Polar Express and Jumping

Christmas is coming! Even Erin is aware of that. She is into watching Polar Express nowadays. This is how she learned about Santa and presents ["pesents" as she calls them]. Though she thinks that he carries all the goodies in a giant balloon and not a sack. Though in the movie the sack does look like a balloon. By the way, her friend Ariana is of the same opinion. Pook calls the show "Choo-choo train" and is ready to watch it all day long.

Our babe overcame her fear of Christmas lights and takes the ornaments off the tree without any hesitation. It is too bad that most of the time she does not return them onto the tree. I find ornaments all over the house-behind the couch, on the floor in Erin's room, under the kitchen table, bike trunk, etc. Erin also loves our Christmas stockings (all made by Grandma Corder). She studies the images, rings the bells on reindeer necks and pulls Santa's beard. But at least she is gentle with them.


This week was super duper cold, but at least it snowed [ Hallelujah!]. Erin got to play outside on Monday and Tuesday. I pulled her in the sled, pushed her down the hill and Erin tried to pull me (Hehe!), off course it did not work. We had fun! However, we've been home since Wednesday due to freezing temperature. Even though Erin seems to have inherited my cold weather resistance, 3F is too cold for her. Her nose and cheeks turn red in a matter of seconds.

Today we opted out for some indoor activities and went to the Kangaroo Zoo. Nope! There were no kangaroos or any other creators in this zoo. This is a residence of 3 story inflatable
DRAGONS

DOLPHINS
ALLIGATORS
FROGS
LIZARDS
STARFISH
SNAILS and
LEOPARDS
on which to
SLIP
SLIDE
SLAM
SWING and
CAREEN.
I did not think to bring a camera, so here is a photo from their web site. Just imagine that one of those kids is Erin. We are definitely going back and with a camera. Erin LOVED being there. She and her friend Ariana jumped, slid, slammed and had fun in any possible way. After 2 hours of being there both girls were absolutely against leaving. We had to drag them home screaming and kicking. As expected Erin was exhausted and took a nice three hour nap. I put my stamp of approval on Kangaroo Zoo. Highly recommend it to the owners of overactive toddlers.

Blogging

When you begin a blog you enthusiastically post few times a week. About a month later you post once or twice a week, than a few times a month until you get to the point when you can squeeze just one post a month or even fewer. I am at that point now, ha ha. I think that one of my resolutions for 2010 will be to blog at least once a week.

Erin is finally into reading books. She actually allows Andrew and I to read to her. Before she would just flip through pages not even wanting to hear what it says below the picture. Andrew finally sat her down and taught her that there is more to books than just pictures. I ordered a few books from Usborne books (MaryKay and Pampered Chef of children's books) and she loves them. I like that Usborne books are so well made that they actually will last you through several children even if they get pulled, kicked, drooled on and smeared with food. A huge plus is that the binding does not fall apart even under super-duper pressure. Besides the physical superiority of the books, Usborn can boast a huge selection for any age group with perfect illustration. Erin loves their toddler books. There! This is my sales pitch for the company, he he!

We put our Christmas tree up (I have to say that a 3 foot tree looks pitiful in the room size of our living room). Apparently Erin is being bothered by the tree lights. She likes the way they look , but she thinks that if she touches them while they are lit up she'll burn herself or something, which is good. To prevent Erin from yanking the decorations of the tree all I need to do is turn the lights on. This year Erin even helped me to decorate the tree. Erin rearranges the ornaments at least once a day, off course when teh lights are off. Christmas season will definitely be more fun for her this year.

Erin likes mama's stuff! Rollers are among her most favorite of my possessions. The other day she asked papa to help her put them in her hair , which he gladly did. Doesn't she look older in those :)?



By the way what do you think of Andrew's goatee?