Saturday, December 19, 2009

O Christmas Tree

The Kelly Christmas tree is has been up and ready ever since the day after Thanksgiving. Maggie helped me decorate it, as did grandma and grandpa since they were here visiting. Maggie was actually a good little helper, holding the lights for me and putting a lot of the ornaments on. I have to say it looks pretty good!



At school last week, the kids came one day to a BIG suprise! A gingerbread house was blocking the doorway! They had to crawl through the house to get into their room! A gum drop path even led the way to the front door of the gingerbread house.


Peek-a-boo! So fun! She had her little Christmas show at school last week as well. The kids were dressed as parts of the Nativity. Maggie was a shephard (by her request). They sang a bunch of songs with the theme, Christmas Around the World, which is also the theme of their classroom this year. They did a super job and of course were looking so cute!!!! Right now, she is at the gym with her team mates having their holiday party which entails running around the gym like chickens with their heads cut off, and then tomorrow is the little preschool Christmas program at church. Busy, busy, busy!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Potty talk

Maya seems to march a little bit to the beat of her own drum...especially in the bathroom. Her potty habits for one thing...


...need I say more.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Disney - Day 6

I know this trip has come and gone, but I've been a blogging slacker lately and haven't gotten the chance to get the final group of pictures up - so here they are. Our final day was spent at Magic Kingdom. We danced in a parade on Main Street, tricked Maggie into going on Splash Mountain and zipped around the park going on all our favorite rides one last time.

When we got to Disney, it was all decorated for Halloween...by the time we left it was fully decked out for Christmas!
Poppy, Daddy and girls.

Man was it bright out!

Daddy just had to have a few pictures in front of Christmas trees.

Wreaths and garland everywhere!

Here comes the parade!

Mickey, Donald and the gang!

Even Goofy!

This is the float the stopped closest to us. The Jungle Book characters were all there!

Daddy, Poppy and the girls dancin' in the street!

Oh no...the dreaded Splash Mountain. We had to trick Maggie into going on this one. When she found out halfway through the line to the ride, she was NOT very happy about it. She hated it, I'm sure mostly because she was dreading the end the whole way through!

This is a picture of the picture we had taken going dow the big "drop" at the end. Aaron is in the back with his hands up, and Grammy, Maggie and I are in the seat in front of him. Mags is hard to see because she is totally sardined in between me and Grammy holding on for dear life! : )

The Barnstormer rollercoaster in Toon Town was the girls' favorite ride. They even got to ride in a seat all by themselves. They thought they were hot stuff!

They even got "frequent flyer" cards from the workers!

Maya and Grammy on the people mover.

Daddy and Mags taking a picture of themselves.

Mommy and Maya tried it too!

Poppy stood in line at Ariel's Grotto and the girls got to meet Ariel up close and personal!

Trying on hats while we were waiting for Maya's "ears" to be embroidered.

Finally done!

I guess all videos go to the bottom of the post. This is one of the parades we saw. I think it was a "block party" of sorts. All the floats stopped on Main Street and the characters got off, pulled people out into the street and had a dance party!