Christmas Day

Opening presents Christmas morning at LuLu and Joe's. Mary Elizabeth was fascinated by each scrap of wrapping paper. She needed a lot of help with presents or we would still be opening today!

Playing with a ball that Santa brought with her stocking. Stocking stuff also included sippy cups, snack conatainers, new snacks, shampoo and diaper rash cream All the essentials!

Riding the new pony with her friends

Stuff Santa brought waiting for Mary Elizabeth to wake up. Santa brought a pony, Blue, Periwinkle and a DVD (Blue's Big Music Show).

Too cute!

Hugging her friends. This is one of M.E.'s latest accomplishments. She likes to hug!

We had a great Christmas. Mary Elizabeth has such a personality, she makes everything more fun. I do have Christmas pictures to post, but these were too cute to wait. M.E. is something of a stuffed animal addict (mmm... I wonder where that comes from!) One of her favorite activities is pulling all of my old stuffed animals out and playing with them. She talks to them, hugs and of course they get beat on the floor as well. Saturday afternoon she sat with me in our bed and drank a bottle. After the bottle she went crazy pulling all of the animals from the chest at the foot of the bed, into bed with us.

Thanksgiving, FINALLY!

Checking out the butterflies at the Butterfly Center

Eating Thanksgiving dinner. Mary Elizabeth is wearing LuLu's latest dress creation.

Lunch with the girls (LuLu and Mom) while shopping

Exploring the hotel room

Snoozing during a big walk

I haven't been a good blogger recently! I have been so ready for school to be out for Christmas, I think that is all I could think about! Here is our Thanksgiving adventure, finally.

We had a great adventure at Callaway Gardens with LuLu and Joe. The boys played golf and the girls enjoyed a big walk and shopping. LuLu got in some tennis. We also enjoyed good food and great weather. Mary ELizabeth really enjoyed Fantasy in Lights. She bounced and babbled and got really excited to see all the beautiful scenes. Unfortunately she had been suffering from a cold that had developed into an ear infection (we didn't know it at the time) and we had an "incident" in the car about 1/2 way through the ride. I finished the ride covered in vomit and M.E. was stripped down and wrapped in my fleece jacket. I think Mike had been jealous that I was sitting with M.E., until the vomiting started that is!! She was a good sport and enoyed the rest of our vacation, but she was not as cheery as usual. We finished the trip with a visit to the Day Butterfly Center on Saturday as we were leaving. All in all it was a first good trip to Callaway and I am looking forward to many visits in the future.

Mini road trip

With Scottie at Summer Classics

Meeting Scottie's new "child" Sam

The Sunday before Thanksgiving we drove up to see Scottie in Huntsville. We had a nice day, seeing Scottie and Phillip's house, the store all decorated and eating lunch. Mary Elizabeth is a good travel buddy!

Halloween

Finishing the night at LuLu and Joe's in PJ's, prior to the "incident"

Asleep upon arriving at LuLu and Joe's, Halloween was too much fun!

Hugging Mama B

Playing with new blocks at Pat and Big Joe's

Ready to hit the road for some trick-or-treating!

Halloween was quite an adventure! M.E. came home early from daycare because she threw up after lunch. She seemed happy, so we figured it was just a case of she ate too fast and too much so it came back up. Little did we know.... The evening started off great with photos at home and a trip to Pat and Big Joe's. Pat and Big Joe had treats and new soft blocks that M.E. tried out immediately. Then it was off to Mama B and Papa House's. They had a M.E. size Minnie Mouse and Tigger that M.E. enjoyed hugging and wrestling with. Then it was off to LuLu and Joe's. Peggy came over to visit as well. M.E. got puffs, a book with finger puppet and a book with a hoot owl. I don't know what we will do when Halloween visits only result in candy! We came home with a car load of new stuff! M.E. played in her play yard while the grown ups enjoyed an excellent dinner. I then made the mistake of offering her a bottle. After she drank just a little bit she started hugging and promptly threw up on me. It wasn't much so I passed her to dad and went to change my shirt. Before I was hardly back in the kitchen M.E. had covered everything near her in throw up! Dad and M.E. stripped down (dad into Joe clothes and M.E. into a beach towel) and once again we came home with nasty clothes in a plastic bag and started the washing machine. I guess we have a stomach virus.

New dress

Lulu's first smocked bishop dress was very successful. Mary Elizabeth looks like an angel in it.

Is this fun?

Mary Elizabeth and I usually take Molly for a walk in the afternoon after school and go see LuLu. The cold weather has not slowed us down, but she is a funny little bundle!