Extended Steinbrink Family Christmas

The extended family Christmas for the Steinbrink's was at Robin & Cheryl's in Crookston this year!  It was fun for Emma to play with her cousin, Elizabeth, as well as all of daddy's cousins and his cousins children! 

Spending time at "This is Sew Broadway"

Emma finally was able to sit down with Nana Cheryl at the quilt shop to make her first sewing project. She chose 3 different flannel fabrics--one with flowers and 2 different colors of snowflakes.  With a few minor interruptions--a nap being one of them, they were able to finish. Now, instead of bringing her travel pillow to preschool for rest time, she insists on bringing her full size flannel pillow! 

What a 2 year old (at the time) does during a school board meeting...

Our district has begun using a new intervention program for lower level readers and I was asked to talk about it briefly at a school board meeting in November. Elliot was on shift, so Emma had the pleasure of coming with me!  My classroom is just off the library, so I took magnets & games off the bookshelf, paper and crayons out of the drawers and let her play in my classroom.  She was a perfect angel while we were preparing for the meeting-only came out once to tell me that she put her name on the board---she had picked out her letters and put them up there.  :)  She was great until she heard my voice coming from the room next door when it was my turn to present...nevertheless, she came out and clung to my leg.  About a minute or so in---and a beat red face on mommy, she exclaimed "I need to go potty!"  Thank goodness nearly everyone else in the room had a 3 year old in their life at some given time and it got a chuckle out of everyone.