Christmas 2009

A couple of things I learned during Christmas this year:

1. When you ask your daughter what she wants from Santa and she says 'a blue baby doll'...that is really ALL she wants. Seriously, I think Santa could've just brought the baby doll and she wouldn't have missed the rest. Santa is pretty happy that the kitchen is starting to get more use, though.

2. The zhu-zhu craze is somewhat substantiated. Mr. Squiggles and Num-Nums invoked many laughs and giggles out of this little girl on Christmas morning. I didn't get the whole thing at first (a hamster, really?) but they are pretty cute and fun.

And, of course, I can't post without a couple of Christmas morning pics:

The calm before the storm

The storm...

Happy Holidays

We've been pretty busy this holiday season. Pictures of all of our fun are below:

Making cookies (for Santa, of course)

Testing out our new snowboots (for the 10 inches of snow we finally got in Richmond)

Venturing out into the snow. This was as close as she would get after falling (ungloved) hands first in the snow...

Hanging with our best bud from daycare...

Enjoying my first starbucks hot 'vanilla'...

Trimming the tree...

Turning Two

So I may have a little 'mommy' guilt that Sofia didn't have a real first birthday party AND she's always going to have a birthday that sort of coincides with Thanksgiving...but for whatever reason I decided to do the 'real' birthday party this year at a place nearby called Cartwheels & Coffee and I am SO glad I did...the place is GREAT (highly recommend it). As you can see, Sofia enjoyed it as well :) She got to see her cousin Henry and her best bud from daycare, Archer. As well as all of her 'girls'.

All dressed up and ready for the party (and playing with the cool cash register mommy and daddy got me for my b'day)

Playing basketball with our party host, Taylor, and Stella...

Hangin' with Cousin Henry

Do you think she's having fun?

Papa Beach's big present!!! (my pink 'tractor')