Sledding

On Sunday we packed up the car (and the dogs) to take a road trip to Michigan to see family for Christmas. After about a 15 hour drive, our first (long) stop was my parent's house. We packed all our snow gear so that hopefully we could take Kaitlyn for her first sledding adventure. We got some fresh snow Monday night, and that made the perfect sledding hill for a toddler. At first, Kaitlyn wasn't too sure about the whole sledding thing. After a few times down the driveway she had a blast! The dogs also really enjoyed sledding too! We also pulled her in the sled around the block, she really enjoyed her "winter stroll."

Here's a few videos from her first sledding experience:

Merry Christmas, early!!

We have been having Christmas all week long at our house! Since we will be traveling to Michigan in a few days, there are some gifts that we wanted Kaitlyn to open early (as some presents won't be able to make the trip north because they are too big). It's been a lot of fun watching her open gifts, and play with her new (age appropriate) toys.

My new outfit from Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Wood :)
It's toasty warm :) Thank you so much!

All of Kaitlyn's grandparents went in on getting her a wagon. Since we couldn't fit the box in our car (and all our travel things) we let her open it early. She LOVES it!!!! The past few days it's been pretty chilly outside, so we've kept the wagon in the house. Kaitlyn has her baby and Minnie strapped in for the ride and she'll pull (or push) the wagon around herself. She really likes it when the puppies go for a ride with her. I think the dogs kind of like the little ride. :) We had a beautiful day out today, so Mike took Kaitlyn around the block a few times in her wagon. She really enjoyed herself! She actually stayed in the wagon (didn't want to get out and push) the whole time, and they were out about 45 minutes! What a great gift!!! Thank you, Grandmas and Grandpas for the awesome wagon!

(notice her baby and Minnie are both strapped in! hehehe)

Riding in the living room with the puppies...



Presents from Grandma and Grandpa Landis

I love to read and color with Mommy and Daddy!
Thank you so much for the Princess books and coloring books (that's much better than a blank sheet of paper)




Nativity from Mommy and Daddy, we can't tell if she likes it yet ;)

Box Car

Kaitlyn and I made a car out of a big box today. She really enjoyed taping and coloring her box car. Even the dogs got to have a ride. I took a few pictures while we were making the car, and I'm glad I got a few. After the first ride, Kaitlyn crashed her car into the door (she was pushing her babies in the box) and totaled the front of her car. Good thing it's made of cardboard. We had lots of fun today!

this is from a few days ago...
she dumped all her toys out (look to the right) to sit in the basket.

this happy face came while we were watching a video of cousin Luke

Kaitlyn has to pick the right color for her car

color, color, color. She had a blast getting to color the "box car"

nice set of wheels you got there :)

Busy body

Kaitlyn sure knows how to keep busy during the Christmas season! She really has been a joy to watch :) She loves stickers, and one night she wanted to share all her stickers with Daddy. Daddy didn't see her loading up his sock with decorations.


Kaitlyn found my Mickey Mouse hands. She LOVES them. Here she is putting on the gloves...

... and saying "pat-a-cake, bakers man"...

... "mark it with a B"... Opa taught her Pat-a-cake, and she keeps finding new ways to say it.

Chef Kaitlyn is cooking for her dolls, using the doll's kitchen. Tasting it to be sure it's just right!

Time to feed her baby!

Kaitlyn likes to say "eeeeeeee" for pictures, works just as good as cheese :)

This picture looks like Kaitlyn is waiting for dinner, but really... she just finished it.

This video is a little dark, but I just love hearing Kaitlyn play!



Daddy was bouncing Kaitlyn on his knee, and then stopped...