TP Snowman

Here it is, the TP snowman.  Madison found Jingle Bell in the bathroom this morning, a nice little display - and an audience - for those visiting the bathroom!

Madison didn't do her report today, so that means it'll be tomorrow.  Other than that, her day was quite ordinary, although she did have to write a paragraph about her favorite holiday.  Of course, right now it is Christmas.  But it's not her favorite because of the gifts and snowmen and things to do.  It's her favorite, she wrote, because it is the birthday of Jesus.  I swear we didn't coach her on that one.  We were so happy to hear her write that out.  She's such a great girl!

Her story for this morning was a funny one.  This was her make-up story we do on the way to school.  This morning, we were talking about Pirates of the Caribbean, so she wanted to hear a story with the pirates.  So Daddy told her the story of how Christmas Island got it's name.  It involves Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann and Captain Barbossa, rescuing Santa from natives on the island.  Jack Sparrow just sauntered through the middle of the village, singing "Jingle Bells," and then promptly ran off while every single villager gave chase.  Meanwhile, Barbossa and Swann snuck into one of the huts, bonked a few guards on the head with coconuts, and rescued a tied-up Santa.  They all hopped aboard Santa's sleigh, and flew through the air over the beach, where Jack was running for his life, chased by an entire village of angry natives.  They all had to duck as Santa swooped down low, eight reindeer not so tiny, swimming the waves - Elizabeth called out to Jack to hop on board, and once he stopped screaming, he did just that.  And soon they were off, and into the air, spears and coconuts uselessly flying towards them.  It turns out that Santa was wanting to deliver something to this island, and he was captured.  But now that it was Christmas morning, he was able to continue with his mission:  he left a Bible for each villager, and one written in a language they could understand.  Right there in each Bible was a bookmark, where each could open the small books and read Luke, chapter two.

The pirates each got something special for Christmas themselves, as they celebrated on board the Black Pearl.  That morning, Barbossa was so pleased with the successful mission, he decided to name the island Christmas Island.  And it has been called that ever since.

We had some hot weather today, nearly record temperatures.  We were out for a bit, shopping for Christmas and getting a little bit of favor too.  Twice, we bought gift cards for $25, without realizing that if we did that, we'd get an extra bonus $5.00 gift card from that place.  So a few family members are getting $30 gift cards now, so that'll be nice!

Tonight, we watched "The Shirley Temple Show's" episode with the theme of "Babes in Toyland," which is somewhat of a theme lately.  It's a great episode with Jonathan Winters and Jerry Colonna.  Lots of fun!

Let's see, other things today:  we had the house pressure-washed, and the idea is to get it painted soon.  Also, Daddy got another allergy shot.  And we dropped off our library books, of course.  We were out over at Goodwill looking for costuming material for the "Hooked on a Feeling" series at KidPak too.  We had success there, getting some costuming for the character of Sadness.  

It was a pretty full day, obviously, with lots done, and a bit of fun in there too.