SNOW MUCH FUN!!!!!

An old friend gave me this idea! It sure beats playing outside in the cold all morning. Yes, that is indeed snow in the bathtub.

Savannah just did not know what to think of this, but she was happy about it.

It's cold Mummy

Climbing up for a better view



This is what happens when you leave three 2 year olds alone with snow for a minute! They were all throwing it in the hallway and into Savannah's room. She is mad because her socks got wet!


It's so much fun. I love this cute photo of her.

She actually had two other girls her age helping play in there, but I can't put their photos on my blog :(

This is the snowman we made.

Then we decided it needed to have warm hands.

And warm feet!

SMILE!!!!! :D

I'm Too Excited to Sleep!!!!

A little boy in a Disney commercial years ago said that. Well that's the way I felt last night/early this morning! I was awake from 4am until 6am. UGH! Anyone who knows me knows I am NOT a morning person.

So, yep, we are going to DisneyWorld for the second time in a year! This time we know what it is all about and are comfortable going and know what to do, so it is much more exciting. Also we are staying in Florida for a whole extra week, so we will get to do a lot more things. Tickets for SeaWorld and Universal Studios are already booked.

I was rather dissapointed last time not to see any of the Florida scenery, other than from the airplane. This time we will be going on an airboat ride to see gators, going to the beach, going to a public garden in Orlando, among lots of other things.

As an added bonus we get to meet an old friend of Rick's and her family, complete with an adopted daughter close to Savannah's age! Kim I can hardly wait to meet you and your little family! It will be nice to have someone who knows the area show us around and give us the scoop on everything! :D

This trip was rather quick in the planning and decision to go, but boy is it gonna be awesome!!!! Yep, I'm definitely too excited to sleep!

Making Pie

New Year's Day Savannah and I decided to make the pumpkin pie that was supposed to be for Christmas! There were too many other goodies to worry about pie that day though.

First I showed her how to do each step.

Then she did it on her own!


This is serious business!

You mean I am allowed to get my hands this messy?

This is going to be delicious with a little extra help! :)

Gotta get this just right.

Is it supposed to look like that?

There are no photos of the finished product. Wouldn't want to make you too hungry! Miss Savannah had to go for her nap so she wasn't able to help finish it either. That's okay, it was 'licious anyway, especially with the Nutriwhip!

"I Wuf (Wuv) You!"

For quite awhile we have been teaching Savannah to say I - point to your eyes, Love - fold your arms across your chest, You - point to the other person. More recently we have started with the same thing only instead of ending with you saying Mummy, Daddy, etc. Savannah started with "I" - pointing to her eyes and then "YOU!" - pointing to you. Then it progressed to "I Wuf You!" Just in the past few days she has started saying "I Wuv you Mummy" or "I Wuv you Daddy" when she is giving us a hug. It's so cute to see her do that! And nice to hear it when she is doing it to me!!!

Diapering Baby Garfield!!!

For awhile, when we had the baby, Savannah was obssessed with helping do everything for every baby! This was one day when she decided Garfield was a baby and needed a diaper too.

Getting supplies from Mummy's diaper bag!

Now how do you fit in here baby?

Oops! Silly baby.

Gotcha, now I just have to figure this thing out. Baby diapers are MUCH harder than my own.

I think I have the hang of it now.

There we go baby.

All done. Proud little Mummy! Now when can I do the real baby's diaper?

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!

Savannah decorating one of our front windows with vinyl stickers.

A santa craft we did with my dayhome kids. She is VERY proud of it.

Decorating my "little kid" tree.


She found this cat costume and had to put it on for photos!


Megan. I love this photo, she looks so happy for once! Not her usual photo face.


Savannah with Santa. Next time we saw him was in a mall and she got her photo taken there as well. Everytime she saw him after that she'd holler "I see Santa! I see Santa!!!"


Concentrating on crushing cookies for a recipe Megan was making. This is year number two of making cookies for our neighbors. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of Megan's finished product to show you. How do you like the tool Savannah is using! She couldn't do it with the rolling pin, it was too heavy. This hammer was just right.

Yes Mummy, I see you watching me!

The shortbread dough was just too much of a temptation!

Daddy and Denver. Denver is mixing the filling for his cookies.

Dirty, happy girl!

Daddy's haystacks

Decorating the tree.

Finished product

Our new tree topper!

The "mittens" I made for an ornament exchange.

Denver's finished product.

Mummy's sugar cookies.

The trays we gave to the neighbor's. Complete with an invitation to the live Nativity pagent at our church. The bar closest to the front of this photo is one of Megan's. So I guess I do have sort of a picture of hers!

Before

During. Some candy sampling was going on!

She did pretty well with it though. The ones on the wavy lines I mostly helped her with.

Finished product. Next year's will be MUCH better!

The stained glass Nativity I made on December 20th. So much fun!

My Neice, Sierra and Savannah in front of the tree after Christmas Eve service at the United Church.

The loaded tree after Santa came!

Christmas morning. Miss messy hair and Miss I got up and showered and fixed my hair and makeup for pictures!

The Dora book she got from the Dayhome agency. She was really excited about it, but it sure doesn't show in this photo!

Megan with her newly repaired phone.

Auntie Amber, Uncle Ray (hiding), Sierra and Jackson, and Grampa (Papa) Gordon off to the side.

Denver with his new skateboard.

The Wii and all it's accessories were hiding under here.

No touchy, No peeking!

Santa got it from the "Oh, this is SO AWESOME!" section of the store! That was the best reaction ever, they kept saying it over and over!

Enjoying another look at Tinkerbell amid all the remains of gift opening!!! It was a fun day!

Discovery

Today Savannah saw a shadow from the ceiling light in our bedroom. She called it the sky! So I explained it was a shadow and then moved us to where we could make shadow puppets on the wall. She thought that was great! So now we have to say "Hi Shadow!, Bye Shadow!" It's fun to watch the cute things she is learning.