Christmas with Parin (Uncle Donald) & Aunt Barbara

Parin and Aunt Barbara are going to be out of town on Christmas, so Monday night they came over to Paw-Paw's and Grangie's house to celbrate with us a little early.  And they brought us some presents!  Needless to say, I can hold my own in the present-opening, and need no assistance!

It may have taken me a little longer, but I got my gifts opened!  I love my Little People pink car!  Now I have my own car to play with and don't have to just use Bubby's!

They gave me a new garbage truck!  I don't know how she does it, but Aunt Barbara always seems to find a garbage truck that I don't have yet -- and that's pretty hard because I have a LOT!

We love you Aunt Barbara and Parin!!!

Our Christmas Lights

Last weekend we were roaming around the house in our cute Santa hats saying "Ho! Ho! Ho!"  (times ten!) Adorable, of course!  Then I decided I wanted to go outside and see our decorations.  So Mommy grabbed her camera and we all headed out.  She caught a few cute moments!  And yes, I'm walking while holding Bubby's hand!

Our Visit with Aunt Leslie

Aunt Leslie, my Godmother, lives in Houston, so we don't get to see her nearly as often as we wish.  But last weekend she and Uncle Aaron were in the Houma area to celebrate the holidays with their families.  So we made plans to get together with them!  Saturday evening, we drove to Thibodaux to have dinner with them.  We were so excited to see each other! 

Aunt Leslie loves making silly faces for the camera!

She gave me a Christmas gift.  When I opened it, it was a piece of paper with lots of pictures of basketballs and basketball goals.  Then Aunt Leslie told me that she had one for me in a big box in her car.  I was SOOO excited!  So after we ate our dinner, Uncle Aaron carried the box to our van.  We had to lay the seat down to fit it inside!  I couldn't wait to get home!

Daddy put it together for me that night, and I played for a little while.  But after church Sunday, we brought it out on our deck in the backyard so I got to play a lot!  I just love it so much!

My Play-n-Pray Christmas Party

That's right, Madeline here.  This post is just about me!  Last Friday was my Play-n-Pray Christmas party at church!  Mommy gave Bubby the option of coming, too, so he could see his friends.  But he told her he's "too big for those children" and just wanted to go to his school.  He also told her, "If I don't go to school, I won't know what to do for our Christmas program next week!"  (More about that in a later post.)  

So after we dropped Bubby off at school, Mommy took me to the party.  I got to spend a lot of time hanging out with my best girlfriend, Agnes Mae.  We shared puffs and goldfish!  I saw my other friends too, but Mommy wasn't very snap-happy with the camera.  Well, I'll admit, I can be quite the handful sometimes.  And... well... it may have something to do with me constantly trying to squeeze any Capri Sun I could get my hands around!  Oh, the joys of an almost completely mobile toddler!  

What, did I say mobile?  That's right - for about a week now I've been taking a few steps at a time completely unassisted.  Yep, lookout world!

Santa came to my school! (+ Santa Visit #4)

Boy, if the number of times you get to visit Santa Claus in the month of December means anything, it must mean I'm getting all kinds of presents for Christmas!  This was my fourth visit to see the man in red.  He came to visit my school last week.  Of course Mommy didn't want me to be the only kid not to see Santa, so she wrote the check for the pictures and tucked it into my folder.  And when she was the picture yesterday, she was glad she did it.  It's a great picture! 

(And you'll notice I'm in a different shirt.  I'd already taken three pictures with Santa in the two Christmas shirts Grangie had already made me.  Mommy wanted to change it up.  I got to look at all the pictures and pick what I wanted -- Curious George in a Christmas hat!  So thanks for my new shirt, Grangie!!)



Welcome Sprinkles!

After church lasat Sunday, instead of heading to Starbucks or CC's as we usually do, we drove to Grangie's and Paw-Paw's house.  I was okay with that - I love going to their house.  But when we walked in, there was a surprise!  The table was all set with Christmas things, and there was an elf book.  And then we saw the ELF hanging from the chandelier!  There's an elf for their house, too!  And just like at my house, he surprised us with breakfast of donut holes and little presents!

Even though he knew it was the same store, Bubby insisted that Grangie read the book to us again.  So she read, and we at our yummy donut holes!

Then we got to open our boxes at our places.  We each got Christmas story books.  I got some lip gloss!  (Maybe I'll stop trying to eat use Mommy's now!)  I also got a giant penguin bouncy balloon!

We decided to name this elf Spinkles.  He's going to watch us when we're at Grangie's and Paw-Paw's house, since we're there almost every day.  I guess our Evan just needs a little help.  Freckles brought me a Santa bouncy balloon and some Cars bubbles and a Christmas activity book.  I love looking for Freckles every day after school now!

Grangie's & Paw-Paw's Tree Decorating

After decorating our tree at our house, I kept begging Grangie and Paw-Paw to put up their tree.  Finally they did it, and of course I had to go over and help them!  We brought Madeline, too.

I really didn't help much.  Grangie just held me so I could see.  It's probably best that way though.  Paw-Paw put William up on his shoulders to reach the parts up higher.

Grangie's and Paw-Paw's tree is as beautiful as our tree!  We just love Christmastime!

Lunch with Gram & Papa (+ Santa Visit #3)

Last weekend we met Gram and Papa at the Bass Pro Shop for lunch and to see Santa.  This was my third visit to Santa this Christmas!  (Mommy still needs to upload my picture from the mall!)  While we waited for our turn to see him, we got to play with a few trains they had set up.  It was fun!

Madeline had no interest in Santa, of course.  And I'm pretty sure she didn't like Rudolph either.  Come to think of it, I didn't want to go near him myself! 

Then we got to ride on a little carousel they had, too.