Christmas and New Years

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been busy visiting with family. Here are a bunch of pictures from the past few weeks. Needless to say that I've been having a lot of fun.

Here I am with Grandma on Christmas Eve

No helping mom, you can only hold the presents

Mom, take a look at this

Uncle Rich is so silly sometimes!

I can do this myself dad

Grandma, looks like you need some help opening presents

Daddy with my youngest cousin Asher

Look, Santa ate the cookies I left for him on Christmas Eve and his reindeer ate the carrots. He left me a thank you note and some presents.

Hmmm, where did Santa hide the presents?

I found them!

Good thing Santa was listening to me, I really love my Dora presents!

Here Puck, I opened your stocking for you, looks like you've made the nice list again.

More presents in the stocking

How did Santa know I like Diego too?

Me and Daddy opening my other presents

This is what we woke up to Christmas morning, I love snow!!

More presents

Here we are at Lala's house on Christmas morning.

Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house

Here I am reading to my cousin Logan while we wait to open presents

I love to dress up!

Grandma reading to us

Wow, look at this neat clubhouse from Nana and Papa!!

They were the first people I invited into my clubhouse with me.

Look, they even got presents for the baby!

Thanks for the new hat Nana, I love it!

I love reading books

Butterfly princess

Great-Grandma reading to me

More presents! Thanks Great Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Bill and Aunt Gail.

No fair, look what the grown ups are doing after I go to bed!!

Our snow on the Wednesday after Christmas.

I was so excited about New Years Eve I skipped my nap for the day, this is what happens at 5pm when I skip my nap.

Nana and Papa sent a big box with presents in it. I had to dive in to make sure all of the presents were out. I took two Dora dolls in with me to help. One was really small and daddy had to really look to find her and get her out. I like playing in this box so much that we're keeping it until Nana and Papa get here in a few days.

I like to get in some baking this time of the year. I let mommy help me - we told daddy to stay out of the kitchen except to take pictures. I made my first gingerbread house. And we made cookies!

Sometimes if I'm good mommy and daddy let us eat dinner downstairs while watching TV. The other night a man brought pizza to our front door and we ate it downstairs!

Holiday Festival

A week ago I went to a Holiday Festival with my friend Landry (we let our parents tag along, they seem to like to follow us around like that). Thanks to Landry's parents we have pictures, my parents are getting old and can't remember to bring the camera (Mommy does claim something about baby brain - not sure what Daddy's excuse is though). We got to see Santa, a magic tree and each got a balloon insect made. Landry got a bumblebee and I got a butterfly. We had a lot of fun even though it was really cold that night.

Visit with Santa

Last night Mommy and Daddy took me to the mall to see Santa. I was a little timid but I sat on his lap and told him that I've been a good girl and what I would like for Christmas "Dora presents". I got scared when everyone was trying to get me to smile for the pictures, I started crying and wanted my Mommy so I forgot to tell him that I would share my Dora presents with my new brother because that is what I told Mommy on the way home. I also forgot to tell him that my dog Puck has been a good boy all year and would like a "puppy bone" in his stocking, but I'm sure Santa already knows that because he's always watching to see if we are naughty or nice. Of course I'm at the top of the nice list!