Goldy Gopher

We went to the U of Minnesota women's gymnastics meet last night. Maya was in fine form as per usual, wearing her bouncy suit and doing full on beam routines on the bleachers. Gotta love this kid!

Micey Monkey

Maya's latest dance/gymnastics routine. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t10wKSf7EKE

Found

Sorting clothes the other day I found ALL this in Maya's dirty clothes hamper. Brace yourself...

2 skirts from the "too small box"
3 clean, and still folded T-shirts
5 pairs of clean and still folded pants
1 clean summer dress
1 clean sweatshirt
2 dress up tu-tu's and 1 dress up shirt
4 swimsuits
1 American Girl doll hat and dress
1 pair of rolled up clean socks
2 plastic bracelets
1 random paper butterfly

This could possibly be her biggest haul ever, although I have found some amazing things in her dirty hamper. Gotta love this kid.

Lazy Sunday

Beauty shop-ing

Snuggling
Begging

Pouting

Working

Lego building

Fort constructing

Sleeping/TV watching

Now that's what I call a lazy Sunday!

I'm so glad Santa brought the girls these Rudolph noses in their stockings. The only thing better would have been if they actually blinked red like they were supposed to. This is one of my favorite pictures from Christmas!

Maya's Christmas Program

Maya had her Christmas program on Thursday. It was pretty much a repeat of what we saw 2 years ago with Maggie. Same anges, shephards, wiseman and Mary and Joseph, same songs.
Not that it wasn't totally cute though. How can 4 and 5 year olds NOT be cute when they're wearing these adorable angel costumes.

I mean..come on...isn't she the cutest little angel you've ever seen!

She belted out the Christmas carols, changed to fit her classes theme of going "Around the World". To us it was like deja vu, but she thought it was great.

Even the same teachers....who are fabulous by the way. And the nicest people you will ever meet. They are the ones who should be wearing angel suits...there are some characters in Maya's class that definitely require the patience of angels. : )

What we've been up to...

We've been busy...as is obvious by the lack of blog posts. As you can see from the pictures below, we've been busy!

First it was Bella's birthday. Our little lovely is now 9 years old. She got a new (on clearance from Halloween) spider which she promptly tore apart and destroyed the squeaker. She also got homemade pupcake treats that were a hit!
The Christmas tree was found, purchased and decorated...after about 3 trips to Target to get lights. Sigh.....

Maya's been quite the little performer lately. We've been attending LOTS of performance, both of the singing and gymnastics/dance variety. Very entertaining.

Here she's singing a Christmas carol, but usually its one of her kids CDs and let me tell you - she is quite the diva!

Maya and her BFF Lily have been playing...ok, mostly dancing and dressing up.

One day when Lily, Meghan and Chase were over, I set this sensory tub for Chasey so the girls could do a craft at the table without him drooling all over everything. Lets just say the girls liked the tub as much as Chase did.

Ahhh, they finally got to the craft...decorating Christmas shapes with stickers, glue and other stuff found in the craft bins. : )Here are the results of multiple crafts.

I found a couple of recipies for chocolate goodies and were just begging to be tried, so I enlisted Maya and Lily to help. Good thing Maya went and found those little aprons. I know the table looks clean in the picture, but trust me, it was COVERED in chocolate, as were the girls for the most part. : )

These Giant Mallow Cups and Christmas Krunch bars were super yummy!

So that's what we've been up to. Today we traded in the girls too-small ice skates for new ones that actually fit and headed to the rink. Their skating is much improved from last year already on our first time out. We are crediting it to their roller blades, but who knows. Pictures to come. : ) Tomorrow we're off to the Macy's display and the Holidazzle parade. Good stuff!