More Christmas Merriment

One of our favorite things to do is to paint/draw on our sliding glass door according to the season.  We repaint it every couple months according to holidays and our mood.  Yesterday we decided to paint it for Christmas.  Christian and Bella had a great time, however Bella got frustrated once Peter decided to join in.  He loved the idea of drawing on the window but wasn't happy to draw on the other side by himself.  He wanted to join right in with theirs.  Christian took it in stride as he scribbled and finger printed along the bottom of the picture, but artist Bella got so upset.  She ended up refusing to continue once he'd been at it for a while and Christian and I finished up.  In the end, I call it a success.  Today he saw the picture and remembered and wanted to draw some more.  This time I was able to convince him to draw on the other window. :) 

Sunday we we'd planned to decorate gingerbread houses.  Benjamin was excited about it and came into the kitchen asking about it.  The other two, however, realized that after all those cookies, they were no longer in the mood.  Thus gingerbread houses got postponed until next Sunday.  We decided to paint ornaments instead.  Everyone enjoyed it to a point.  The boys got frustrated that their finished products never looked like the image they had in their minds.  Bella ended up making most of them, but everyone had a fun time.  I'm excited when we put up the tree, to place our new ornaments on it.  We're holding off on the tree due to Peter and our cat who has a penchant for eating (and subsequently vomiting) the pine needles.  We'll put it up a few days in advance.

Just a few more cute pictures of Peter.  He found our headlamps and happily walked around with his own. 

  He joined us for a card game. 

Bella was doing some brainteaser puzzles with Christian that employed coins.  Afterwards she forgot to put the container away.  In addition, she left her water glass standing next to it.  Peter spied an opportunity.  I was cooking dinner when I heard the sound of coins being poured out.  I looked to see him pouring them into her glass.  As I hurried over, he picked up the glass and poured it all over the table and floor.  I turned to grab a towel and tried to get back to the table, during which time he decided to swipe his arm back and forth, shooting any water and coins left on the table all around the room!  The storms were coming faster than I could react!  In just a few seconds he had created a widespread wet disaster and I was powerless to stop it.  That's when I decided to give up and just take a picture.  He continued to swipe with reckless abandon and laughed and laughed the entire time.  It was really hysterical.  In the end, he helped me dry up the water and clean up the coins back into the container.  

He stopped momentarily when he saw I was taking a picture (guilty little face), but then he continued to swipe and laugh.