More Christmas Dancing

Except now it's Christmas Eve and Jadie knows it's just a matter of time!!

Christmas cookies for Santa

Yup, Jade is VERY excited. We made cookies last night for Santa and she has a whole plan for them (including all of the folks who will get a cookie - Aunt Lorraine, Mimi, Nana Poppop etc. and Suzie needs to take a nap before she gets hers!). I'm to place them in a zip lock bag so Santa can take them home to share with Ms. Clause and the reindeer. Wonder if there is an ulterior motive there?? Hum???

random shots and a movie

Wow - forgot about these especially the interpretive dance sequence at the end.

Santa's Visit

Santa came to our house last Saturday, we were having a party and he just wanted to check in with the kids, to make sure they were on the "nice" versus "naughty" list. Santa's pretty cool!

I didnt get pictures of Jade with Santa, a friend did and I have to scan the photo to post it.

Finally!

Finally - we are settled in our new home and are just about ready for the holidays. The move, or rather, the settling in, took WAY longer than anticipated. But we are in, fifi is set up, the tree is up and presents are ready to be wrapped. Here are some shots of Jadie getting the Christmas tree and then as Hannah Monanna. Cool stuff. More to come.

It's good to be back!! And yes, Jadie is VERY excited for Santa's visit. She is loving all of the Christmas movies, especially the Polar Express.

Santa's Village 2008

Here are some latest photos of our recent adventures. We went to Santa's Village in New Hampshire the other weekend and went on almost all of the rides. Jadie is a risk taker, and although she wanted to go on the ferris wheel and the "crazy" boat ride she told me she didnt like them, they were too scary! But the cool part is, when she was on the rides she didnt flip out!

We also got to see Santa. Jadie wanted nothing to do with him until she realized that he was the one that brought presents, which was a bit too late - we already had our turn sitting on Santa's lap (or rather Mom sat next to Santa, Jadie sat on Mom's lap) - so the whole ride home Jadie was telling us she really needed to talk to Santa - what a riot!

Jadie continues to LOVE pink, she is not listening and is testing us daily (terrible 3's here we come!) - but her vocabulary is awesome ("mommy are you nervous?", "mom, the moon is round and white", "mom, you are driving me crazy!", "I've gotta get out of here mom!") - ha, wonder where she's getting all of this from?

One more thing - we were grocery shopping the other day and jadie snuck some press on nails into the cart and of course I had to buy them, so we played with them last night and I took a picture.

Summer Update

We can't believe the summer is over! We had a great and busy one!

Jadie was invited to her first birthday party, we attended out 2nd annual China 135 reunion and even got up to Vermont a few times. We attended a county fair and went on rides and saw a ton of animals, we went to the pool or pond almost every day and made it to LBI only once. But Jadie got to go on Uncle Fred's boat and was able to hang out on the beach with her cousins.

Now that we are headed into "fall" (yikes) Jadie is counting to 20 (and 5 in spanish), she knows her colors, her favorite song is still the theme to Hannah Montanna followed by "Zipity Do Dah". Her favorite color is pink, she needs to do absolutely everything by herself including picking out her clothes and cutting her food with a knife (ahh), and she is still a dare devil. Towards the end of the summer she was doing cannon balls off the side of the pool (and being OK with going completely under water), what a trip!

She continues to hate sleep, chilling out, resting, being quiet, sitting still and sometimes listening. But Scott and I think that's what most 2-1/2 year olds are all about (ha, ha, ha). Time sure is flying!!!

Scott's 50th!

We celebrated Scott's 50th last weekend and we had a blast! All of our friends and family were here and the weather even cooperated! Thanks to Suzie our theme was "argh . . .pirates" after one of Scott's favorite cocktails (Ct. Morgan), however Scott's beverage of choice was Absinthe (no cutting off ears though). We even had a fireworks display courtesy of JJ. Thanks to everyone for making Scotts B'day a great one!

Dora THE Explora'

I went to TJ Maxx the other day and found a complete "Dora" outfit - hat and all. When I got home and showed it to Jadie, she had to put the outfit on (she liked the hat the most as you can tell), she also went into her drawer to get her "Dora" sneakers. She wore the entire outfit to school (sans the shirt!) yesterday, she added the sunglasses for effect. Very cute!

This first shot is Jadies attempt to take a picture, she doesnt get that the lens has to point TOWARDS what you want to take a picture of. But I don't mind, I have about 100 cute shots of Jadies eyes and nose!