December 23, 2006

• The Jingle Bell Brigade has left the building.

  Why do I call them the Jingle Bell Brigade?  Because they burst spontaneously into song (and to think people say musicals aren’t true to life!), singing “Jingle Bells” over and over and over and….. 

  
  Here they began singing “Silent Night” only fizzled out due to having forgotten the words; I picked up the slack, for Meredith – over on the far left – was signing it:

  When I think how many crafty things I’d prepared for them to do, I could just scream.  The only one they were really interested in was the faux-gingerbread house activity, generously provided by Elaine, and the main thing they liked about it was the glitter glue pens I provided.  Hadn’t actually planned upon them using those on the houses, but immediately small hands reached for them.

  

  

  After working on the houses and singing, they chose to adjourn to the living room to play and hang out.  Memory is always a popular past-time with this crew:

  

  I gathered them together for a group photo, which they agreed to cooperate with so long as they were allowed to pull one of these:

  

  Here’s the real photo, duded up a trifle:

  

  Heartwarming times! 

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