When Marc came home from work on Friday, I informed him I was Super-Mom. Why? Because I managed to whip up an Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer costume while make a delicious home cooked meal.

Clara seems to have a little obsession with Rudolph, it started earlier in the week when she coloured all the pages in her Christmas colouring book that had a reindeer on them. Then, at the Carrefour Christmas party the spectacle was an excellent play about Rudolph which really caught the kids attention, and finally as a gift from Pere Noël she got a little stuffed reindeer. So, needless to say, by dinner time Clara was in full-reindeer lovin' mode.

Note the bell around her neck, the antlers and, well, the obvious nose :)

The very next day was the Christmas party at Les Ateliers (another community center we've been going to this Fall). Clara got a beautiful face painting, she asked to be a sapin. The artist double checked, "une sapin de Noel?" Clara nodded seriously. A friend commented that Clara may grow up to be an environmentalist, she certainly has enough of an interest in trees!

The party was loads of fun, Santa made another appearance and each child was called up one by one to sit on his lap and recieve a gift. Leo astounded me, when he heard Santa call his name he hopped off my lap and pointed to himself saying "Yeo, that's me" as he walked right up to the big guy!
Clara was also a super-star, she waited patiently for at least 20 minutes for her turn to sit with Santa. It was obvious that she was excited and you could see it in her eyes every time he called a name that she was hoping it would be hers. But she was content to chant the names of each child while they made their way to the front and when her turn did come you should have seen her leap to her feet with a huge grin spread across her face!