Sisterly Love

This morning we were getting ready to go to a kids Christmas party through John's work. I was in the bathroom and the girls were playing on our bed. John was horsing around with them and he was playing the "I'm going to get you" game with them. He pretended he was about to get Maddie and before he even touched her, Emma yelled "dad, don't toucha my Maddie" and Madison yelled back "don't touch my Emma" and then they gave each other a big hug! Super cute!

We got to the party and it was so much fun. Rogers puts on a kids party each year, and the cost is a donation for the daily food bank. We brought 4 cans of beans etc and the kids loved just putting the cans in the big box. Then there was a clown on stilts and a bunch of kids standing around him. When the girls walked up he was juggling and he "dropped" one of the balls and asked Emma to put it back in his hat. She did it and everyone clapped and she was just beaming! He seemed to pick up on the fact that they were sisters so right away he gave Maddie a turn. She was a bit shy but then she picked the ball up and threw it! lol Everyone laughed as it was cute and she hid behind my leg but then she picked it up again and put it in the hat and they all clapped for her. Rogers really goes all out for this thing. There are rides (a carousel, dumbo airplanes, roller coasters, bumper cars, jumping castles, slides etc), craft areas, face painting, pictures with Santa and with live reindeer, parachute activities, a live show etc etc. It was a lot of fun and we stayed for over 2 hours but then we had two very tired, overstimulated girls. They slept for two hours this afternoon. Oh, and each child gets an age appropriate present and the girls got a Backyardigans viewmaster, and they spent the afternoon pulling out and putting back in the different slides. It was a very successful outing!