More Fun

A few more fun things going on around the house:

1. Mia has been fascinated by shadows recently.  It is especially funny to me to watch her just before bedtime.  She seeks out our shadows on her bedroom walls each night, and she will wave to them, blow kisses to them and say "night-night!" to them.  She loves when I make shadow puppets on the wall too.  It's so funny to see how impressed she is with them!

2. Lily has cracked us up recently by telling us everything's "nick-nack name."  For example, she will say "Mommy, do you know Mickey Mouse's nick-nack name is?  Mick.  I think his nick-nack name is Mick."  She then laughs at her own little joke.  We just think it's really funny that she says nick-nack name instead of nickname.

3. Lily has been very kind to read books to Mia recently.  Today, my mom said they spent about 30 minutes just sitting on Lily's bed, and she "read" about a dozen different books to her.  One of her favorite ones is the new "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" that Bama gave her for her birthday.  After hearing me read it to her twice, she had it memorized and now recites it to Mia (or anyone who will listen for that matter).  She is such a sweet big sister!

Mia's shirt is a perfect description of her!  In case it's tough for you to read, it says "Happy Girl." 

 I'm not sure why, but I love this picture of Mia and her pigtails.  She was making a funny face for the camera.  I realize I say this a lot, but I can't get enough of those eyes!

On Monday, Lily was so excited to see a birthday package from Grandpops and Grandma Jan.  Here are a couple of pictures of her opening their gifts.  She cannot wait to decorate this cute purse! 

 She couldn't wait to dig into this "Rolling in the Dough" set.  We opened it immediately, and pretended to be a bakery.  We made waffles, pizzas and all sorts of goodies with this set.  I see a lot of fun in our future!

 Here is Lily making her pizza dough.

 We saved the presents from Bama until Liz came back on Wednesday so she could watch Lily open their gifts.  Lily was thrilled with all them...pompoms, googly eyes and scissors for craft projects, princess socks, new hair bands, and Lily's favorite game - Tic Tac Toe!

 Lily immediately fell in love with this adorable cat that Kendall, John, Josh and Amy sent.  She decided to name it Phoebe which is also the name of one of Liz's cat.  She loves it!