We wish you a merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, blogfans! I gut up all aquiver with excitement at 6:30 this morning to go see if Santa had come. He had! At least, that's not what our tree and stockings looked like last night...

I paid pretty much no attention to that huge lump of wrapping paper to the left of the tree, but was fascinated with my stocking stuffers, from barrettes and headbands to M&Ms and slinkys.

Eventually though I discovered that big oddly shaped (and oddly wrapped thing) and discovered not only that it was for me but that it was also a real big-girl bicycle! I was so excited I climbed on before the paper was even off of it.

But then later I opened a few of the necessary accoutrements, such as streamers and a helmet (oh, and my ballet clothes, because everyone rides bikes dressed as ballerinas, don't they?), and got a better pose on the bike.

Pretty cool, huh? Unfortunately it rained all day so we didn't get a chance to try it out except in the living room, but I bet it'll be tons of fun. How were your Christmases, blog fans?

My Christmas Pageant

This year I got to participate in the Christmas Pageant at church. I was a lamb. (Or a sheep, I've been called both.)

Aren't I cute?

My main job was to lead the procession to the altar, so I practiced that, back and forth:

I also got to sing Away in a Manger, and I did wonderfully. Mami and Daddy and Grandma and Granddaddy were very proud of me!

A special visit

Today was a special day for me. I got to go to Daddy's Rotary Club with him. Not just that, but guess who was there? SANTA! I was so excited to see him I ran up and gave him a great big hug.

I also told him all about what a, ehem, good girl I've been all year long. I think he believed me!

He promised he would come visit me in a couple days...

After that Daddy took me to a park near his office, which I thought was very fun. My second park trip in two days - isn't vacation great?!?

The Great Christmas Performance

Today was our holiday concert at school. Here we are singing our two songs: Away in a Manger and Jingle Bells.


What do you think?

My first gingerbread house

At school this week we made gingerbread houses out of graham crackers. Here's mine:

It didn't last very long though!

Yummy...

Dance recital

Last week we had our dance recital in Ms. Amy's dance class. I showed off my moves for the crowd.

Check out the air on this one - good photography Daddy!

I've told Santa that I really hope he brings me some new dance clothes, since mine are getting way too small. Do you think he will?

Christmas cheer

A Christmas dance for you to enjoy

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The best Christmas tree ever

We went on a quest yesterday to find the perfect Christmas tree. It was cold and rainy, but there were a lot of pretty trees out at Pam's lot.

I looked and looked and finally found the greatest tree ever.

We brought it home and then started decorating it this afternoon.

Daddy hung the high ornaments because he's so tall.

And this is the final product. What do you think?

We're getting so excited for Christmas around here!

Our trip to D.C.

As you know if you've seen Lela's blog, we all went up to Washington D.C. for Thanksgiving. It was cold there, we needed hats and jackets and everything!

We did a lot of fun stuff. Here are some of my favorite pictures of the weekend, in no particular order.

One day we went to the zoo. We saw all kinds of cool animals, like pandas, elephants, lions, tigers prarie dogs... and the orangutans came out to see us too.


My Aunt Melissa is my godmother, and I always call her my Fairy Godmother. So when we saw this store we had to take a picture in front of it!

We also went to see the Capitol, which is right near cousin Reeny's house.

And since Daddy says I'm going to be a lawyer one day (I like arguing with him), we took a picture of me in front of the Supreme Court too.

All this patriotic stuff got me going, and I proudly showed everyone that I've learned the Pledge of Allegiance, too.

I hope we can go back to D.C. soon!

Class photos

At my school this year the class photos they took had a "treasures in the attic" theme. Mami and Daddy weren't too sure about that, but some of the pictures came out really cute.
Here I am playing the violin. Sure, it's a prop, but did you know my Mami and my Aunt Melissa play the violin too?



I got to take pictures with my sister Lela, too. We had a great time posing together.


Well, now you all know what you're getting in your stockings this Christmas. :)

Saturday fun

We haven't been posting much because there hasn't been that much going on. Today was a Saturday like any other, but if you want to see what we did, here are some pictures.
We played with playdoh in the morning. (Mami and Daddy quickly regretted not covering the rug...)

Lela and I played dress-up (see how much Lela's got on? And see how little I've got on, maybe "dress down" is more appropriate for me!) and then pretended it was naptime.

We all went on a nature walk and had a picnic at the park. I played on the slide, up and down and up and down.

And we took a family picture to end the day right.

See, nothing that exciting, but we enjoyed it nonetheless.

Happy Halloween!

We got to celebrate Halloween twice this year!

Friday was a fall festival at my school, and we were allowed to wear our costumes.
Here's what I was: Cinderella!

Lela dressed up as a bumble bee for about 3 and 1/2 minutes.

She looked adorable but hated her costume so went to school in regular clothes.

Then yesterday, for Halloween, we went trick or treating at Publix, where they had a whole treasure map set up and different stations with fun games and treats.

I was Cinderella again.

Lela refused the bumble bee costume, so Mami improvised a sort of cat costume for her.

(The overall effect is lessened by: a) her insistence on wearing the gator shirt; b) her refusal to take her pacifier out of her mouth without screaming and quite frankly it was a battle I didn't want to fight); and c) her hatred of all hair accoutrement, thus the ears attached to a cap. Sigh.)
But we had a great time at Publix, and everyone said how cute we were. I kept telling people that they were giving me "just too much" candy, and I haven't even eaten a single piece of it yet. I think I liked the idea of getting stuff from people more than I cared about what I was getting!)

And then we got to go out to dinner because Mami wanted to watch the rest of the Florida-Georgia game. (The Gators won. Again.) Lela and I took the chance to check out our loot.

Overall a great holiday, I'd say!