Every little girl and boy needs a roller coaster in their basement. The girls and I played in the basement this day after Christmas trying to burn off some energy and calories from all the Christmas goodies we’ve been enjoying. Here is a cute video of Alicia riding the roller coaster. I love her smile at the end, and her sister rooting her on in the background: “Alicia go!”
Adrianna and Alicia love to read at night. They love to read to each other. Usually they each have to have their own book or it can get rather unruly. But for the most part we enjoy our evening ritual of a book before bedtime. I especially love how Alicia will snuggle down into Adrianna’s bed as if she were going to sleep there!
As you can imagine Adrianna is very excited about Christmas, and though she will tell you that Christmas is when we celebrate Christ’s birth, she is very excited about Santa Claus. Santa was at the store the other day so we got the girls ready to go see him. We kept it a surprise for Adrianna, since she has been asking about him since Halloween we thought she would be so excited to see him. Unfortunately when we saw him Adrianna didn’t want anything to do with him, she isn’t the best with surprises. After a lap around the store she was ready to see Santa and tell him what she wanted. Alicia on the other hand did not want anything to do with Santa, though she did let us get close as long as I was holding her. It wasn’t quite the picture perfect visit we had imagined, but it was much better than waiting hours at the mall or some other contrived experience.
What do you think Adrianna asked Santa for this Christmas? Well, Sarah’s cousin Bobby convinced her some time ago that if she could ask Santa for something she should ask for a pony. A big pony that she could ride. (He owes us for this one!) So, when Adrianna built up the courage to talk to Santa, she asked for a pony; specifically a pony that she could ride. Santa just laughed and smiled! Hopefully she’ll settle for a pony ride from her cousin on Christmas day.
We have had some frigid temperatures here lately along with a bit of snow. I personally enjoy the very winter like weather, especially snuggling up with my girls. We are all hoping that we can have a White Christmas with some snow on the ground. Here are some pictures I took Sunday morning.
We want to wish everyone a fun and Happy Evening of Trick-or-Treating, or whatever else you will be doing tonight! Adrianna is very excited to go trick-or-treating, as she has now realized that she gets to dress up and go around asking people for candy and they will give it to her! Last night we carved these pumpkins with cousin Bobby and she had a blast pulling out the “Pumpkin Brains”. Alicia enjoyed watching and trying to help scoop, and eating popcorn. Bobby did a great job helping Adrianna carve her pumpkin (the one on the right).
With cute girls come lots of cute dresses. Adrianna is growing so fast that she has outgrown some of her dresses without wearing them much. So we try our best to take pictures of them in their dresses every chance we get. The negative side effect of this picture taking is that every time you pull out a camera Alicia starts saying “cheese”, and puts on her cheesy grin! Luckily we got one of her natural smile as well. So here they are in dresses that their Grandmother gave them.
Thank you Mom for the dresses!
The colors didn’t come out quite as nice as they actually were, but I think you get the picture!
We finished canning our third box of peaches tonight. I think we did a total of 60 lbs. I can't wait to reap the benefits of all the work. We decided that since we still have jars of peach jam from last year that we should try canning peach slices. They came out very nice and they are worth the effort to can them: Blanching, Peeling, Pitting, Slicing, Canning, and Processing (Boiling). We are going to try some pears next, woo hoo!
What are uncles for if not to throw you around and get hyped up?
At a recent family dinner both girls enjoyed getting thrown around by their uncle David and uncle Zane. Alicia is a little trick though, she will latch onto you for dear life if you try to throw her too high!
August 27th, 2008
One of Adrianna's first preschool assignments was to make a representative doll of herself. Sarah helped her put this fine doll together, complete with soccer ball and all. Sarah also helped her rehearse a short biography about herself that she could share with her teachers and friends in preschool. It is wonderful to see how excited she gets about Preschool.
