Ho Ho Ho!

I'm not sure how I feel about this Christmas tradition. I was able to hold it together for the five seconds that mommy thrust me into this strange man's arms. All I know is that mommy and daddy weren't very far away and I was glad that I didn't have to stay here for long. All I have to say is No No No... I mean Ho Ho Ho!

Family Picture

I'm a Pink Polar Bear.  ROAR!

daddy, me and mommy

Starting good habits early

Now that I have two teeth, daddy has introduced me to my toothbrush.  I am learning to brush my teeth twice a day.  Once after breakfast and once after dinner.  I like the way the bristles feel on my gums.  I enjoy this just as much as I like eating and that is A LOT.

Sitting up on my own

Every day I am getting bigger.  Every day I am getting stronger.  Every day I learn to do something new.  I have been on the verge of crawling for a few days now.  I get up on my hands and knees (sometimes hands and feet) and rock back and forth.  I can move slightly forward by hopping like a frog, but when I try to pick my hands up I tumble face forward to the floor.  My hands don't seem to want to move.  Since I can't move at crawling-speed yet, yesterday I decided to try something new and found that I don't have to stay horizontal all the time.  I learned that I can push myself up to sitting all on my own.  Unfortunately this means that mommy and daddy aren't as quick to come help me sit up now so I get quite frustrated.  But, I have a weapon...  I have found my whiney voice and this seems to get their attention pretty well.  Be sure to take the new poll and vote whether you think I will be crawling before the new year or not.  

Winter Wonderland

A few weeks ago I posted a picture of the Autumn view out our living room window.  This is a very rare Winter view out that same window.  We have had snow on the ground since December 13th.  Schools and daycare have been cancelled due to the weather and the top story on all the news stations is "Winter Storm 2008."  Mommy measured the snow on our back porch and we have 7 1/2" on the ground right now.  We were supposed to get sustained winds of around 20-30 miles an hour with gusts up to 60 miles an hour, but it was nice and calm last night.  The snow fell most of the night.  It is a pretty Winter Wonderland out there.  I think we might just have a white Christmas this year.  

My First Snow

The snow came early to the Pacific Northwest this year.  On Saturday mommy, daddy and I went and picked out our Christmas tree.  Daddy put it on the stand and set it out on our back deck so he could bring it in the house later that evening.  The tree looked pretty outside al naturale, but to make it even better, and befitting the night we would decorate, it started to snow.  When I woke up on Sunday morning, the tree was sitting in our living room, all decked out with sparkly red and white lights and all of our pretty ornaments.  There were even some packages sitting underneath it's branches.  Outside, the ground was covered in snow.  Everything was white.  The three of us trekked out to our back yard and since all of us were fighting colds, we spent only a few minutes outside, but I got to play in my first snow.