Pint Size Slide

When Kennedy was little we had lots of Little People toys (garage, town, farm, carnival). For some reason I saved them all when Kennedy outgrew them (at that point we weren't planning on having more kids). So, the other day I had Paul get them down from the attic and put them out for Nora to play with. She loved them! She especially liked the garage. She immediately climbed on top of it and was crawling around on it. I kept pulling her off but she would go right back and climb on top of it again. Then it hit me what she was doing. She thought the blue ramp part of the toy was a SLIDE! Too funny!

Fall in December

In case you didn't know, Fall is in December in Texas. It was about 60 degrees this weekend and there were leaves all over the front yard so Paul decided to rake them all up. The big girls love to rake leaves so they wanted to help. Nora loves to be outside so we all ended up out there together. It was a beautiful day and after about 10 lawn bags of leaves the yard looks great! (I'm sure next week it will be full of leaves again since the trees aren't completely done losing their leaves but oh well!)

Daddy's hat

Nora loves it when her daddy wears a hat. The other day she got ahold of the hat and put it on her head and was walking around looking through the hole in the back. It was so funny and you could tell that she knew she was being funny!

Gotta love a mall play place!

When I was a kid we got dragged around a mall and it was pretty much uneventful to say the least. Kids today have this fantastic spot to run and play and have a great time with other kids at the mall and it is the mall play place. Here are a few pics of Nora having fun at the Collin Creek mall play place and the Galleria play place.

Build-a-bear

Today we went to the mall to spend our gift cards that we got for Christmas. The girls all had a gift card to Build-a-bear so we went there and got new stuffed animals!

It was Nora's first time and she got a soft bunny that we call Runny Babbit after one of our favorite books. Nora did not want any clothes for her bunny but opted for a stroller. She had so much fun pushing her stroller around the store. When it was time to check out she would not let go of the stroller so I had to put her and the stroller on the checkout counter to pay.

Kennedy got a bear she named Ned and he got a robe and some slippers.

Hannah got a bear she named Gabriella and she got a sweater and some skinny jeans as her

outfit. Too cute!

Christmas Day

Christmas began very early this morning. Nora woke up at about 6:30 and when I got her back to sleep the big girls were downstairs holding their wrapped gifts from Santa. They begged to open them. I got a reluctant Paul out of bed and once we both had our coffee we opened the presents while Nora was sound asleep. She got to open hers a couple of hours later.

As soon as we were finished opening presents I had to prepare the turkey for Christmas lunch. This is the first year that I was solely in charge of this task. In years past I was either at mom's or she was here with me to do it. Well it turned out great. I even made homemade pan gravy after a phone call to mom for help. It was delicious.

Later that day the big girls and I went to the movies to see Alvin and the Chipmunks. That was the first time I have ever been to the movies on Christmas Day.

What a wonderful day!