Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year! I talk about it all the time. This Christmas I was very eager to help decorate for the season...Umgh...this is a big tin......Whatcha' think? Do I dress up well?!Hugging the tree...It's beautiful!I helped put these candy canes on the tree!

My handiwork decorating the tree...

We were back in Fort Wayne, Indiana, around Christmas this year. They have a huge Santa in his sleigh with reindeer lit up downtown. It's been around since before my mommy and daddy were born. Here is my reaction to it...

Santa...

His reindeer...

Daisy and I had fun posing for our Christmas card photo...

Cheese!

The night before we were supposed to drive to the Midwest for Christmas, it decided to snow A LOT in Maryland.

We got so much snow, we were delayed leaving the area for a day.

Here is Daisy trying to make a path out back...

The snow is taller than she is!

Well, we made it back to Indiana and Michigan. Celebrating Christmas with Grandpa and Nana, I, along with my cousins, decorated the tree...

Grandpa helped me climb up and slide down a pole in his basement!

Ready to play in the snow!

Family photo in the snow...

I love to make snow angels!

Back in Indiana I had fun playing with my cousin, Keira...

Here I am with my cousins: Isaac, Clayton, Nadiya, and Arianna...

Putting out the cookies and chocolate milk for Santa...

Santa came! Opening presents from him in Indiana...

Santa also came to our home in Maryland! Here is Daisy in front of the tree...

I love opening presents!

I received a lot of art supplies for Christmas...it's fun creating things...I love painting also...Check me out in my Lightening McQueen slippers...Being silly on New Year's Eve...Cheesin' it up!Daisy got to wear my Cat in the Hat hat also! Silly girl!The last thing we did for the holiday season was to drive through the Winter Lights display at the state park nearby... Ooohhh...

Ahhh...

Here is one tunnel of lights we drove through...

I really enjoyed seeing the lights!

Catchin' up...

Here is a glimpse of what I've been doing the past month:

I LOVE to help Mommy bake anything and everything in the kitchen. I pull up a chair and dump ingredients into the bowls, turn on the mixer, and even help frost cookies! Here I am frosing some bat cookies for Halloween...Can you tell which ones are mine?I really love to play games with Mommy and Daddy like Ring Around the Rosie, running and chasing games, catch, and Hide and Seek. Here are Daddy and me hiding from Mommy...Next up was Halloween...unfortunately both me and Daddy were hit with the H1N1 flu virus. I was laid up in bed for a few days with a high fever. At least I had great company!Having H1N1 meant that I could not go trick-or-treating in the neighborhood as I was really sick on Halloween Eve. So I could only trick-or-treat in our house.

Trick or treat!

Cute puppy dog!

Happy Thanksgiving! Here I am helping to make stuffing for the turkey...

Daisy could not wait for the turkey to come out of the oven!

When Aunt Wendy was in town for Thanksgiving, we went to the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Here they have a lot of huge airplanes, fighter jets, helicopters, etc. Wow! They are high!

This is what I was looking at...

Neat, huh?!

Here are Aunt Wendy, me, and Daddy...

Aunt Wendy, me, and Mommy...

The Enola Gay...

Looking at an Air France Concorde...

Daddy showing me some airplanes...Top Gun is a favorite movie of both my mommy and daddy. Here is an airplane like those in the movie...I really had fun looking at all the aircraft!