Christmas

Christmas morning was funny this year.  Malaya woke up and said, "Do you think Santa came?"  Then she got in our bed and watched TV for about 1/2 hour.  Finally we said she should look under the tree and the morning got started.

Malaya's Concert

Last year, Malaya didn't sing a single word during her concert. This year, she did great!!

Captain Underpants to the Rescue

One night Jolie came out of her room wearing underwear over her pajamas. I called her Captain Underpants and that was the beginning of the end! Jolie and Malaya ran around hysterically laughing, so we decided to make a "movie". You'll notice that Jolie is showing off her super-power muscles in one picture.

This was our photo session before we went to sit on Santa's lap.

We started the day at a tree farm. We were determined to find a tree to chop down. We walked around the whole farm and couldn't find a tree larger than about 5 feet. I was disappointed, but the girls didn't seem to mind. They had a great time riding the tree wagon and playing. We ended up choosing a pre-cut tree and heading home. Later in the day, the girls decided that they wanted to swim. So, they put on bathing suits and begged us to blow up the swimming pool. We settled on swimming in the bathtub instead.

Recent Pictures

I came home one day to find Jolie in an outfit I didn't put her in and pigtails.  Apparently, she said, "I want to only wear tights and I want pigtails."  It seems to me that her big sister has rubbed off on her a bit!






I gave the girls some leftover pasta to eat.  While I was making the rest of dinner, Jolie decided that the floor would make a good plate.  Malaya thought it was fun to play with, but no way she was eating anything off of the floor.  Just watching Jolie do it is enough to make her sick.  Hmmm, I wonder where she gets her "germ-a-phobe" from?  Could it possibly be from the millions of times I made her wash her hands when she was little?



Hmmm, looks like someone is quitting the band.

Halloween

Snow on Oct. 30th!!!!

The girls had a blast playing in the snow and didn't even notice that their snow pants were way too small....size 12 months and 2T...yikes!

Malaya had her first day of school after Labor Day. This year she is going 3 days a week in the afternoon. This works out well because Jolie is napping at that time, so they don't miss each other. She loves school and I've noticed that her artwork is getting more advanced. She still doesn't care much about letters and numbers. I'm hoping that will change soon.

We took a trip to Cherry Crest Farm in Lancaster. They are open on limited days and I was determined to go on this Saturday. We spent the morning trudging through the farm in the rain (and of course the afternoon was sunny and dry, but we were at home by then). The farm has a ton of things to do and is a lot of fun. We only saw about 1/2 of the farm, but lucky for us we got rain passes. We will be able to spend another day at the farm in a few weeks.