Christmas 2010, No. 1

Ready for Christmas? Round 1.

We went over to Tiamo Jill's house to celebrate Christmas/Hanukkah. (By the way, have we mentioned that in the past year Mia has become 1/4 Jew and 1/8 Quaker? True story for another day.) We really enjoyed having a nice supper and celebrating with Jill, who gave Mia two fabulous educational toys. Mia particularly loves her new "laptop." Leigh showed her how to use it, and now she probably has her own blog and Facebook page.

S'more s'mores

We went to the best food party of the year: Soup and S'mores! Jenni and Ryan make all kinds of soups and then we make s'mores outside. Fantastic. Leigh gets quite excited about this. Why? Because South Africans don't have s'mores. They have lots of good things, but this isn't one of them. So sad. So we ate and ate and ate. Oh. And hung out with friends and stuff. That was nice, too.

Should we be worried?

No. Seriously. Should we be worried? Our kid has a serious fascination with cleaning.

The first bandadid

Look at this poor kid!


OK, so she doesn't look too put out by her owie. How did she end up with a mildly black eye and a nasty looking scrape? One word: Skye. As we know, Skye is one jealous bird. But this didn't come from anything cruel. Mia was trampled while walking through the hallway. (We've decided it's the equivalent of walking down the street when a herd of rhinos stampedes you out of nowhere.) Skye bumped her and Mia fell right into the corner of the door. Ouch! She cried for real for that one. It was sad. But of course she immediately got over it.

Then the next day, we discovered that the little scrape was bleeding. It was bandaid time. The first of many, many, many I'm sure.

Intruder in black

As usual, Skye likes to interfere. At least Mia keeps on reading her favorite book, Icy Antics.

Sometimes you gotta dance

Mia got the dancing bug during Taco Tuesday.

Yellow block of victory

She holds this little yellow block like it's the greatest trophy ever. A sweet, sweet victory for Mia!

Something had to give

We needed more space for Mia's dishes and baby food. Something had to go.

Bathtime salad

Mia loves, loves, loves bathtime - as we have already established. But she especially loves taking baths in Tiamo's sink because all of Jill's kitchen stuff is within reach.

The duck tub

Just an update: the duck tub continues to be hilarious. Because Mia is so all over the place now, it won't be long before we have to say goodbye. We will all be sad.