Holiday Recap Day 3: Christmas morning

Kole got a reindeer sweater – not quite as gaudy as one might hope, but after 4 years of thrift searches, this is the first one I found.

I found Maggie Mercer Mayer’s The Snowy Day, a book I really enjoyed as a child.  We’ve been reading it fairly often.

Maggie got some new camping gear – the Fisher Price nature campsite.

And a doctor’s kit.

Wally helped open gifts when Maggie started slowing down.

Oh, and the table and chairs were very well received.  She has spent quite a bit of time practicing her understanding of the word not with them – not pink, blue (Maggie rearranges all chairs so blue is next to her), not yellow, pink (rearrange again), not pink, blue (rearrange again)… you get the picture.

Holiday Recap Day 2

The stockings were hung…

The tree was lit…

And the gifts were placed underneath.

Santa stopped by with some special treats for the little one.

You may recognize this table and chairs from a previous post – thank goodness Santa’s got some pals that like to paint.

The other furniture from that post is also on the list for a rehaul before some little munchkin turns two.  Seriously, she’s going to be 2.  I can’t believe it!

Hello 2011!

Well, the new year arrived amidst very little fanfare at our house.  It was welcomed, however, by binge eating of ice cream and repeated applications of Chloraseptic spray as the three of us battled through strep throat.  We’re better now, and we thought we’d take this week to share some photos from the holidays to get you up to speed.

Holiday Recap Day 1: We did some sledding – Maggie is a big fan.  Wally, too.

Old Timey Family Christmas

We were able to use an early Christmas gift this past weekend to take part in a Christmas Celebration of days gone by.

There were beautiful views all around us – only marred by some little kid with pig tails chanting “Ride a horse!”
for several hours… Really, who would tell their child about the horses at, oh, 10:30am when they weren’t going to see them until 2pm?

(insert uncomfortable silence and me looking at the floor here)

We frosted cookies at the Belgian Farmhouse.

Danced to the dulcimer in the Hospital building.

Printed a Christmas message at the Print Shop.

Listened to the choir at the Moravian Church… and then yelled, “more, more?”

And finally rode the horses.

And then the sun set on what was a really great family day.

 

Dear Santa, you’ve lost one.

Say “Santa” to Maggie, you’ll get a half-hearted  “ho, ho”.   Mention Rudolph? Now that’s where it’s at!  You’ll get a shimmy, a dance, a yelp, and a little girl frantic to find her stuffed Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or better yet...

Lalalalalalalalambeau Field!

That’s us in Santa’s locker at Lambeau.  Oh wait, you couldn’t tell?  Hmmm.  Maybe it’s because the lady who took the picture neglected to get the S. Claus name plate and upper part of the locker in the picture.  It’s one of Kole’s biggest pet peeves – people who can’t set up decent photos.  In their defense, he’s awfully particular, but seriously…

They were best friends…for about 20 minutes.

Maggie made a big discovery Sunday morning…

Yes, that’s a caterpillar crawling on the family room carpeting.

A caterpillar… in December… We figure it must have been hibernating on the Christmas tree, and finally warmed up enough to come on down and say hello.

There were shrieks, squeals, and peals of laughter along with well-timed OH NO’s when the caterpillar crawled off his paper and back onto the carpeting.

She watched intently, petted gently, and moved the papers to “dump” her new friend in new locales.

And as I scoured the internet to discover how we might keep this Wooly Bear Caterpillar/future moth alive for the winter, Kole dumped him outside and was met with the fury of the youngest girl in the house.