Maggie helps make cookies
This pic was taken before Christmas. Maggie insisted on helping me make cookies that day. The funny part is, and you all can't see it here, is that she has adopted a fashion forward attitude of wearing a shirt and tights but no skirt or pants with the tights. I cannot convince her that she is to wear a skirt with the tights. She thinks tights are pants and that is the end of the story. On this particular day, she has on a coral colored top with leopard print tights. Lovely. And the fancy red and green headband holding back her hair. What am I going to do with her?
Santa came to our house!!
Santa arrived in full force and left several wonderful presents for us all. Check it out to see what he brought us!
How cool am I?
Walker got a gas powered quad and an awesome helmet for Christmas and was soooo excited. He's been practicing for over a week now and is getting quite good. He even got to go on a trail ride with Erik Wednesday over to the neighbor's farm to get some hay (hauled on Erik's quad, not Walker's). He's been very good at following the rules - he puts up his sign (it says STOP: Kids at play) at the end of the driveway in the middle so cars know that the children are playing outside - putting that sign up may become a general rule anyway for all of the children. Erik often directs people to just "stop by" so they can see goats or him about something - so with the play area so close to the driveway, I thought it would be a good idea to have something to caution folks that aren't aware of our play situation to slow down and watch for children. So, Walker puts up his sign and rides on the driveway. He's been slowly edging more and more into the grass - I'm afraid I won't have any grass this summer - I'll have a dirt track.
Maggie's baby doll
Maggie got this adorable baby doll from Santa. Santa enlisted the help of Corene at www.hullabaloobaby.com. I highly recommend the service and quality there! Maggie could have cared less that there were other presents under the tree - she played with Hallie May all morning and has been dragging her around ever since.
Fashionista
Maggie decked herself out Christmas morning in the Cinderella socks from Aunt Julia, her pink sparkle shoes, and her new baby doll, Hallie May.
Maggie smiles for me.
Can you see all the glitter lipgloss around her face. And her black tooth. Don't get me started on the black tooth. Erik says I'm too focused on it. He says not to photoshop it out though - it's part of her character now.
Crash
Poor Willie J is always crashing into things or hurting himself. It is just what happens as a toddler. He isn't quite aware of his own body in the world and crashes into things, trips and falls, and just in general isn't paying enough attention to his environment. As a result, he wound up with a few scratches and a bruise Christmas morning.
