Apple Tree Christmas

Auntie Beth--this is for you!

Last Christmas, Hannah received this special book (signed  for her by the author/illustrator) from Auntie Beth & Uncle Dick. She LOVES it.  I have to say I love this book, too. It is a wonderful story. Recently we have been reading it a bunch. So when Paul had to chop down a dead tree in our back yard the other week for brush collection...Hannah was quick to discover a new place to play and pretend. She saw the newly sawed-off stump and literally RAN for a stash of paper and pencil yelling "I'm gonna be Katrina and play Apple Tree Christmas!"  I love that my girls are using their imaginations....

You can't tell from the angle of this picture but she is sitting in the "fork" of the tree...

Katrina of "Apple Tree Christmas" using the old apple tree as her drawing studio