A Birthday Party for Jesus

Last week at preschool the assignment for show and tell was to bring in a picture of your family at Christmas.  Will and I sat down in advance and looked through last year's pictures so he could decide which one he wanted to show.  He couldn't decide on just one and ended up taking one of himself with Kristen, one of Napoleon guarding his Christmas chew toy, and one taken during the birthday party for Jesus we had last year with Natalee and Brady.  I thought it was interesting that he didn't choose any of the pictures of opening presents.  I hope family and friends will always be his "favorites" over the presents at Christmas!

Natalee attends the same preschool but on a different day, and it turned out that she also chose a picture of the birthday party to bring in.  They all obviously enjoyed it so we did it again this year. 

Step 1:  Ice the cupcakes.

Step 2:  Sprinkles!

Step 3:  MORE sprinkles!

Step 4:  Clean-up!

Step 5:  Eat pigs-in-a-blanket and fruit on a picnic blanket by the
Christmas tree.

Step 6:  Pause for a group photo.  Lindsay and I are always behind
the camera and seldom in any pictures.

Step 7:  Sing Happy Birthday!
(You can't see it very well here, but this year we had a number 8 candle.  Last year it was a
number 3.  Will's preschool teacher asked if the 3 stood for anything and I admitted
it was the only candle we could dig out at the last minute.  This year our number 8
does stand for a tradition:  digging out a candle at the last minute!!)

Step 8:  The best part - eating cupcakes!! 
(Don't worry Amie - you can have one next year!)