My Friend Lily

This is my friend Lily Chandler. Her mama, Aunt Jen, Mimi, and Bampy came over to Nana and Papa's house for a pizza party on Monday night.


Lily brought over her Hannah Montana purple guitar and I absolutely HAD to play with it. It was SO COOL! Lily was nice and shared with me. We also played hide and seek for about 30 minutes. We hid in Nana's "Princess Room" and one by one everyone came to find us. We had so much fun.


Lily is going to have a new baby brother soon. His name is Wyatt and he is living in Lily's mama's belly right now. I love babies and I can't wait to see him!

ayda montana.

Daycare Christmas Party

Tammy and Twila hosted a fabulous holiday party for all of our parents a few days before Christmas. My Mimi, Nana, and Papa came too! We had been practicing our carols for days. I wasn't so excited to sing as I was to dance and I made sure EVERYONE was paying attention to me!



I stood right out front. Riley even put my hair into two very adorable french braids. I decided to do a little interpretative dance near the end of the performance.



Sorry the video is so jumpy. Mimi took it and was laughing hysterically through the whole thing. I don't know what her problem was....she's so rude sometimes!

xo ayda.

Christmas!

I feel like I have so much to tell you about Christmas! On Christmas morning everyone came to MY house to open some presents. Mimi gave me these neat-o castinettes! I love the way they sound--and they're good and loud!


When we were done with presents at my house everyone took showers and got dressed. I took a nap. Then it was lunchtime at Nana's house. And LOOK what was waiting for me there! A TOYBOX that Papa made all on his own! I quickly got down to business checking it out. I put stuff in the drawers and pulled the velcro letters off the box and stuck 'em back on. It's gonna hold all my stuff!


This is my great aunt Sally. I love to say her name...Sally Sally Sally. She was my human toy Christmas day and we had a lot of fun!



ho ho ho!
ayda sue

Christmas Eve with Lexy

My second cousin Lexy came over to Nana & Papa's Christmas Eve. All I wanted to do was hug her! I was really jealous of her cute outfit...


Lexy's not much of a talker but she did tell me she was a princess. No wonder she was dressed to the nines!

Holiday Spirit

In the name of 'Holiday Spirit' Nana and I made snowflake cookies!
Yuuummm. I just love baking.

I get to practice all my superior Patty-cake skills! You know the drill- roll it, pat it, pick it and something about the letter 'B'. Nana always helps with that part.

She's the best sous chef ever!



XOX Ayda 'Cookie Monster' Sonnenberg

What Ayda should have gotten for Christmas...

Nana brought a big dry erase board home from school for some Christmas Eve Win, Lose, or Draw. No one had more fun with it than Miss Thing. She loves to "paint" on it and is creative for long stretches of time. She does like to have someone to paint with, so she orders someone to "sit" next to her. For some reason if Papa paints with her she draws over whatever he is drawing and ruins it. Poor Papa!


The other night I was sitting with her and decided to see how smart she really is. I started drawing cartoon figures of animals on the board and asking her what they were. She got every single one. Sometimes she would make the animal sound rather than name them, but any baby who can tell my pig from my cat is a genius in my book.

I even drew a foot with "tonies" -- Ayda's word for toenails -- and Jennie told her to "paint in the toenies" and she did. Every single tonie. Guess I know what to get her for her birthday....

Mimi

Dr. Ayda Sonnenberg

Look what Tammy got me! Tammy is one of my super day care ladies and she got EVERYONE a present for Christmas! Holy cow! She gave me this awesome doctors kit because I am obsessed with the one at daycare and Tammy thought I should have one at home, too. I looooooove giving shots. I have more pictures from Christmas to share so check back. I'll put them up soon.

Dr. Sonnenberg

Roadtrip to Waterville

On our way back from NY over Thanksgiving Mama left our coats at a hotel in Waterville. Silly Mama! So today me, Mama, and Mimi took a trip down to get them. Mama has been blaming Dada for the missing coats. Boy didn't she feel bad when the hotel said that they were there all this time. Since my winter coat was missing Mama bought me this coat and hat at Target. I look Russian, no?


We ate at Big G's Deli and then we went to Marden's. Mama wants to find me my own little chair for the living room. No such luck. We did, however, find a friendly bear.


And we also found some turtles! Yum turtles! I hear little Russian girls LOVE turtles!



Natashayda.

ERNIE!

Grandma and Grandpa Sonnenberg gave me this Tickle-Me-Ernie when I was there for Thanksgiving. It is my absolute favorite new toy. When I can't find him I yell "EEEERRRRRRRRRRRNIE!" and he magically shows up.

When I push his tummy he giggles and then he falls over and kicks his feet. Oh my goodness that is so funny. I admit that I was a little scared of Ernie at first, but now I just think he is the craziest little guy.

ayda.

Christmas Card Photo

Mimi tried to take a photo of me, Mama, and Dada the other night in front of Nana & Papa's Christmas Tree but I would have nothing to do with it. I pitched a fit! Mimi did get this little shot of me putting an ornament on the tree, though.

Even though I didn't want to have fun with photos in front of the tree doesn't mean other people didn't. Mimi and Mama really hammed it up. They make themselves laugh. I don't get them.

xoayda.

Turkey Day in New York

It's becoming a bit of a tradition for Mama, Daddy, and I to travel to New York for Thanksgiving, which is fine by me! We have so much fun there! We stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Sonnenberg. Aunt Lisa made it home too! I didn't really remember everyone too well, but you know me, once I felt comfortable enough I really worked the room.

This is a picture of a whole bunch of us at Aunt Sandy and Uncle Joe's house. I'm playing with Daddy's uncle Don... I guess that makes him my 'great uncle', right? Well, I think he's pretty 'great' either way. I don't know why Auntie Lisa says he's so scary.


We had our big Thanksgiving dinner at great grandma Dywinski's.... oh boy was it delicious. Not that I sat at the table very long to taste much of it- but I got the important stuff down, like pie :)


I also got to play with my cousin Christian. I liked him, but I'm not too sure he felt the same about me. What's a social butterfly got to do to get the strong, silent type to notice her? I tried lots of things, but finally decided that sharing plastic sheep might be the way to go. It worked... for a minute. Maybe next year.


The best part of the trip may have been meeting my new cousin Morgan. She was only a week and a half old! I was a little 'ify' about not being the baby anymore... but she was so smooshy and cute I got over it.
Mama said I couldn't hold her, but she let me cuddle a little. I loved to touch and hold her little baby hands.



All and all our trip was pretty eventful. I hope we get to do it next year too!

xoxo Ayda Sue

Copy Cat

Yesterday I watched Mama cut her toenails. What a big girl thing to do all by yourself! I took the clippers when she was done and touched them to all of my toes. Then I did all of my fingers too, for good measure. Then I grabbed my goat leg and gave the hoof a little once over with the clippers. Mama was amazed that I knew that the goats hoof was like our fingernails. She must think I'm soooooo stupid!

xoxo ayda

Judy Jetson

Mimi calls this outfit that Nana made me my Judy Jetson outfit. Something about the pointy retro sleeve caps or something.

I don't know who Judy Jetson is but she sounds super cool! That's her in the corner of my picture. I love her hair! And while Judy looks good in red, blue really is MY color.

ayda.