Christmas Part 1

We had a fun week that was very busy. Rory pooped on the potty twice. It would have been 4 times but the first time she was standing in the tub saying poop,poop....but she was peeing so I told her she was peeing and then she pooped. We decided after we get back from Sac that we are going to get her a potty and if she wants to use it she can. Friday we had our christmas eve. It was nice, she was cute opening her little presents. Nemo has become her favorite and she sleeps with him and carries him around in the morning and at bedtime. We watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas, she liked it. "Christmas" morning was a lot of fun. She did so good opening all of her presents. She is very careful and precise when she opens them. Her favorites are her elmo live and ming ming doll. Danny made blueberry pancakes, sausage and eggs. Yummy, Rory loved the pancakes! Saturday night we went to a light show/winter carnival. The lights were pretty and Rory enjoyed walking around the carnival. We played a few games and got her some lame carnival toys. It was freezing so we didn't stay very long. Sunday we went and had lunch with Danny, Rory got pizza. That is her favorite food at the moment. Next weeks entry will be longer...we will be in Sac with our family and friends!!!

Christmas Prep

This week was a lot of fun. Tuesday after work we took her to meet Santa. We thought she was going to be okay. While we were waiting she was saying Ho Ho Ho and waving to santa, and then it was her turn to sit on his lap. She was holding onto her daddy and was not wanting to let go. Santa gave her a sucker and she calmed down a little bit and let us sit her next to him on the chair. She almost started crying so in all of the pictures they took her eyes are red. We picked what we thought was the best one, its cute because she looks very nervous and is sitting the same way as Santa. Afterwards we went and picked out her yearly ornament. We got an Elmo one since she loves him so much.

On Wednesday we went and bought our Christmas Tree. It was freezing outside so she was not to happy. She was walking around with her hands in fists, she was scared of the trees and she just wanted to be held the whole time. She did enjoy standing by the fire with her daddy while mommy got the tree. We tried to take a picture of her in front of the tree we picked out but she just cried. We decorated the tree and now she is obsessed with the ornaments and taking them off. This has been so much fun since she does not listen when you tell her not to touch them.

Sunday was picture day. We went to picture people and they did an awsome job. We got a few goos hots of her in her dress but she was really distracted because they were doing her pics in the front of the store. Meaning there was all these people walking by that she wanted to look at. After trying to get a couple family pictures with no luck we put her in her pj's to do the now famous cookie pics. As soon as she saw the cookies she was in a great mood and was hamming it up for the camera. We got so many great pictures of her with the cookies. The guy who took our picture order told me I had to sign a release form for the pictures because he wanted to use them, then the manager said that if they didn't put them up for this year that she would use them for next year for sure. Yes they plan that far in advance. After that every employee was talking abou how cute the pictures were and how creative of an idea it was. We bought a lot of pictures so everyone has some coming. While we waited for them to print our order we walked around the mall a little bit. We went into the disney store. She had a lot of fun in there. She was putting all these little toys in the princess shopping cart, carrying around a Nemo stuffed animal and said goofy when she saw a doll of him. After that we went to nordstroms and got he feet measured. She is in a size 6 now but we were told to buy atleast a size 7 or 7.5. So we got her a pair of really cute pink pumas and uggs. Spoiled?

A few cute things she has been doing this week is saying mommy/daddy where are you? if she can't see us. She has been going into her closet and taking out her rainboots and ladybug wings. She brings them to one of us to put them on her. She looks silly in rainboots, wings and a dipaer. Her book obsession last week was I love you stinky face and The Foot Book.

Picture people pics to be posted tomorrow.

Turkey Day

Well this was a very busy week for Rory. We drove down to North Carloina on Wednesday and she did so good on the 6 hour car ride. She took a nap, hung out and watched Madagascar on the way down. While she was watching Madagascar she was making animal noises, naming what they were and laughing througout the movie. I think that is now her favorite movie.

Thanksgiving day Danny, Aurora and I went to the airport to pick up her Grandma and Grandpa. Luckily she napped the whole way there because traffic was horrible and she was in a great mood when they got in the car!!! She had so much fun running around the house and playing with maddy and gb(big dogs). Not to mention the constant attention she was getting from her Grandma, Grandpa, Memaw, Grandad, Aunt Barbara, Aunt Joan, David, Uncle Richard and Lisa. She sat at the table with us during dinner but only ate mac n cheese and bread. She liked the macaroni so much she was trying to eat it straight out of the dish. David was teaching her how to wink but she would just blink. Very cute though watching her try. It was cute when her Aunt Joan would ask for a hug or kiss she would say yea and then run away. She was acting like it was a game.

On Friday we went to a place called Lazy 5. It is an animal park that you drive through or ride on a wagon to see all the animals. It is Safari style so the animals all run free and come up to the wagon so that you can feed them. She really enjoyed it. Her Grandpa was the only person who got the Giraffe to eat out of his bucket. She loved the swings and going down the slides. Rory got really excited when she saw a duck up close but it was not to friendly and bit her daddy, grandpa and HER. She didn't cry or anything. When we were getting ready to leave she was standing at the fence looking at an emu and that bit her too. Apparently her and birds do not go well together.

On Saturday we got to test out her Jeep Power Wheel (early xmas present from the grandparents). She likes sitting in it but is a little unsure of it when it is going. She did ok pressing the "gas" by herself but does not know how to steer yet. She went on walks with her grandma and played chalk outside until it started raining. She spent a lot of time playing in the leaves, running around the backyard, playing cash register and playing the organ with her Memaw. The highlight of the weekend was her playing in the leaves. There were huge piles of leaves and she kept going straight to them, sitting in them and laughing really hard when leavea were dropped on her head. Saturday night we went to a surprise party for her Aunt Barbara. She was hamming it up for the guests, kept going to her Aunt Barbara and saying Barbara. As a special treat she got to eat some frosting off of the cake.

We left early Sunday morning to try and beat traffic, it didn't work. What should have taken 6 hours took around 8. When we left that morning it was raining so it was the perfect oppurtunity to try out her new rain coat and hat and to take some cute pics.