, yes, he is, Conall proclaimed loudly "I'm Spider-Man!".

"I'm Spider-Man"

December Photos

Here are some photos from December that I hadn't posted before because they were hiding in another folder on the computer!

Being goofy with Po Po at Cadron Settlement

With Na Na at Cadron

Opening a gift with Na Na

Po Po reading to the kiddos

Conall grabbing daddy's birthday cupcakes

Caitlin and Na Na

Conall and Santa

Thanksgiving With Uncle Ken

We were lucky to get to spend Thanksgiving with Uncle Ken. The biggest fun for Conall was walking in the woods after the big meal (previous post). Unfortunately, I don't have any photos of that, so you'll have to rely on Conall's art to tell the story.

Conall and Uncle Ken both enjoyed playing Candyland and Caitlin enjoyed sitting in Uncle Ken's lap and reading a story.

Reading With Jackie and Bill

Reading to the baby

Caitlin brought me a book to read to her today, and as she usually does, climbed up in my lap for me to read to her and said "read." After reading the same story 2 or 3 times, she crawled out of my lap and very matter-of-factly grabbed her baby doll. She climbed back in my lap, put the doll in her lap, looked back at me, and said "read." It was so cute! I guess she wanted the baby doll to see the pictures, too.

Here's another cute video of her pushing the baby (and brown bunny) in the stroller yesterday.