We feasted and feasted till we could feast no more, and then we had leftovers for nearly a week. It was a beautiful thing! Our food was so delicious and we had a wonderful, relaxed day with the Simons.
Because we are coming home in 10 days (WOO HOO!!!) and will celebrate Christmas with our family, we don't decorate a real tree here in Cairo. However, I'm always looking for a project to do (which is why being an art teacher is great for me), so we created a Christmas tree out of our handprints to hang on the wall.
Even Jason participated (He was given no choice.) and so the tree is all three of our handprints. 
The next night, Luke and I painted ornaments, and the next night, we cut them out and stuck them to the tree. Here's our finished product.
We have a DVD with several Christmas specials on it, including the Grinch. We watched it for the first time just over a week ago. Luke was initially terrified of the Grinch. We were snuggled on the couch watching. He had his hands over his ears and was all balled up and trembling! I actually stopped the DVD and told him the rest of the story so he wouldn't be scared. Then I gave him the option to turn it off and not watch any more, but he wanted to watch. Ever since then he has begged to watch it over and over, and he LOVES pretending to be the Grinch. He taps his fingers in that Grinchy way, recites the lines of the story and the lines the Grinch says. He practices his Grinch faces in the mirror, too!
This is his Grinch face when the Grinch gets a "wonderful, awful idea":
So you can see, we are ready for Christmas! We've got 5 more days of school, and then it will be almost time to come home! Can't wait.
1 comment:
i am desperately in love with that handprint tree and will SO be stealing that idea! you're so creative, chick!!! it turned out completely adorable. i hope that you can save it somehow and hang it up every year! :)
and that grinchy face. i.could.eat.him.up!!!!!! luke is totally adorable...cutest grinch i ever did see!
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