Merry Christmas!

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

There It Is

We've been waiting to get Baby to smile for the camera and he finally did. (Also, Mama told me that he is in the 97th percentile for height and 82nd percentile for weight. What a big guy!)

My Own Christmas Tree

I made a very long Fruitloop garland to decorate my own Christmas tree.

Gumdrop Snowmen

I made these gumdrop snowmen with gumdrops, licorice, life savers, and toothpicks. Yum!

Christmas Wreath

I got to get very messy when I made this Christmas wreath. Mama mixed together Shredded Wheat, glue, and green food coloring and I shaped it into a wreath. Oh what fun...

Gingerbread Cookies

Today Mama and I made and decorated gingerbread cookies. We are trying to do at least one Christmas activity everyday before December 25th.

Play Time with Baby

I always have a great time playing with my baby brother and I think he has a great time too.

Secret Drawings

One of my favorite things to do is something I like to call "secret drawings". Mama draws a picture onto a white piece of paper using a white crayon. I can't see the drawing until I paint over it with watercolors. It's so much fun to discover what Mama has drawn.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mama and I used a pumpkin we still had from Halloween to make this pumpkin turkey. We colored paper feathers and I cut out most of the feathers all by myself. Then we taped each feather to a wooden skewer and stuck them in the pumpkin. Happy Turkey Day!

Play Dough

It's been a while since I've played with Play-Doh so I played with it for a very long time today. I even made Mickey Mouse all by myself.

My Sweet Baby Brother

I'm so happy to have a baby brother. I'm a big helper too. When Baby cries I get his binky and I make sure to check on him a lot when he is sleeping.

Happy Halloween!

I've always loved Max from Where the Wild Things Are...even before the movie came out. So that's what I wanted to be for Halloween. During the day I was a skeleton with my baby brother and when I went to trick-or-treat I put on my Max costume.

Detective Work

After mama wrote and hid clues that led to a special prize, Bampa and I set out to work with our detective gear. The clues led me all around the house and after a lot of hard detective work we ended up at the bathtub where my prize, a toy shaving kit, was waiting for me.

Welcome Home Baby!

After my baby brother spent 11 days in the NICU, I finally got to see him. What an exciting day! I love my baby brother.

Rain, Rain

We've had all sorts of different weather around here lately. We still try to get outside everyday because in a month or two it will be just too cold.

Kite Flying

This weekend was a special kite-flying weekend in our town. To celebrate I made a kite at our library in an art class and later that day I flew my kite with a Veteran of War. When it was time to go I got a little American flag and a certificate for flying my kite.

Piñata Birthday

For my third birthday party I asked for a piñata as well as a piñata cake. This is what my mama and I came up with…

The inside of each cupcake was a colorful surprise just like the surprises inside a real piñata!

Guess Who? Cut-Paper Art

It’s me! My mama made this cut-paper art when I was 18 months old. Finally, a year and a half later, she finished them, framed them and hung them on the wall in my very own room.

Mama did cheat a little bit to get these looking just right. She chose a couple of simple photographs of me, enlarged them, and printed them. Then she traced just the very basic lines of the photo onto colored cardstock, cut out the simple shapes that were traced, and put them together like a puzzle.

Ladybug Toenails

Summer is ending, but mama and I thought we'd paint our toenails one last time.

First we painted my toes red and then we drew on black dots with a permanent marker. It was a lot easier than making black nail-polish dots with a pinhead...especially since I have a hard time waiting for nail polish to dry.