Easter 2012

I love my sister and she loves me, we get along pretty well most of the time. Belle is my little shadow, literally. She follows me everwhere I go. When she wakes in the morning, the first thing she says (after gathering her pacis) is "where's hallie?" When I go pottey, belle 'goes potty'. When drag a chair to the kitchen island to help cook dinner, another chair is being drug right behind me. When I start making crazy loud weird noises in the car on car trips, I have a back-up singer. So the theme of our sisterhood lately is "monkey see, monkey do." Here is a prime example of my theory: I turned my easter egg basket into a hat, and you know what followed :)

We got to Louis's house around 8 but Grana didn't show up until 10. We were so excited when Grana, Grandad, Aunt Steph and Uncle Blake showed up, let the holiday weekend begin!

Bubbles and easter egg hunts. Doesn't get much better than this!!!

We LOVE love playing outside. What a fun backyard Louis has!

The best before Easter Mass shot we could get. You know the drill, 1st one Annabelle is crying, 2nd one I am looking away, 3rd one (this one) we had to settle for Annabelle having that silly paci in her mouth. Oh well!

Hallie-isms and Favorites

Recent Hallie-isms:

Me: "Hallie, we better hurry home, I really really have to potty!"
Hallie: "Mommy, thats ok, you're sitting down."
Me: "Yes, I'm sitting down, so what?"
Hallie: " When you have to go potty and you are sitting down, you do this (hallie wiggles a lot in her seat) wiggle wiggle and your tee tee goes away!"


Me: "Hallie, you can't have your animal crackers back becuase I gave them to Annabelle and she ate them, they are in her tummy."
Hallie: "Thats ok mommy, I can put on my bathing suit and go in her mouth and get them back!"
Me: thought: where in the world did that idea come from???

Current Favorites       Hallie                                     Annabelle
Book:                           fancy nancy                            i am a bunny
Snack:                teddy bears and yogurt              yogurt pretzels
Song:                             ABC's                         happy and you know it
Animal:                         giraffe                                       dinosaur
Toy:                               puzzles                           baby doll and stoller
Show:                            olivia                                        umizoomi
Art Project:                  paint                                       play dough
At the Park:               play chase                                     swing

Spring Break!

Tickle Bugs. This is a collage of Annabelle and I playing tickle bugs with daddy! Its our favorite thing to do with daddy :) We lay out all the knitted squares (we have 8 of them!) and pull them up one at a time to see if the tickle bug is hiding underneath. If so, daddy tickles us ruthlessly until we can't laugh anymore! Lay out squares, pull up one by one and repeat until daddy is tired :)

Eating PB&J and pudding at Grana's. Clean child vs. messy child. I, of course, am the clean angel child!

Playing Yahtzee with Grana. Out favorite part was shaking up the dice and spilling them out!

Mommy and Daddy headed to church without us! How dare they! Thats ok, we had fun with Grana and Grandad without you guys!

Sheet movie time! Grandad sets up a sheet, a projector, and we provide the movie. Tonight we veiwed Lion King in style! Thats me up dancing because my attention span is 5 seconds :)

We did lots of fun things in Dallas over spring break! Some include a carousel ride at grapevine mills, snacking on popcorn on the back porch, breakfast at the local diner, a trip to the zoo with eleanor, basketball and cone bowling with blake, bubbles and feeding the ducks at the duck pond!

Playing dress up at home! Don't I look like a little june cleaver vacumming in my pearls!

I am THREE!

Today I turned 3 years old! I actually thought that when a person's birthday comes, they "grow up" on their birthday. I even said to my mommy when she told me my birthday was coming up, "but I don't want to grow up, it will hurt!" So, my birthday came and went and I didn't grow up. I was under the impression that I would get as tall as my mommy and become a "big girl" but I'm glad that was not the reality! Instead of experiencing "growing pains" I got a new playset, tons of friends and family, a hot pink cake, and more presents than I can count! I am so thankful for having such a loving family and a great group of friend to help me celebrate. Here is a glimpse of the fun:

New Playset

The Spread

 Cake Pops!

 Hot Pink "three" Cake!

