This weekend we went to the parade! I got lots of candy, tatoos, and a slinky. I was really excited to see the horses. But my favorite thing was dancing along with the marching bands.
The next day we went to my mommy's cousin's wedding. There were lots of babies there! It was really fun. I wore nail polish and my tatoos from the parade. I got lots of compliments!
Then we went to the lake. It was chilly and the water was so deep! After I begged to have my swimsuit on, I decided I didn't really want to swim after all. William had lots of fun, though.
Another exciting thing at our house is the bird's nest by our front door. The birds are always singing. Yesterday mommy held the camera up to take a picture so we could see how many eggs there were. There are 5! I hope we get to see the baby chicks when they hatch!
We haven't had ball this week because of the rain, but I'm having fun with it! I was very shy at first. It still takes me a while to warm up to the game. I sit on the bench until my coach puts the pink helmet on my head and the bat in my hand and then the smile comes on my face! I even field the balls when I'm not too busy digging in the dirt or preoccupied with getting my giant glove to stay on my hand. I love it when the crowd cheers for me. I'm the only girl on my team, which is a big reason why I'm so shy at first. But three of the boys are friends from ECFE and one is a friend from daycare, so I certainly have a big cheering section. There are plenty of other girls on the field, just not on my team. Here is a video of one of my first at-bats. Enjoy!
"Yay! Hooray! I finally lost a tooth!" I took a bite of an apple. My tooth did not fall out. I took a few more bites. And POP my tooth fell out! At first I thought it was an apple piece. And then I noticed it was white and I noticed that it was my tooth! Om-nom-nom! I was just gnawing through that apple. After my tooth fell out I had a few more bites, but I was full. And that night, I found a dollar under my pillow. It had a tiny, tiny 'P' on it. Mom did not know what it was. I held it up to the light and I saw that it was a 'P' and I knew what it stood for. Since the dollar was silver, I knew it was from a different state. It was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was from the tooth fairy! I looked in my tooth container. Nothing was in there! The tooth fairy turned it into money... or did it take the tooth and leave the money? I showed Mom the "I finally lost a tooth dance." You'll see a video of it on this blog. I showed Dad the "I finally lost a tooth dance," too. The end. That's a true story.
What a wonderful week it's been! We have received so many great gifts, it feels like it's already Christmas. Friday was definitely the highlight of the week. It was everyone's last day of school before break so we went out to lunch to celebrate. Then we came home to build gingerbread houses. But the very best part of the day was that Lillian Kathleen was born!
My brother Joe and his wife Kathy had a baby girl at 12:37am. She was 6lbs 12oz and 21 in. She is called Lily and is as beautiful as her name! Eliana and I went to visit today. Ellie was so sweet with her. She played peek-a-boo with Lily and sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in a soft, soothing voice, which brought a few tears to the grown-ups' eyes.
The happy family
Lily decided to be born just two days before my birthday! I enjoyed an early birthday dinner with my parents and Michael on Thursday night before William's school Christmas program. The presents were perfect and the program was great fun (have you ever seen the three kings represented as the kings of rock&roll, soul and country before?). I'm looking forward to a fun birthday date with my husband. We're finally going to see the latest Harry Potter movie!
I have to go back just one more day to Wednesday. It was such a fun day! In the morning, William played We Three Kings on the piano in front of the whole school at chapel. He did a marvelous job and everyone (parents, grandparents, teachers, classmates, his sister and of course William) was very proud. Scroll down for the video. But that was only the beginning of a great day. Eliana and I went to the radio station to sign up our trivia team. We got lots of pictures to work on for the next couple months! Then during naptime I went and picked up our first ever 1/4 of a cow. It was quite an experience to go into the back of the butcher shop where the crew could be seen cutting up fresh meat. The back door of the market had hay coming out of it where they bring the cows in. The farm that our cow came from is less than a half hour away. It lived a happy life and you can totally taste it! The steaks we had tonight were amazing. Thank you, Cow! You were one of the many things this week that really made it feel like Christmas. We've had so many reminders of how blessed we are! We wish everyone a very blessed Christmas!
Merry Christmas :)
*Warning* the cheering is much louder than his playing!
This week was National Education Week at my school. There were lots of fun things going on.
On Monday I got to bring a stuffed animal friend to class and have my picture taken with it. I brought my monkey. We made name tags for our stuffed animals just like we make for ourselves and our moms and dads. My Monkey got to sit by my teacher Janie's Big Bear during snack time and while I played with my friends.
On Thursday my mom and I made a special trip to school to see Buddy the Drummer. He played on his big African drum in the gym. It was really loud! At first I covered my ears. Then I took mom's hand and pulled her closer to the front so I could dance with the other kids. It was lots of fun. At dinner I didn't even hesitate when Daddy asked what I did today. I told him all about Buddy the Drummer. Today I started singing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star the Buddy way. Mommy made a video so you could see my Buddy style.
We penguin slid... wait! Let's start from the beginning. We went outside to play and I slipped and fell in the driveway. The driveway was icy! Then we started to mostly play on the driveway. We sledded on the driveway. We did tricks on the driveway. We did bobsledding on the driveway. Isn't bobsledding fun if you ever tried it on your driveway today? It'll be fun if you didn't try it today. We did tricks with the snow and ice on the driveway. Like throwing them at the driveway and making fireworks or skidding them on the driveway. The end. That's a true story.
