Lincoln's 1st basketball game

Lincoln is on a team with mostly older kids this year, one boy Lincoln told me, almost in awe, is SEVEN years old.  He seems to enjoy playing for the most part, although he has said several times that he is "not very good at scoring."  During the game, it was obvious he knew they were losing and did not like it when the other team scored.  He would jump up with his hands in the air when his team scored, or put his head down and hunch his shoulders down when the other team scored.  Afterwards I asked him if it was hard to keep track of who he was guarding and he said, "no, well not the first guy." I said why, and he said, "because I was WAY faster then him."  I was a little worried he was going to feel bad since it is pretty obvious he is one of the least experienced on the team. Guess that won't be a problem!

Christmas programs and Christmas

Decorating cookies

Lyla sure looked cute standing up and singing at her preschool program, but I am pretty sure she didn't open her mouth once to sing the entire time!  The most action I saw out of her was when she raised her finger up during one of the songs (one of the actions) and turned and looked at us and smiled...one time.  She was pretty somber looking all the rest of the time.  Still pretty adorable if you ask me.

Grandpa Doug, Grandma Brenda, and Grandma Pam with Lyla after her program.  She is holding a plate she made for us with her handprint on it. 

I didn't get to go to Lincoln's program, but I was told he was a real singer for his entire program.  He told me himself that he "was the loudest," and after watching it on video, I realized this was not too far from the truth!   He sung his little heart out the entire time, as well as some of his classmates.  It was pretty obvious there was some major competition going on to see who could sing the loudest! I didn't post a video clip b/c it was recorded with our video camera, and is a pain to convert to put on the blog. 

Lincoln and his teacher

Schroeder Christmas/cousins

 Yea for snow in NE!  We had a beautiful day to play in the snow.  Matt's dad pulled the sleds with the truck, and it was alot of fun watching everyone take a turn.

Lyla is much more of a trooper about being out in the snow then Lincoln is, so I had to coax him a little to come out and give this a try.  He liked it once he did it, but still didn't last outside very long!

Tofteland Christmas-Grandpa and Grandma and Cousins

This is all we could come up with back home in KS for a snowman.  It was hard to make the snow stick with all the leaves in between! Lyla had the idea to put ears on it and make it a "snow puppy," and she was pretty taken with it after that.  She kept petting it and giving it side hugs. It was pretty cute. She is really into her suffed animal puppies right now-won't go to sleep without what she calls "little puppy."