Teeter Tot 1
27th November 2007
Analise and Josiah on the Teeter Totter. Click the picture to watch a short video.
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Archive for November, 2007
We’re on our way to Christmas!!
26th November 2007
We started the Christmas season on Saturday here in our house. I made turkey chili with cornbread, and we enjoyed my delicious apple pie for dessert. Brian brought our Christmas tree up from the basement. Can I just say that the Christmas tree storage bag I bought last year was a GREAT idea?? In contrast to last year’s experience of shaking a mice nest from the tree in its cardboard box in the shed, this year all the pieces were neatly stacked together with their other color-coded branches, and it went together so easily!
In contrast to last year’s sweet memories of a 2 1/2 year old Analise decorating, this year she was a HUGE help, handing Brian branches, sorting pieces into their color piles. (Sorry they’re not the greatest pictures, but they capture the moments!)
After the tree was up, Analise quickly determined we needed "presents", so she brought in a bunch of toys to keep under the tree. Good thing… I won’t be able to put the wrapped ones under until Christmas eve, because she’ll never leave them alone!
She wanted to be a part of everything, including fluffing up the branches with me, and helping me put on the lights. When I told her to be careful, she said, "Look, Mommy, when I stand on the chair, I won’t fall because my legs don’t wobble!"
We lost track of Josiah for a bit, and found playing in the kitchen, having found the pre-tree decorating snack.
Brian’s parents joined us for dinner and the actual decorating. Analise again, enjoyed putting up all the ornaments, especially opening the ones that were stored in their little Hallmark boxes. She was SO EXCITED about all the Christmas decorations coming out! She was determined that we were going to get ALL the decorations out of every box before she went to bed. She pulled out the velvet ribbon, poinsettias, and garland for outside and carefully placed them all over the house. It’s festive, specially the poinsettias sticking up from the blinds on the shutters:) She was so cute.
Josiah, on the other hand, was seriously into UN-decorating… that’s what these chubby little hands are actually doing 
When he took the decorations off the tree, he’d either take them to another room in the house, leaving them there… decorating in his little way, I’m sure
…or use them to decorate Grandma.
Though last year the tree was heavy on the lower 5-6 branches thanks to Analise’s decorating and Josiah wasn’t a problem, this year I’ve had to make the lower branches the "child safe" ornaments, and move all Analise’s carefully placed ornaments higher up to safer places. Now, if we can just keep him from pulling the tree over…
I’ll leave you with our one good ornament picture…
It’s going to be a fun Christmas with these 2 little sweeties!
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Videos
25th November 2007
Here’s a 10 minute video of a climb I did up Smeyer Road a couple weeks ago. Beautiful fall colors.
I’ll be posting more videos soon. Stay tuned!
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Analise’s Preschool Pow-wow Picnic
22nd November 2007
On Tuesday, Analise’s preschool had a pow-wow picnic. They had made pillowcase indian vests and feather headbands with their Indian names on them. Analise’s name was Little Fawn. I only stayed for the picnic, but after I left, they sat in a circle, played their Indian (oatmeal container) drums and danced the Turkey Tango. Fun!
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Josiah’s Thanksgiving Fun – cranberries!
22nd November 2007
I tell ya… he can entertain himself with anything! I got a cute video of him playing with them, too, and eating them. I loved running them through his fingers, rolling them across the floor, bouncing them, tossing them in the colander. He ate several, rolling them around in his mouth for a bit, before biting into them with a wrinkled face. After feeling it burst its tartness in his mouth, he’d reach in and pull it out, putting it back in the colander.
Love these chubby soft little fingerrs!
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