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Holidays
Here comes the holidays, ready or not.
I’m not exactly sure where all my time goes. Last I knew it was Halloween and now Christmas is just days away. I have so many movies to watch and things I want to do, but I’m about out of time.
Thankfully I have all my Christmas shopping done. I did most of it online again this year, but I tried to buy stuff in stores. It just seems like so much work. Plus I went to Wal-Mart this year. It just amazes me how such a big and popular retailer can have the worst stores. Even the new ones are dirty and I feel like I’m going to catch something just walking down the aisles. The downside to online however is that my packages haven’t all arrived yet. Soon though.
Lily’s Christmas Performance
Lily’s daycare had a Christmas party for the families last week. We all got together, ate some food and then the kids performed Christmas songs for us.
It was fun seeing how much Lily likes daycare. She was running all around, wasn’t the least bit shy and just enjoyed herself the whole evening. Plus she gets to sing and dance so that’s always a win in her book.
FYI: Lily is the one in the lower right corner with the black dress with pink arms and legs.
Happy Halloween
We’re all having more fun for Halloween this year as Lily is 2. She has a better understating of what’s going on and has been practicing her Happy Halloween and Trick or Treat.
Costume Sneak Peek
This year she’ll be going as a pink cat. It’s a warmer costume which is nice but also has quite the big belly. Trying to get her into the car seat in it sure was a lot of work.
Cleaning Out Pumpkins
Lily also helped clean out some of the pumpkins this year. She wasn’t so sure about it, but eventually stuck her hand right in.
Halloween Arts & Crafts
Lily loves her arts and crafts. From crayons to paints she loves to put purple and pink on pretty much everything. Because of this we’ve started doing more with her and now are creating something new all the time.
For Halloween we created spiders and pumpkins out of paper plates, painted mini pumpkins, colored ghosts, created egg carton spiders, and even made banners. We’ve painted with cotton balls, our fingers and apples and then decorate with googlie eyes, stickers and construction paper.
Happy Easter!
Lily Counting Her Easter Eggs
Indoor Easter egg hunts are just as good as the ones outdoors. However we did both.
Finding Easter Eggs and Happiness
Last week Lily got an Easter basket from daycare and it was filled with all sorts of goodies. It was then that she realized how cool Easter eggs were.
We’ve since been practicing our Easter egg hunting skills. We hide them and she tracks them down.
She doesn’t just look for the obvious ones either. She’s getting down on the floor and looking under chairs and toss pillows. If they’re out there, she wants to find them.
To make it more interesting, not all eggs have treats in them either. We’ll put a teddy gram in a few and leave the rest empty. That way it’s even more exciting as some have treats in them!
Merry Christmas!
To all our family and friends, Merry Christmas!
I hope this holiday is special for you and your family and that you take a moment to be thankful for everyone in your life that makes it so great.
Easy Last Minute Christmas Gifts for Toddlers
Are you running out of time to get a gift for your toddler? If so, here are a few easy and fun ideas.
- A Cardboard Box – Lily loves the boxes that bring gifts in them more for the boxes than what’s inside.
- A Plastic Tub – You know, one of those storage tubs. Much like a cardboard box, it’s just fun to get in and out of. And this one won’t break as easy.
- Paper – Paper is great. You can use it to make noise, rip it into pieces and throw it all around.
Doing some Christmas baking.
Lily Helping
We’re doing some Christmas baking today and Lily is helping out.
That’s actually powdered sugar in the photo, not flower. And more than a little made it into her mouth; among all the other places that it ended up!
