Celia and Sabrina: December Art

The monthly installment you've all been waiting for!  The December art created by the Stock ladies.  

In December, we had a straggler fairy.  Her name is Sadie, as you can tell.  I was supposed to cut off everything to her right because it was all a mess-up.  But I think Celia's mess-ups are quite artistic, so I kept it.  Shhh.  Don't tell.  

Then we had our Christmas series.  I like these ones.  The manger scene, Mary on the donkey, and the angel and star.  

Celia made a few family pictures this month including Caleb (who's not born yet, of course).  In this one, Caleb is a little kid.  Sabrina is saying "mommy" and I'm responding to my kids "wah wah wah wah wah..." a la Charlie Brown, I imagine.  I always know just what to say.

This is a picture of all of us (without Tom) again.  The one that looks like Caleb to the left is actually me, with Caleb sitting in the blue Bumbo behind me.  Celia and Sabrina are thinking about hearts... and their names.

I think their last name is Looman.  And I think their names are Angelica and Sally (those are the current names Celia picks for everything).

 I frankly have no idea what this is.  But I think Grandma is bringing the girls some sort of treat if I remember correctly.

I asked Celia about this after Sunday School.  She said Sabrina is giving her something.  I asked her how that made her a good example and she was like "I don't know."  And then Sabrina said: "That's not me."  When Celia assured her that it was, Sabrina said: "That's not me.  Where's my glasses?"  Then Celia was all embarrassed about how she forgot Sabrina's glasses.  It was funny.

Celia is really into doodle books where they give you a prompt and you make the rest of the picture.  She got some for her birthday last year from Grandma and Grandpa and is almost finished with those.  Nana and Papa gave her some new ones for Christmas.  This is a page in one of those.  So, here's the mermaid.  Behind her is her bottle of pink hair dye.  That's a chest of drawers with a sink in front of her.  It has a basket full of red shells to put in her hair.  She's holding one of the shells from the basket because she is about to put it in her hair.  

So what has Sabrina been up to?  She drew some awesome giraffes.  I love these guys.

This is a giraffe with a person, I think.

 This one is funny.  I was getting the Christmas letter together and I wanted to put something in from Sabrina.  I asked her if she wanted to draw a picture of herself or baby Caleb.  She got all excited about drawing a picture of Caleb.  Then she was very serious drawing this.  When she was finished, I said: "That's baby Caleb?" and she said "No, mommy, it's a purple pony!"

 This one is technically not December because she just drew it yesterday, but I wanted to include it because she was practicing glasses.  They look good.  

In other news, Celia has become even more of a reader, if you can imagine.  Over the school break, I gave her Charlotte's Web.  She read the whole thing in her room in three days and told me all about it.  Then I gave her Mouse and a Motorcycle.  Again, she finished it in three days in her room and is now working on the second one in the series: Runaway Ralph.  Every morning, she tells me all about what's happening in her book.