Geronimo Stilton - Editor of 'The Rodent's Gazette'

Micah and Kevin (neighbor friend) were talking one day.  Kevin was telling about some books he was reading.  Micah was talking about his study on newspapers.  Kevin had just finished a book within the Geronimo Stilton series entitled "The Phantom of the Subway".  Geronimo Stilton is a mouse, he is the editor of 'The Rodent's Gazette'.  We borrowed the book and really enjoyed it.  The boys got to talk about it several days when they got together to play.  It is a fun series and was just up our alley with our newspaper study.

12.12.12

Today is a unique day.  The past twelve years have each had one month where the date was the same number for the month, day, and year.  (01.01.01; 02.02.02; 03.03.03; ...)  I asked the kids "when will be the next time a year does that?"  Wow, not for 88 years and 19 days.  The next questions we wanted to answer was how old would each of us be and is it possible we'd be around for it.  Jodie - I won't be around; I'd be 130 years old.  Micah - Might be around; he'd be 97 years old.  Lilly - might be around; she'd be 93 years old.  They thought it was neat that they've both experienced a 'unique date' for each year of their lives so far.  Then Micah said "We'll still have cool dates.  Next year there's an 11/12/13."

Ollie The Trolley

On Saturday night, while the boys were performing, Lilly and I attended our Eastside Explorers' Christmas Party.  It was hosted at one of the local assisted living homes, owned by one of the EE families.  Throughout the evening there were two shifts of two trolleys that took us around town to see Christmas lights.  We had lots of hot chocolate, cookies, and fun!  Learn more about: Ollie the Trolley.

SBC's "Winter Wonder"

This past weekend was our church's "Winter Wonder" Christmas Program.  Matt and Micah were both part of the action.  Matt was a shepherd in the nativity scene.  Micah was in - the large children's choir, a small group of children who did hand motions to a song, the 'hot chocolate' dance crew on the '11th day of Christmas', and a robe carrier for one of the Wise Men in the nativity scene.  There were a lot of practices, so the boys were out quite a bit and Lilly and I had several 'girls nights'.  Lilly and I went to watch the program on Thursday night (family night performance) and took Dave, our neighbor, with us.  The boys had five performances all together.  It was really neat for several of our family members (IL, OH, FL, and IN) to watch the program 'live' online - thanks to our tech crew.  Great job everyone!

Advent Jesse Tree

It's December and time to begin our Advent Jesse Tree.  We have a devotion each day from December 1st through Christmas that takes us from the time of creation through Jesus' birth.  Each devotion has an ornament that coincides and we put it on the tree.  This is our 'big' tree this year.