Great Pond Trip

It's been a long time since any of my family have been to Great Pond and, actually, I've NEVER been--until this past weekend that is! Mumma and Daddy decided that I was old enough to make the trip to Great Pond, but this time we didn't stay in one of those yurt thingys... we shared a cabin with our friends the Anayas! It was so much fun to have another little(er) girl to play with! This is me and my friend Vivie going for a sled ride... it was pretty cold out!

Daddy and Ayda did most of the fishing for our family. They even caught this fish!Ayda was much braver than me...

... or maybe is was just that she actually had thumbs in her mittens. I did lots of cuddling with Mumma

and even a little with Sissy

I did NOT however do much sleeping. You would think all that fresh air would knock a baby out! But nope, I wasn't having any of that ol' portable crib! Honestly, would you?! At the end of the long weekend, Ayda topped off the excitement by FINALLY loosing her second tooth! That thing has been dangling for weeks!

Happy Fishing Everyone! xoxo Violet

Christmas!

Hey guys! Christmas was awesome this year! Santa brought me lots of great stuff...and my family got me some great presents, too! We kicked the event off at Nana's on Christmas Eve. Here's me with my special stocking Nana made me.

In fact, Nana made everyone stockings! Even Baby Ian! Here are the stockings she made Mimi, Ian, and Uncle Shane...

Vilee got a little baby doll. She's really into babies right now.

On Christmas morning everyone came over to my house for breakfast! I had to be patient before opening all the gifts. I was a really good girl but it was sooooo hard! I got everyone gifts this year. I picked them out all on my own, too! Here's a photo of me giving my gift to Great Grandma. I just knew she was going to love those cookies!

Mom got me this cool monster hat, and Ian's aunt Meag got him these furry tickle monster gloves. I did my best to make a scary face for Mimi's camera...

This was Baby Ian's first Christmas...and he slept through most of it! But when he was awake he was a very good boy. I liked his cute reindeer outfit. Here is is hanging with aunt Sally...

We didn't have any snow on Christmas day, but boy did we get slammed afterwards! I spent a whole hour outside with Mumma playing in the snow the other day. I don't have to go back to school until next week...and I'm enjoying my vacation big time!

Vilee Walks!

That's right, peeps! I'm mobile on two legs now! Watch out world...this is just the beginning.

Thanksgiving!

Hello everyone!

We had Thanksgiving at Nan & Pup's house this year! And we ate a turkey that we raised in our back yard! That sucker was around 24 pounds of yummy goodness :)

Here's who was at Thanksgiving dinner:
Me
Vilee
Mama
Daddy
Nana
Papa
Mimi
Shane
Ian
Roland (Shane's daddy)

Roland is a magician and showed me some magic tricks! We put on a show after lunch and wowed the crowd. When he comes back to our house for Christmas he's going to bring some new tricks for me to try out. I'm pretty good at this magic stuff ya know.

I made special costumes for everyone for Thanksgiving. The girls (and Ian) got Indian headbands and the boys got pilgrim hats and bibs! Here's a funny photo of Uncle Shane and Baby Ian...

 

Uncle Shane was pretending to be a very serious pilgrim.

It was a nice day out, so Mimi took some photos. Here are some of her favorites...

 

 

Christmas will be here before you know it! I'd better start practicing my "good" behavior. I found out that Roland is Santa's cousin! Can you believe it?! 

xo Ayda Sue

 

Aunt Mimi & Uncle Shane

We had a busy weekend...and it was so much fun!

I had a really good week at school last week, so Mama and Daddy took me out to Texas Roadhouse for dinner to celebrate! It was a special dinner, so Vilee had to stay home. Well, not home, really, but with Mimi and Shane. I got to have my parents ALL to myself with out sharing them with my baby sister. It was awesome.

Vilee here....I didn't want to go to that stinky restaurant ANYWAY, just so you know. I was perfectly happy chillin' with my aunt and uncle. Shane fed me my yummy dinner in baby Ian's high chair (he's too little for it right now....don'cha know!) and Mimi gave me a super bubbly bubble bath. I read a book, played with some toys, and stood up on my own with NO HANDS...thankyouverymuch! I event got to sleep in baby Ian's comfy crib! It was awesome.

Anyway....as I was saying. 

On Sunday, Uncle Shane took me on a date to see a funny play about aliens and zombies. Mimi was worried that I would be afraid but I wasn't! After I had dinner at Mimi and Shane's house and got to watch a video on Mimi's iPad -- my MOST FAVORITE passtime. 

I didn't really want to go home after dinner, so I suggested I clean and dust Mimi's spoon collection. Collecting spoons is really weird, but it was fun trying to guess where each came from. They were REALLY dusty!

 

And today I don't have to go to school! It's Veterans Day! What an awesome three-day weekend I'm having!

xo Ayda (and Vilee)

Gossip

Ian had a hard day at daycare...he didn't want to take his afternoon nap! Listen to how he talks about his daycare provider, Tammy. What a rude baby!

Halloweenies!

Halloween came and went but not before me and my little "monster" friends (Okay, only G and I were monsters) and I took full advantage of the festivities!

On Saturday Mumma and her friends took us kiddos to Downtown for some trick-or-treating.  It was VERY warm out--so the ghouls and goblins came out of the woodwork!  It was too crowded for us, so we split.

Vilee slept for most of the trick-or-treating, but she was a ladybug--see?

Later that day we decided to carve our pumpkins with Pup, cause he's the best at it.  I scooped all the guts out and the babies helped...

.... kinda.

The pumpkins were pretty spooky once we lit them all up.  And some came out looking a little familiar... hmmmm.

Happy Halloween Everybody!

-xoxAxox