Dec- Week 2- McKenna Program, Zoo lights, Mo Tab, Ward Party

Monday, McKenna had a Christmas Concert at her school.  Each grade sang two songs.  I know these pictures are blurry but it's the best we could do from far away.  She's in the middle, grey sweater, second row up from the bottom.  

They sang, Must Be Santa and I Want to be an Elf.  

We enjoyed smoothies at Swig afterwards with my siblings and the Roth family.  

One morning Ben said, "Mom, take a picture and send it to dad."  Ok buddy. :) 

Tuesday, we were invited by our friends, the Alexanders, to the Jazz Vs. Spurs game!  Wow, what an awesome game that was!  We actually won... and had great seats!! 

They were slightly better seats than Jerry Sloan. ;) Thanks John and Rachael! 

Wednesday, we went with lots of Dan's family to see Zoo lights!  

The carousel is always a favorite.  

We ate Little Caesar's pizza and had a treat at Ugurt afterwards. 

Thursday, we took McKenna to the Mo Tab Christmas Concert with special guests this year being the Sesame Street Muppets and Santino Fontana (the voice of Hans from Frozen).  We ended up with some extra tickets and were able to take one of McKenna's friends, Bridget, and her mom as well.  Unfortunately, our tickets were split up 2 and 3, so we couldn't see McKenna's reactions (since she wanted to sit by her friend). She said she missed having someone to snuggle, but over-all, she loved it! 

Thursday night, right before we left for the concert, Anna was on our bed and tried to get down by herself. Our bed is up so high, that even though she was going feet first, Dan tried to catch her and she ended up bouncing into our bed frame and she got quite the goose egg.  Thankfully it only barely broke the skin.  

Friday was our ward Christmas Party. The kids got to sit on Santa's lap again and Anna clearly LOVED it. ;) 

The Primary kids sang Said Samuel and Ben, who is still in nursery, knew it well enough he joined them.  Other entertainment that night was a junior high jazz band from SLC and McKenna and some friends (including Anna) had a blast dancing to their music.  

Saturday morning we went with the entire Webster family to Breakfast with Santa at the Davis County Conference Center.  The food was amazing and they had great activities for the kids! 

Face painting

Cookie decorating

Sitting on the big guy's lap

Each child got a new stuffed animal after they sat on Santa's lap.  Anna loved her new puppy.  

The whole group!  

The 6(!) year olds!! 

The Grinch and Cindy Lou Whoo were also walking around.  

Sunday, we had our first experience with "nursemaid's elbow."  Anna was on our bed again before church.  I grabbed her hand/wrist to pull her towards me, and I felt a pop.  She cried and cried and then proceeded to not use that arm/hand.  She wouldn't eat any lunch, and since Ben and McKenna had runny noses that day, we decided to stay home from church all together.  I managed to put Anna down for a nap, but when she woke up things weren't any better with her arm.  

I called the pediatrician and they knew right away from my story that it was nursemaid's elbow and I had never heard of it.  They wanted me to bring her in so they could pop it back in place.  However, the doctor on call that night wasn't comfortable doing it and didn't want to cause more pain, so they told me to go to an InstaCare instead.  We happened to be the second nursemaid's elbow the doctor had seen that night and he was very nice about it even though I felt like a schlubb knowing I had caused this!  He first felt the good arm, then the bad one, and popped it back in in seconds.  He brought in two suckers to make sure she'd grab with the good and bad hand and sure enough, she was all better!  Lesson learned!  

This incident on top of missing a major rehearsal, caused me to miss performing in our stake Christmas program that I had practiced for since Halloween.  Oh well.  Dan was nice enough to put the kids to bed by himself and let me at least go watch one of the performances.  :)