Santa trike

Maren’s first ever drawing of something that looks like the thing she is drawing:

It’s a snowman with long arms and legs. The red things are Christmas cookies. After this picture was taken she proceeded to put chocolate chips in some of them by adding dots. What’s amazing about this is that she has essentially never before attempted to draw anything other than scribbles. I’m not sure why suddenly today she was able to try and succeed at drawing something, but this went up on the fridge immediately and I love it ❤️

She is super into Christmas, especially Santa Claus, even though she is aware that Santa is not real and is just a story about Christmas magic. This is her on her “sleigh,“ dressed as Santa Claus, with Rudolph attached to her hat.

She has also been a big help decorating the Christmas tree. She put up every single ornament, and they are packed quite densely in a couple of areas.

The end of semester here is busy, and I have a term paper to grade that isn’t due until Thursday at 5 PM, so my holidays don’t really start until it’s almost Christmas. But the amount of excitement around Christmas that a three-year-old can produce makes everything seem more magical.