As for Christmas, Emily's music teacher, quite unexpectedly, cast Emily as Mrs. Claus in the school's holiday performance. She had lines to learn as part of the performance and she did great with it.
It turns out however, that Emily doesn't really need a script. She seems to do great coming up with witty remarks all on her own. She has had a couple of zingers lately. One morning, she wanted me to work on a puzzle with her. I told her that I needed a minute, but that she could get started without me. She said, "But I can't start without you. You're the missing piece." :)
Also, Chad brought home some whole nuts for us to crack and eat. She was struggling with the cracking part, so Chad said that he would do it and then would hand the nut to her so that she could dig it out of the shell. She said, "You do the crackin', I'll do the hackin', then we can do the snackin'." Ha!
Of course, now that our tree is up, Frisbee (our elf) is back and Emily has been doing a very nice job of leaving water for her each day so that Frisbee doesn't get thirsty while we are gone. She has also been working on her Christmas list. She got smart this year and put a grocery order on the list. She figured that if Santa delivers then there is no reason for us to make a trip to the store. Santa can just deliver the food we need when he drops off the presents. Apparently she wants Santa to keep up with Amazon. :)
Last but not least, we received Emily's annual school photo. I think that it turned out pretty well this year.
