Anna the Artist

Along with my easel, Santa brought me some art supplies. Today I tried out the paints.















Hard at work!















Mommy turned her back for a minute to check her email and when she tuned back around this is what I looked like.












"What are you looking at?"
















Thankfully, the paints are as washable as they claim to be!

Christmas Day

Santa came to visit me!















"Hey, what's going on down there?"














Who has time for a family picture? I was ready to get downstairs!
















I love my easel!

I've also had lots of fun playing with my food cutting set.

Aunt Katie and Gran Ran had fun with it too!

Let's see what's in this stocking! I got the toy duck from Bath and Body works that I've been talking about for over a month!

I declared my new Thomas set from Uncle Rob my "flavorite"! Don't you know that a girl can never have too many trains?

I also had a lot of fun playing with the remote control helicopter that Uncle Rob got from my Great Aunt Anne. I would yell, "3, 2, 1, blast off!" and it would magically start flying!

Christmas Eve at Papa and Nana's

Our next stop on Christmas Eve was Papa and Nana's house. I had more presents to open! They got me the Leap Frog Tag Jr. Reader. I've been having lots of fun playing with it!














Gabe and I had fun playing with Lily's presents.














Nana read us a story. I have a feeling next year we might not fit in her lap!














Aunt Mistie and Lily!

















Mommy, Aunt Mary, and their boys! Aunt Mary is due 4 weeks after Mommy is.

Christmas Eve at Suzy and Grandaddy's

Our first Christmas celebration was at Suzay and Grandaddy's house on Christmas Eve. This year I was really into opening my presents!














I love this keyboard that they gave me. It does so many cool things, including recording me singing in the microphone.














Aunt Katie, Uncle Rob, and Mommy




















Mommy, Daddy, and Nate. He'll be here before we know it!















Group shot!

Before Christmas Playdates

In the weeks leading up to Christmas I had some great playdates with some of my best buds. Here are Lauren, Ian, and I in front of Lauren's tree.














I went to Avery's house too and we had a great time coloring!














After we colored, Lauren, Avery, and I had a blast jumping off of the stairs (don't you love my face in this pic, I mean, it takes a lot of effort to jump off of one step)!














Back for more!















I love my Ian!

Busted!

There's nothing really exciting to say about this picture. Mommy just thought it was funny and really likes my Christmas shirt from last year (and the fact that it still fits this year!). She was trying to be sneaky and snap some shots of me playing with my animals and I caught her!

School Christmas Party

Today was my last day of school before the Christmas break and we had a party. Mommy even got to come to the party. Here I am about to enjoy my 1st juice box ever (yep, I'm deprived). Mommy learned a neat trick, if you pull the corners up the juice won't come out if you accidentally squeeze too hard.













All of the food was so good!














I got some Christmas tattoos on my hands and my cheek.

This is my class with our teachers, Ms. Kelle, and Ms. Carla. I love them! We're all wearing the Christmas tree shirts that we made with our handprints. I was too busy examining my tattoos to look at the camera!

Trip to Virginia

For Thanksgiving break we went to Virginia to visit Gran Ran and Uncle Rob. We had a great visit!














Our family. We have a lot to be thankful for!














Daddy, Mommy, and Baby Nate















Uncke Rob hasn't forgotten how to be a kid. I had so much fun playing with his old cars and trains with him!














Uncle Rob snuggling with his 2 favorite girls, me and his dog, Jenny.
















Gran and I wanted to get a picture with Jenny, but she pulled an Anna and escaped!














Daddy and I reading a story before bed on night.

Thanksgiving at Papa and Nana's

Before we headed to Virginia we celebrated Thanksgiving at Papa and Nana's. Gabe and I got to sit at our own little table this year!

We still love to pull each other around in the wagon and now Lily can ride in the wagon too.

Nana made us these cute reindeer shirts! Getting a good picture of the 3 of us was a challenge (and yours truly was the most challenging)!