Mom just sent our our Christmas cards. I think she took 100 different pictures of me before I was able to smile with my eyes open. Mom says I'm just like Dad. Eyes closed in almost every picture.
Here are some of the ones that didn't make it on our card.
Not spilling the hot chocolate in and of itself is worthy of celebrating.
Here I am with my two Chihuahua's! Mom and I were shopping in Michaels and found one just like Muffy!
I named him Papi.
This weekend I had my Sunday school Christmas pageant.
I was an angel. Check out my halo.
Daisy is taking a nap to try and stay up late to see Santa Claus.
That's all for now. There's still a little more to do before Christmas. Have a great week!
Hi there! Time to catch up from Thanksgiving. Mom, Dad, Daisy, and I all went to Ohio for Thanksgiving. It was so nice to spend time with our family. Here I am making cinnamon Christmas ornaments with Grandma.
We also went to see The Nutcracker with Megan, Aunt Robin, and Uncle Ned.
I really like the story of the Nutcracker.
It was wonderful to see it performed as a ballet with all the talented, graceful dancers.
I also spent some time with dad's family. We had Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's house with my cousins, Aunt Maresa, Uncle Casey, and Uncle Mike.
Liam, Grayson , and I stole Grandpa's chair.
Later on that week we visited Liam and Grayson at their house. We had a great time together and enjoyed a big, delicious Italian feast prepared by Aunt Maresa and Uncle Casey.
After a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with both Mom and Dad's family we headed back home. I helped Mom decorate our Christmas tree.
But we came back to Ohio the very next week for a Christmas party! Here I am with my Great Grandma!
There was lots of food to share and everyone had a really good time. I played with Ava, Kyla, and Kenna, and we had soooooo much fun together!
Mom and Dad caught up with family and shared lots of laughs.
Christmas is coming and I am really excited. I hope you are too. See you next week!
Mom helped me find the perfect costume. I love birds, and it was a lot of fun to pretend I was one for Halloween.
My neighbor Elliott and I trick or treated together. He went as a World War I fighter pilot.
Mom went with me and Dad stayed home to pass out candy.
You can tell he was really excited this year.
In other news I took a very special trip. I went to Hawaii!!!!
Dad has been saving his frequent flyer miles for almost 10 years. So, when he was sent to Hawaii for work, Mom and I decided to go too. We flew on three planes for over ten hours to get there. Dad met us at the airport with a lei for me and Mom.
This is a picture from our hotel room. We stayed right on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu.
You could see the Pacific Ocean from our room.
And, there were lots of palm trees with green coconuts. Hawaii was so beautiful!
Dad had to work most of the time he was there. But we did have a day to have some fun together as a family. We all went to Waikiki Beach!
It was my very first time at an ocean beach, and I was so excited! A nice girl who was flying home that day gave me her boogie board.
I wasn't afraid of the ocean at all. In fact, I jumped right in! I was full of giggles and squeals because I just loved every minute of it.
Here I am playing in the waves, the first time my toes ever touched ocean waves.
Later that night we went to a real Hawaiian luau!
There were lots of fun activities to do there like lei making (my favorite), playing traditional Hawaiian games, and riding an out-rigger canoe.
Mom and I made leis with pretty flowers.
I also met some of Dad's friends from work and their kids. We picked up seashells on the beach together. I really loved collecting shells, and I brought home a whole bag of them. I even found two tiny sand dollars, which are quite a treasure to me.
The next day, Mom and I went on a submarine ride.
We saw a sunken ship, sea turtles, a crashed airplane, and lots of interesting fish. I took about a million pictures! Here are just a couple.
Mom and I had a great time together.
We had fun adventures together all week long, and the weather was absolutely gorgeous.
Every morning there were beautiful rainbows right outside our hotel window.
Sometimes you could even see where the rainbows started in the mountains and ended in the ocean!
Mom and I also went to Sea Life Park for a dolphin encounter. We took a bus there and saw some of the most beautiful parts of Hawaii along the way.
Once we arrived at Sea Life Park we saw penguins, sea turtles and sea lions!
Then it was time to meet the dolphins.
I wasn't sure what to expect.
But, I knew everything would be just fine with Mom there.
I got to meet a dolphin named Itsy Bitsy!
She was really friendly. We danced together.
And I even gave her a kiss.
Mom got a smackeroo on the cheek too!
Mom and I spent every day at the beach together. We had so much fun together. Here I am catching some waves on my boogie board.
It took a little practice, but I got the hang of it.
I really enjoyed swimming in the ocean.
Those swimming lessons this summer were a good idea. I was quite the little fish once I got used to how the ocean worked. Mom was proud how I tackled those waves. I just dove right through them. FUN!!!
Before I knew it, it was time to go home. Mom, Dad, and I went out for one last Hawaiian dinner.
We had a great time together!
Hope everyone out there has a very happy Thanksgiving!! Aloha!
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Hi there everybody! It's that time of year again! Last weekend was the Pumpkin show!
I was really excited to go to the Pumpkin Show. Now that I'm in kindergarten I don't get to go for the whole week. Mom and Dad picked me up from school on Friday and we headed to Ohio.
I was really glad the traffic wasn't bad and we made it to Ohio in record time. I met Megan and Maezhen at the Pumpkin Show that afternoon.
My Great Aunt Janet, and Great Uncle Larry, and my second cousin Mary Pat were there too!
We all had a great time.
The next day, Grandma and Grandpa brought Liam and Grayson to the Pumpkin Show.
We rode the Dragon roller coaster together.
Later on that day Grandma and Grandpa came down to the Pumpkin Show with Uncle Ned.
We rode some rides and had dinner together.
Everyone had a great time.
I was sad that the Pumpkin Show was over but I am looking forward to it next year. In the meantime, I've been getting ready for Halloween.
Hi there everybody! Sorry it has been a little while since my last blog. It seems like someone hit the fast forward button on life. Now that school has started there is always so much to do.
The big news that I want to share with everyone is we celebrated Grandpa's 70th birthday!
Grandma threw Grandpa a surprise party!
Everyone had a great time. It was fun to celebrate Grandpa's birthday together.
Guess who else had a birthday? Dad!
Dad celebrated his 38th birthday! I helped Mom bake his cake and frost it too!
Something else I should mention is that my school had an outdoor movie.
It was lots of fun. We sat with Elliott and his mom.
I even played a little football with the other kids.
Last month, I also went to the zoo for Macy's elephant day.
I really like the elephants at the zoo.
And finally, here's a movie clip from my birthday.
Who doesn't like to pet a goat? See you guys next week!
