kindred spirits: Jan 12, 2011

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

pathetic snow day

Last Sunday we got snow. A sprinkling. I was really hoping for more--at least one good cold snow day would be lovely. We got barely enough to notice, as you can see.

There was just enough on the car to scrape together a "snowbaby" for Xaris.

She carried it all around, including into the neighbors yard, singing to it

And rocking it.

And then...sad news:

She also learned about throwing snowballs...

And got to try a taste...

I'm not great at downloading videos. In fact, our video camera is full, because I don't know the right way to download them to my laptop, so I've been using my phone for all recent videos. I really need to get better at some of the technology I own.

Here are a couple from recent weeks :)

X was playing "dress up". She walked out carrying one of my shirts and wanted me to put it on her (Mariners--nice choice baby girl!) Next thing I know she's walking around the house in my shoes. She went so far as to mimic my actions, because as I recorded her I squatted down to her level...and she did it too :)

I was trying to record X dancing with papa. She likes to stand on the kitchen counter and play in the cupboards with him while he plays music on his phone--they usually end up dancing. She had pretty much stopped, you can hear me encouraging more dancing...the funny part is her "death stare" she gives the camera at the end...

She is our delight! Such a funny little nut.

Tummy time?

Remember this?

Xaris' favorite position...she repeatedly does this--last night she spent more than 20 minutes lounged over a ball inside her saucepan from her toy kitchen. Still not sure why she enjoys it so much, but we're pretty entertained by it too.

Well...a few days ago we were getting her ready for her bath, and she was partially undressed (down to t-shirt and diaper). I was getting the bath ready and she was running around, and I came out into the family room, lo and behold she had taken off her diaper (she's known how to do this for a long time), and she was balanced over her basketball with her naked little bum in the air. OF COURSE I have a picture that will live on to be her future embarrassment, but as my blog is not private, (I'm considering it--pro's & con's from those of you with experience?) that picture will not be posted here.

Just thought I'd share the story, can't stop laughing right now as I remember it and write about it.

ICE

December 30th was our 5th wedding anniversary.

We celebrated by going up to Grapevine, TX to the Gaylord Hotel, home of the ICE! exhibit. We went to the exhibit last year with my parents and enjoyed it, so this year we decided to stay the night in the hotel and see/do more. It's a huge and beautiful resort--next time we are bringing swimsuits because they have an indoor pool and hot tub.

One of the youth at my church works there, and when we saw her that evening, she took us in for a free picture with Snoopy. I think it's on Ric's phone though, so I'll have to post that later. The best part about staying in the hotel, is that hotel guests get into the ice exhibit 1 hour before it opens, which meant NO LINE. We walked right in!

They give you these huge jackets, because they keep the room at -9 degrees or something to prevent the ice from melting. They have toddler jackets--but it went right to the floor on X!