Bowling

Bowling is a team effort here at our house. We don't exactly follow the standard rules but we have a good time playing!

10 in the bed

Emma is honing her acting skills. Here she is reenacting a classic... Ten in the Bed.

too much snow

Walking in snow is not easy, especially for Emma. Her boots are a little too big and she's a little too small! She held her own though. Kaelen is a snow champion!

Sledding was an adventure! Steve and Tara took Kaelen and Emma to a hill and, as the story goes, the first couple of runs (seen here) were awesome... then, a fall off the sled and a stuck foot and the fun was gone. Oh well, maybe we'll try again next year!

Christmas Morning!

When I asked Emma whether Santa came to her house on Christmas Eve, she looked out the window and said she didn't see the reindeer so she thought he didn't come yet. I guess the finer points of the Santa myth are still up for interpretation.

We point out her stocking to her and Christmas gets going.

We find there is no end to the stocking fun. Emma didn't notice all the toys that Santa brought.

She finally noticed that there were more presents!

The best gift that Santa brought was the Ladybug Girl outfit!! She changes into the outfit many times a day!

Dancing!

Can you point your fingers and do the twist? Emma does an interpretive dance to this song but does pay attention to the key moves!

She's also been practicing the Mr. Knickerbocker dance. She is much better at it than in the earlier post on this site.

Finally, we see Ryan's dance moves... though Emma doesn't give him much space to work with as she literally dances circles around him! I think he needed some better music to really get going. Emma is doing her irish jig, which, of course, she learned from the Wiggles.

The Great Wiggle Debate

You better know who your favorite Wiggle is if you want to talk to Emma. She is very clear about her favorite(s)! Kaelen found this out while they were riding together to on the way to gymnastics.

Holiday Shopping

So, I thought it would be a good idea to let Emma look through catalogs to help figure out what she really wanted for Christmas. This idea was not one of my better ones, as you can see. Whenever there was any magazine around, she would grab it and point to a random thing and say, " hey, look at this!" She was very funny about it and I happened to catch this one on video.