Merry Christmas Cards

It is time for our annual Christmas Cards!

Merry Christmas from the Ridding Family!

Visiting Santa



We decided to pick the kids up early from school one day and visit Santa.

Which turned out to be a really good idea, because there were 2 families in front of us!

 



The kids talked about what they were going to ask for.
Nick asked for a big Leo play set (all he has asked for) and Katheryn wanted the gold ring Shopkins (??)
They said they were going to sit with Santa by themselves and they each practiced their smiles

Even though we didn't have much of a wait the kids still got to play with some of the touch-pad games they had set up (this is different from how Oshawa was set up other years).

 

And then it was time to meet the big guy!

 

Perfect!

Our Christmas tree

It was time for our annual Christmas tree hunt! Where we go out to a tree farm and cut down our Christmas tree. This year it was Katheryn's turn to find a tree.

 

I thought that this year Nick would go in the wheelchair. There wasn't any snow on the ground so I thought we would be able to manage it. Last year Nick went in the wagon and he didn't like it.

But this year he wanted to go in the wagon.



 

Katheryn found the tree she wanted and stuck to it!
It was just as wide as it was tall!

After some renovations in our family room we had changed the corner that the tree goes in to.
The kids were very excited to start decorating and were off to a great start.
They fizzled out after about 30 minutes and then I go to finish it all off

They were really excited finding any of the decorations that they had made or that had their name on it from other years.
Rory wasn't really sure what to make of a tree in the house

I think that our tree with year is Perfect!

Christmas Party

We had our annual Ridding Family Christmas Party

The kids get to spend time with all of their cousins and run around on the dance floor

I didn't actually take that many pictures, but Katheryn watned pictures taken of her with these bows!

And looking really cute!

All of the kids were obsessed with this microphone (which was not plugged in)
And had to be encouraged to share

Everyone happy!
And a really cute Christmas photo

OT group

With Nick out of Campbell's, he is now part of the school-age group of therapy. Which means that he doesn't get one-on-one therapy anymore but they run therapy groups that he can join.

 

They had a OT group for Nov - Dec for 6 weeks and every week they have a different focus.

They have been doing parties and dressing and winter clothes. So they practice put their clothes on and off (extra clothes, overtop what they are wearing).

It is group and practice for the small hand stuff, like buttons and zippers, but also the activities of daily living like getting dressed.

 



 

The weather has been super mild, but the day they had winter clothes, it was raining and 10 degrees outside. But Nick wanted to go out dressed in his snowpants and everything.

 

Of course what he really wanted to do was splash in the rain puddles and get everyone soaking wet!