Annie's Birthday Party

My friend, Annie, had a birthday party, and Mama and I got to attend!  The best part was the Music Together class before we ate cupcakes.  This is a picture of me and my Henry friend doing a parachute game during the class.

The teacher played the guitar, and we sang songs that had finger plays, and songs where I played musical instruments, and even some songs that had special dances.

What a fun, fun way to celebrate a birthday!

Belated Christmas festivities

I am a very lucky girl, because I get to celebrate Christmas THREE times, once with each set of Grandparents.

Papa Todd and Grandma Julie came to celebrate Christmas early with me, and Mama is just now getting around to posting the pictures.  Silly Mama! 

The first thing I did with Grandma and Papa was open presents, and boy did I get some great ones!

The best one was this work bench, which (it turns out) takes a true carpenter to put together.  I learned lots of new carpentry tricks during the construction proceedings.

High Five to Daddy for a successful Work Bench Completion (and good thing Papa was around to help Daddy figure it out)!

And I got this cool book where I press buttons in the pictures to make things happen.  It's my new favorite!

I was pretty happy to have my grandparents stay and play with me!

Papa and Grandma had another surprise for me, too, though... 

Grandma baked me a gingerbread house, and they brought it with for me to assemble and decorate!

I was very careful to line all my candy up in straight rows.

The adults tried to help, too, but whenever they helped, candy seemed to disappear.  Hmmm.

I may have eaten a few pieces, too.

My finished project!

And some lovely cuddle time with Grandma.  What a great early Christmas!

Another visit to Daddy's work

On the way home from running errands last week, I decided that I needed to tell Daddy some important news so Mama and I stopped by his work to visit him.

I had a snack with Daddy, but I didn't want to sit long.

I found the dinosaur Mama and babies!

Daddy showed me the fancy fireplace.

We looked out the window at all the snow.

"No, Daddy, let's go THIS way!"

"Tired?  Why do you think I might be tired?"

Telling stories to the animals

Last week, I noticed a disturbing silence in the house, and found Elsie in the living room whispering stories to her animals as she acted out an elaborate tale. You can't quite make out the words she is saying in the video, but it was pretty cute!