Merry Christmas! (and some house projects)

Daddy is replacing a post in the basement, and it's been a bit of a fight. The first picture shows what the post did to Daddy. The second shows what DADDY did to the post. (I think Daddy's winning.) We burned the post's remains in the fireplace last night. Good riddance to rotten posts. All in favor of buying a new house next time say "Aye!"

Mommy and I built a snowman while Daddy cleared a path for the car to go in our parking area for the first time since Dec. 17. Sadly, it appears that the snow is melting quickly. Bye bye, winter wonderland. 

(News report: Mommy just looked out the window and pictured snowman is laying down on the stairs. Either he got tired, or the snow really is melting...)

Winter Wonderland

I did NOT want to go skiing with Mommy because I am TIRED of getting layers and layers of clothes on every time we go outside! Mommy took me to the park, though, and I forgave her. 

Birthday!

For those of you that missed the fun: 

On Friday night, we ate at Red Robin, and then the wait staff sang a song to me, which I sang over and over on the way home. Then I opened some presents at home with Mom and Dad - they made me wait ALL day...  

At my party on Saturday, my friends and I decorated cookies. We may have ingested more candy and frosting than we actually got on the cookies.

Mommy decorated my cake with a kitty, and my friends were very interested in taking the candles out of the cake. 

We played with my new tea set, and later I modeled my new pj's. (Thanks, G and G Glenn!)

It was a very eventful two day celebration! Thanks to all who were able to share it with me (in body and spirit)!

Woo Hoo!

Ever since Thanksgiving, Elsa thinks any day home with Mom and Dad is a holiday. Now, she's got 16 in a row! Hooray for snow!

Snow!

Marshmallows are distracting!

Daddy held me still for a picture, but then I was right back to the hot chocolate with marshmallows. Man, I love this tradition! All these ornaments to play with, a manger scene to rearrange, Christmas lights all around, treats like hot chocolate, candy canes galore...

O Christmas Tree

Puppy and I are on our way to go get a Christmas tree!

How about this one?

Here's a bigger one!

Daddy and I cut down the biggest and best tree we could find.

Stay tuned for the decorations...

Summer in December

Grandma told me to go pick some clothes out this morning, so I did. Mommy NEVER lets me dress this way! Thanks, Grandma! (See, I even have my cat collar on.) (And by the way, that is not a pose. Mommy rues the day I see advertisements of pretty girls posing like this. This shot, completely an accident.)

Grandma made me a gingerbread house to decorate! I screamed at Mommy for a while before dinner when she refused to let me eat more frosting and even moved the house out of the reach of me and my usually handy stool. Then I threw an onion and got a time out.

By the way, my other Grandparents do a lot of fun things with me, too. Mommy's just not usually around to document it with photos. Love you, G and G!

Park at Dusk

I can't believe this... my daughter is surfing a popular video sharing site for twinkle twinkle songs.

While you were sleeping...

Lincoln came over to visit the other day!


Later, while Elsa was supposed to be sleeping:

Daddy Time

Well, Elsa finally had some daddy time last night. This seems like one of the only times when Elsa is excited to play with Daddy. We had a lot of fun hanging out with grandma and grandpa G and then having some ice cream and then reading books and singing songs. Daddy's favorite part went like this during our story time:

Daddy: "Luuuuuke, I am your Faaaatheeeer." (I often say random things... which she tends to enjoy)
Elsa: "Say it again"
Daddy: "Luuuuuke, I am your Faaaatheeeer."
Elsa: "Say it normal" (so I can understand you)
Daddy: "Luke, I am your Father."
Elsa: "Say it like you did before"
Daddy: "Luuuuuke, I am your Faaaatheeeer."
Daddy: "Ellllllssssaaaa, I am your Faaaatheeeer."
Elsa: "Say Luke again"
Daddy: "Luuuuuke, I am your Faaaatheeeer."
Elsa: "Daaaddddyyy... I am your Daaauuggghhhttteeerr" (it was a good impression for never having seen the film.)
Daddy: LOL "Say that again"
Elsa: "Daaadddyyy... I am your Janeeeee." (I call her 'janie' sometimes)
Daddy: "Say what you said the first time" Still LOL

Elsa is hilarious. It was amazing how fast she decided to substitute her own words into the quote. I use this and any other silly songs I remember from my youth. Lately it has been, "Jingle Bells, Batman smells..." She gets a kick out of it and asks for it often (when she forgets that she is not supposed to like playing with daddy).

Halloween, and such

Trick or Treat! I was a crab, but I told one nice lady that I was a crab pretending to be a lion. (ROAR!) Couldn't quite shake the memory of last year. And what do crabs say, anyway?

Wheee! After Daddy flew Elsa Airplane around for a while, Elsa tried to take him for a spin.

Puppy, at the age of 31, learns how to walk.

How do I look in Mommy's new goggles? (By the way, Mommy has yet to muster the determination to actually get to the pool for some lap swimming.)

WooHoo! So much fun I slept all the way home!

I saw a 2000 year old Egyptian Mummy today, compared my hand to a dinosaur footprint, and wrote my very first word! I wrote both of the D's and told Daddy that those D's were for Dad. Then I drew two parallel lines and said "is that an A?" I know, I'm a genius. I know how to spell Elsa, Mom, Dad, and I want to learn Bear and Baby.




Mommy and I ran FAST to the fountain where I tried so hard to convince Mommy that the green, murky water was not too far down to touch. Then I had a little fun with Dad and fell down because I got "bizzy!"

I love birthdays

I helped decorate the cake. This was a joint party for Grandpa and Evan and there were 67 candles. We lit one for Evan but didn't light all of Grandpa's per Grandma's suggestion ("Do you really want that much spit on your cake?")

Welcome Friends... Goodbye Sun

Well, we decided to make Elsa's blog 'private' so it would not be available to everyone in the whole wide world. We hope it is not too much of a pain to sign in.

Here is some bonus footage of our beautiful, intelligent daughter. We hope this wasn't our last fun day in the sun.



What Elsa sees:




This does not make our Elsa dizzy... ahhhh, to be young again. ; )

Fun Weekend

Elsa enjoyed the "reminder-of-summer" sun on Saturday. She did some awesome tricks on the trike at Grandma and Grandpa's:

Then we headed to the farmer's market to watch Grandma carry an egg on chopsticks in a farmer's relay (Grandma's team didn't win, but they raised a whole bunch of money for the local food bank). I still can't figure out why I couldn't be in the relay - here I am sitting on the bin of zucchini batons, and pouting a little:

This pumpkin was not the winner of the heaviest pumpkin contest - that one wouldn't come out of the bed of a truck without some help!

My cousing Evan followed me EVERYWHERE (even to the bathroom, where I strictly reminded him not to put his hands in the potty). Too bad Mom didn't catch any pictures of the two of us together.

In Bed

Elsa put her stuffed animals to bed. Notice that moose's bed is the dustpan.

Grey Day

It's cold out. Elsa and Moose are wearing their slippers this morning.

First Football Game

Elsa loved her first football game. This morning when I asked what she liked about it, she said "the music." I said, "Oh, you liked the band! What else did you like?" She said "the candy!" (A little girl sitting next to Elsa shared her fruit snacks.) During the game when the cheerleaders were using their pom poms she commented, "You'll have to get me some of those so I can use them when I want to." I said, "Sure. And we'll get you a trumpet, and a football so you can practice sports and music, too!" : )

O, Happy Day!