Hurt, plus Christmas news

My poor baby got hurt.

She was standing innocently on the kindergarten playground for Capri's class Christmas party when a little girl accidentally knocked her down. Onto her face. Let's repeat that for dramatic measure. Onto. her. face.

James rescued her immediately and began first aid..... cleaning up the blood off the bad scratches on her nose.

After a while, her cheek/eye area started swelling up. So, my poor baby had to take a trip to the school nurse. This picture does not do the injury justice. The school nurse said she might have black eye tomorrow! Poor baby!

But, that poor baby of mine is one tough cookie. She has not complained or cried since the incident. She shook it off fairly quick.

She looks so much like her brother here it's freaky....

Well, in other happier news, Capri got an EZ bake oven for her birthday. She loves it! I let her stay up late to use it so her siblings couldn't barge in & try to take over (they do that to her a lot).

Along the Christmas related front, Capri played the part of "sheep" in her class' production of the Nativity. The rules were that I had to "make" her costume from things we pretty much already had. Harder than I thought, but it turned out good enough.

Here she is practicing her perfect "baaa".

Then, the aforementioned Christmas party today.

JD joined right in with the Kindergarten boys... playing tag, running around, eating, etc. He even addressed the teachers and was asking them for help with stuff.

Clearly my kids think school is primarily for raising your hand. Every time they had to sit down they both put their hands in air as if they had questions. This happened like 4 times.

Capri had to stand on the center table for her classmates to sing "Happy Birthday" to her and the rest of the December birthday kids. Not sure she loved that.

Like I said before, JD made himself at home. He even got the teachers to teach him how to use chopsticks.

Last on the list before Christmas vacation was a story. Tella tried to work in, but she just couldn't make it last. She faced the wrong way, and was bored immediately.

JD was rumored to have made some Kindergarten boys mad because he took their spot on the carpet. Didn't bother him much, he just wanted to be in on the action. The good news is at this point he decided to keep his hand down!!

And lastly, Happy Birthday to my FIL Jeff! Hope it's a good one Dad!