Sofie is ONE

Life around our house hasn't brought too many pictures. Hopefully there will be lots coming soon whenever the new baby decides to arrive. I'm still asking for a baby sister...

My cousin Sofie had us over for her first bday party-she's already one!!! The Schafer boys and Sofie's other cousin Grant were also at the party. We all had fun playing with Sofie's new toys and chasing around her house.

Little Sofie is such a party animal! She made it all day without a nap and can barely stay awake to eat her supper here. I look guilty in this picture due to Robin, Sofie's other aunt, giving me a little snitch of Sofie's baby food. Thanks Robin, I'll help you feed Sofie anytime!

I spent New Year's at the cabin fishing, sliding, and playing in the cabin. I even got to stay up past midnight but I was a little tired the next day! Wishing you all a Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had a fun Christmas because I sure did. I love playing with all of my presents and wearing my new clothes. Mom thinks I am finally almost all caught up on my lack of sleep from the Holidays. There are a bunch of pictures below so you can see some of the Christmas Party action I had.

Christmas with Grandpa Len and the 2 other little people that were there-Sofie and Taylor

This was the closest I got to Santa-he did bring me some diapers for my babies which I really do like though so maybe he's not so bad after all.. I heard he won't be back for a whole year so I have some time to ponder on it.

The 4 rascals

Pud won my heart over by giving me some lipstick at Christmas. I liked my lipstick so much I even agreed to get my picture taken with him!

Avery, Grandma, and me. I only got to see Avery for 2 nights before Christmas but we had fun running around and playing together. It was extra fun to have the same Christmas dress as her that Grandma gave us.

Dad and I love playing Nintendo together on these cold days that we're stuck in the house

Enjoying some of our winter snow!

A hug for Daddy at the Holidazzle Parade

I'm a big girl now-check out my new room

Mom finally let me sleep downstairs in my new pink room. I love my pink room and I can say I officially made the move-officially, meaning I've only slept there two nights so far but it's going good. I have my own big girl pink bed, lots of pink toys, my princess stuff, my carebears, and of course my babies in my new big bed.

My old room turned into the toy room for now until my brother gets here. And by the way, I want a sister, not a brother. Mom says I have a strong will...whatever that means...and that my determination will not be able to win the battle of a brother vs a sister arriving-hmmm.

My movie seat

Sprinkling Christmas cookies with Mom

Sliding vs Santa

The excitment to go sliding with my Daddy....

....was a little greater than seeing Santa.

I went to "see" Santa and I mean see not sit by Santa on Saturday. I was brave enough to get a candy cane from him but I couldn't quite tell him that lipstick was on the top of my list.

Sharing my Christmas book with Daddy

Daddy and I out sliding

Getting into Dad's technical toys- he left them out for me to grab so I snatched them right up. Except, these headphones aren't playing any music???

Baking our first batch of christmas cookies with Mom



Who can resist a snitch? Beaware-if you eat any of my cookies they are hand baked with love and they probably have a few of my finger prints in them from the nummy snitches.

Helping decorate the tree

Happy Thanksgiving

I had a fun Turkey Day with Mom's family. There was all this talk about shopping and the Black Friday ads for tomorrrow so I decided to see what it was all about. They were right-there are tons of toys that I saw in my ad. Of course I need to have all of them. As you can tell from the picture, Dad's not too interested in my shopping list for tomorrow. I need to find a way to convince him to take me to the store so we can get some of these deals! Maybe I'll look for the electronics ads and find some stuff for both of us-I saw a princess radio and princess tv.

Snoooooowwwwwwwwwww

It snowed and I'm trying to figure out what this stuff is. So far, the only thing I can figure out is it messes up my mittens...

Let me just see what this stuff tastes like...

DELICIOUS! Just like ice-I love ice!

Enough taste testing, on to more important work-shoveling the driveway. I need to get it all done before Dad comes home from work. With the amount of snow my 'sand box' shovel can handle, it might take me awhile.

Trick or Treat

I had lots of fun trick or treating and I am still eating from my candy pile-I love candy. My costume was Minnie Mouse. I'm not so in love with Minnie but I do love anything pink so it was fun to dress up as Minnie for the day

In the morning I went to Amy's house with Mom. We met up with all my daycare friends and then some more neighborhood daycares. We went on a Halloween parade together and had lots of fun. Below are most of my friends from Amy's house

That night I got to hand out candy at home. I went trick or treating in the country when Dad got home from work. By the time I found my Lodermeier cousins, I was getting a little tired-somehow we still managed to eat just a little candy together and had fun with all of our treats.

Carving Pumpkins

Daddy helped me carve pumpkins before Halloween

I'm not so sure of the inside of this pumpkin

I'm starting to have a little more fun now that I can use a spoon instead of my fingers

and I'm finding some seeds

While Dad was cutting out the face, I couldn't help so instead

I got to draw a face on my little pumpkin

Then we were almost done and I got to put the hat on

And here we are with our masterpieces!

"Buff's Barn" (or Barn's Bluff as the rest of us know it)

We went to Buff's Barn this weekend and I got to do some climbing. I found a lot of leaves, some rocks, sticks, rock climbers, hikers, trees, trains, boats, rivers, a fox, and some more leaves.

It was a fun trip