Happy New Year!!!!

I can't belive 2008 is done!!!! What a great year. We're looking forward to an even better 2009!!!!!

Grandma's Birthday

Well I'm a little late in posting but here it is. Grandma turned 99 years old on December 19. We had a quiet but I hope special celebration for her. We went out for dinner then back home for cake and presents. Here is our evening.

(It's as if Mikayla ate too much LOL I love the expression on her face) Grandma had a good helper!

(dancing for our dinner party aka Grandma's birthday party)

What a special Christmas

We had a very special time. Mikayla didn't quite know what to think about Santa but she knows that he came and brought her a bunch of really neat stuff :) To pick her favorites she absolutely loves her "Mini Market", doctor set, boots, her crafty stuff, paint/marker set, and the spill the beans game, she loves the beans so much that she put them in her purse to bring with her everywhere she goes.

We met Santa!!!

Mikayla only hesitated for a moment before running into his arms.

The other day we chatting before going to bed and I was asking her if she wanted to go see Santa, she said yes.... here is our conversation:

Me: Will you sit on his lap

M: yes

Me: I told her this is what he will say to you (in a deep santa voice) Hello there little girl, what would you like for Christmas this year? Ho ho ho

M: (after laughing hysterically for a minute) she composed herself she said, I would like a blue candy cane.... No wait...... two blue candy canes.... and a lolipop

Me: (laughing) is that all you want?

M: um.... yes, that's it

The next night we were practicing again and she still wants 2 blue candy canes... and she told me that one is for her and the other for me, she was so sweet it made me cry that she was asking for something that was important to her, she wanted 2 so I could have one too... then she asked for the blue lollipop and then a red candy cane for her daddy.

We really had a good time meeting Santa though, she is still on cloud nine!!

Of course it's not complete without Grandma having a visit too. Santa asked her if she would like to sit on his lap too and she said "ohhhh no" it was sooo funny.

Teacher Tins :)

I made five of these adorable tins for Mikayla's teachers at school and for her swimming teacher too. This was a really fun project to do, they started out as plain red buckets.

3 Year Reflections

Here are some of Mikayla's latest things. I was taking a moment to reflect on how far she's come.

She is really getting into the whole Santa thing, I tell her that Santa brings good girls presents but not bad girls (bribing for behavior modification… whatever works, right) so now in the middle of whatever she’s doing (that she’s not supposed to be doing) she says “and I’m a good girl too”…… then bursts into tears

She still absolutely loves playing dress up.

She has to bring a baby everywhere we go, it’s much more then it used to be because they have become real to her.

She loves to play teacher, she even makes us all line up and she walks backwards (guess her teacher does that) and says “line up everybody”…..

She absolutely loves putting people, babies, the dogs, her animals, anything and everything in time out. Most often for hitting, meaning, they hit her.

Oh she loves to have her fingernails and toenails painted.

She is sooo sweet when I ask her whose birthday Christmas is… she says it’s Baby Jesus’ birthday.

She loves shower time and now after all the cleaning business is tended to, I close the door for her and she loves her shower time for singing or bossing whatever imaginary friend is in there with her at the moment.

Right now her favorite movie is Tinker Bell, we watch it EVERY day.

She loves to help cook dinner and bake.

She is very crafty and loves stamping and cutting paper.

She loves to talk on the phone.

Her vocabulary is amazing, she really understands everything.

WE GOT SNOW!!!!

I can't believe it. It was too late to go play in it though (Mikayla had wet hair, we have no hat, no gloves, no boots, or even shoes that she can wear socks with, so essentially no winter wear) so we went ahead and brought the snow in to her. She got two snow balls and was holding them and sort of playing with them until her hands got cold then we gave her a container to hold her snow ball in it... then she ate it!!!

She was soooooo excited she was quivering and doing her little girl scream!!! What a fun way to end the day.