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On Christmas Eve my Aunt Deb took me to see the Festival of Lights downtown. They were so pretty. There were so many people we had to come back another night to see all the great lights. There were toy soldiers, carolers and elves everywhere. The tree inside the hotel was thirty feet tall and had ornaments as big as my head. We walked all over and all the lights and Christmas trees were so pretty.
The top of the tree is the most important part. We used star ornaments, that I made, last year. This year I found the perfect tree topper. My santa hat. The top of our tree is a little crooked from being in the box. The hat hides that part and is so cool.
I decorated a stocking for my kitties. I did it myself with puffy paint and it was lots of fun. It is their first Christmas. I wonder if they believe in Santa Claus too.
This is a really funny movie. It's about Scott Calvin who accidentally kills Santa Claus and puts on his clothes and delivers the presents. He finds out that he agreed to be Santa Claus when he did that. At first he doesn't want to and he is really funny when he is turning into Santa. He decides to try it and his son's family thinks that he is insane and make it so he can't see him anymore. In the end he makes everyone believe and he is happy.
I think being Santa made him more happy than what he did before. We should do what makes up happy and we will do it better.
In this movie Santa has a cold. He thinks that there is no Christmas Spirit left so he decides to take the year off. He doesn't think anyone will notice. Mrs. Claus sends two elves south to find some spirit to cheer up Santa. Because they all fix it so it snows where it never snows people start believing again and children all over the world send Santa letters and Christmas gifts. He is so happy that his cold goes away and he delivers Christmas gifts.
I really liked Snow and Heat Misers. I think this movie shows we should always do what we know is right even though it seems like no one else cares.
This is my favorite Christmas movie. My stuffed penguin Topper is named after this movie. It tells the story of an orphan who gets raised by the Kringle elf family. They used to be toy makers and they teach Kris all about it. When he grew up he took their toys to town but their was a mean mayor who didn't like toys. Kris does all kinds of tricky things to hide the toys from him. The story tells why Santa wears red and has flying reindeer and lives at the North Pole.
No matter what, Kris didn't give up. You are supposed to follow rules even if you don't think they are good rules so that was kind of naughty but I think he did a good thing.
Last night I saw the Grinch movie. I thought it would be more like the book Mom reads to me. I really like Jim Carrey.
In this story you see how The Grinch comes to Whoville. People weren't very nice to him. It got really good when he stole Christmas and his heart grew.
I think people should be nice to each other. I would be mean too, if I were The Grinch.
We baked Gingerbread cookies tonight. Now I know why Santa has a big stomach. Mom didn't get any of the first batch. We made the mix and rolled the dough out. We used the cookie cutters Granny gave me to make shapes. We had Santa and a sleigh and reindeer. An angel and a Christmas star. Mom found a gingerbread man too. After we cut the cookies out I put sprinkles on them. They were so cool.
I made a fun E-card for my dad. You upload your own pictures and then turn someone into a baby Santa Claus. He moves around and drinks milk and stuff. Mom says I can't post a link to the video here. Here are some pictures from it. My favorite part was when baby daddy dances. You can make one of your own at http://www.americangreetings.com/channel/huggies
This is about a dog named Zeus who gets adopted from the shelter. He used to be a police dog. He had to quit because he stopped being able to bark.The mom of the family that adopts him would rather have an alarm than a watch dog that can't bark.
Just before Christmas the dog catches bad guys trying to steal everything. They had been robbing houses all over the street. He learns to bark again and he saved Christmas for everyone. Everyone is happy.
Zeus learned that just because you did something wrong doesn't mean you are bad. That is hard to know, I think.
For Christmas. I also made my background. Mom is going to teach me to tile my backgrounds. The best part of blogging is learning mew things. There are more pictures HERE including a picture I made for my Aunt Debra.
This was a really fun movie. It was two stories. The first was about a carrot whose truck broke down and he couldn't pay to get it fixed and so he was going to miss Christmas. Bob the Tomato told the story of Saint Nicholas who learned to give because God made him happy. Bob's story made everyone in town want to help the carrot and they fixed his truck and decorated his house and gave him a Christmas tree for his family.
My favorite part was when everybody fell into the cart and the sheep got caught up in and it slid in the snow and looked like Santa and his reindeer flying. I learned that giving a present can make you just as happy as getting one. But I think it's more fun to get one.
I saw ELF. It was really good. It was a story about a orphan baby named Buddy that snuck into Santa's bag and ended up at the North Pole. He was raised to be an elf even though he was much bigger than they were.He wasn't good at being an elf and his adopted dad told him his real dad lived in New York. He met a pretty girl and found out he had a brother. He wasn't good at being a human either so he left. Right then Santa was going by and his sleigh broke because no one believed in him anymore. Buddy tried to fix the motor and Buddy's brother and girl friend tried to make everyone believe. Because of Buddy people had Christmas Spirit and Christmas was saved.
Elf is a really funny movie. Buddy didn't fit in but he still did things his way. I would probably try to be like everyone else if I could. My favorite part was the snowball fight.
Last night I got a video message from Santa. He knew my name. He knew about Thanksgiving. He even knew about my science experiments. He said I have been doing a better job at keeping my temper this year. I thought it was fake because Mom can do stuff like that but he knew my name! That was so cool. He even knows what I really want for Christmas but I haven't sent him my letter yet! This is going to be a great holiday!! Guess what? I am on the nice list. Mom says it's because I try real hard.