 Homemade Party Hats

Blowing out the Candles! 

Lots of Fun! 

Party Favors (a magnetic chalkboard with number magnents!(stole the cute idea))



Christmas In Conroe

This Christmas, mommy and daddy told me all about Santa. They also told me all about Baby Jesus and how Santa brings presents on Christmas to celebrate Baby Jesus's birthday. My favorite Christmas movie this year was Polar Express! I probably watched it 20 times over the course of the season! This prompted me to want to drink a lot of hot chocolate and to ask for a bell and a train for Christmas! Luckily, I was a pretty good girl this year and Santa brought exactly what I asked for, thanks Santa! It was so fun putting out the food for the reindeer and cookies and milk for Santa. When I woke up on Christmas morning, there was a train set up and ready to play with. But I was actually more interested in checking to see if the reindeer ate the food I left! So I got bundled up to go outside with Gramps to check. Sure enough the reindeer like my concoction of granola and glitter I left for them!

I don't really understand the concept of next Christmas being a year away so I figure I better be on my best behavior all the time. The other day, Annabelle was acting up (surprise surprise) and I said "Annabelle, you betta be good or else Santa not gunna bring you no more more presents!" Thats right, I look out for my sister :)

Here we are all dressed up in Santa Hats! 

All the girls, dressed up for mass! We won't talk about what happened at Christmas mass. Lets just say we didn't make it to the end and Mommy and Daddy weren't too happy...

We love our Grandma and Gramps!

Mommy, Me, Aunt Tisty, and BelleBelle

The whole gang! Good picture Great-Grandma! Congratulations on your engagement Aunt Tisty and Ian!!!

Me on Christmas morning, thank you Santa!

Checking out our new choo choo train set.

Gramps being goofy :)

Want some hot chocolate mom?

Getting Ready for Christmas

Oh my goodness, I am in a dreamland. I don't know how I missed all of this last year but Christmas is the best. thing. ever. How could you not love Christmas trees, hot chocolate, presents, christmas movies, decorating, sugar cookies, grandparents, santa, lights, more presents, parties, dressing up... I could go on forever! Some of the things that have been most special to me this season are: moving the angel on our advent calendar each day, saying prayers and then opening the doors to the other advent calendar with daddy each night, hearing the story of baby Jesus before going to bed, and watching the polar express. I LOVE that movie. I have seen it almost once a day since the christmas season began and now all I want for Christmas is a train set! Good thing Santa knows what he's doing. Here are many many pictures to give you a glimpse into our special Christmas season celebrations.

Decorating our mini-silver-and-pink Christmas tree from Aunt Cat!

A quick family Christmas Pic before heading to KHA Christmas party.

All dressed up!

Christmas Cuties

Mommy's Favorite Color!

More Christmas dresses from Aunt Cat, we are ready to party!

 Before the Tanton Christmas Party.

Decorating Sugar Cookies at Anna Grace's House

We climbed up to the top of the fort all by ourselves! yikes!

Early Christmas in Dallas.

Yay, we got a family picture after Mass!

Adventure at the Gaylord.

Exchanging presents with Eleanor.

 Locked on the Polar Express.

Halloween

I love Halloween! It is my new favorite holiday! Lets not discuss the fact that these days every holiday is my new favorite holiday! This year I am able to understand and enjoy them so much more. What I love about Halloween: the goodies that Aunt Cat brought including the witch and pumpkin pez dispensers (my first experience with pez!), the adorable halloween outfits, the wooden witch masks with paint, the glow sticks, the fancy nancy halloween book and more! I also loved watching the bubble guppies halloween episode, I think my count is up to about 12 times that I have seen it, I have practically memorized every word! I also loved having friends over and then going trick or treating. I ran so fast to each house that mommy couldn't even snap a good picture! Annabelle got really into it as well. She wanted to keep up with the big kids and kept squealing in excitement! Every night since Halloween we have gotten to eat one piece of candy after dinner but tonight I noticed that our monogrammed pumpkin treat bags were gone and I could have sworn there was lots of candy left in them. I'll have to have a talk with mommy about that, but until then enjoy the few pictures we were able to get!