Decker

Hi everyone! Ho ho ho! That’s what Santa Claus says! And guess what? It’s almost Christmas! I’ve been having a really fun time getting ready for Christmas this year - there’s so much stuff to enjoy! Mommy and Daddy and Sutter and I went and bought a Christmas tree, and I got to help decorate it! We have some really cool ornaments, like the Cookie Monster, Bob the Builder, and some pretty colored stars. I decided they all looked best hanging on the same 3 branches, right about at my height (a towering 3 feet, thank you!), so our tree has a very festive and crowded corner quadrant near the bottom - I did a great job! I liked decorating the tree a lot - in fact, I added my ornament hanging skillz to the efforts at Pammy and Cappy’s house, Katil’s house, and Tully’s house! Just call me four-tree Decker, yo!

Today is our last day of school before vacation for 3 weeks. (Mommy must be really jazzed that she gets to have me home for thee weeks solid - she seemed to tear up at the idea! Something about, “I can’t believe you’ll be home … for three weeks… oh my…”). Hee! But at school we’ve been having a grand time talking all about Christmas and Santa Claus and snow and snowmen and reindeer - and singing songs about them, too! My favorites are “Where is Santa?”, “Jingle Bells” (sung Tinkerbells, thank you very much), and “Here is the chimney”. We made presents for our mommies and daddies, and they will get to open them on Christmas morning! We also made some neat art projects, and best of all…we had a visitor to the school on Wednesday: Santa Claus! He came down from the North Pole to visit our classroom, and I got to go stand next to him and tell him what I want for Christmas. Then he gave each of us a really cool teddy bear! Thanks, Santa! Then he went home to the North Pole, to finish getting ready for Christmas.

What will I do during my time off? Well, there’s this video I’ve been watching a bazillion times, called “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street”. It’s very funny and I like to quote it a lot. So I’ll probably watch a lot of that. Plus, I’ve got a new hobby - making cookies! Last night I got to try helping the grown-ups cut out Christmas cookies - I stood on my very own step-stool, and picked out all sorts of cool shapes like snowmen and helicopters, and made a tray of cookies all on my own! Then I got to take the cookies home to eat with my mommy and daddy! Katil, Tully and Pammy were very helpful and helped me roll the dough and stuff like that, but mostly it was me! Can’t wait to do it again - who knew that cookie cutters were for more than cutting out shapes in play doh?

Sutter is still a lot of fun - he can’t do much yet, but he will look at me and when I hold him I pretend that he’s talking to me. I hold up his arm to wave at me, and say “Hi Big Brother!” in a high pitched voice - I’m very funny, if I do say so myself!

Hope you all are having a Merry Christmas!