How times have changed

Times have changed so much since we were kids. I still can't believe that a 4 year old can do all this computer stuff that she does. She loves to climb up in Daddy's lap or wherever, and play with her Kindle. I think here, her and her Dad were playing a truck racing game on the Kindle.

Let's Play Daddy

Mikey took Josie to play in the snow finally. He'd been busy dealing with pushing the snow and taking care of sidewalks, he hadn't had time yet. I of course can't go out and play cause of my surgery, but I did sneak out to take some photos. Walking carefully of course so I wouldn't fall.
She could barely walk in the snow, it was so deep.


She then decided it was a good thing to throw the snow in the air. It didn't pack into snowballs though, so we weren't really in any danger from her hitting us.



Then she finally stood still so I could get some pics of her.

 

They then tried to build a snowman. They ended up with one with a very tiny head!



They even got out the shovel and the bucket she uses in the sandbox and made a castle. It didn't last very long cause as soon as Gertie went outside and Zoro came over to play, the castle was knocked down.



After digging and building, she decided to do the snow angel thing, and Daddy got the bright idea to bury her in the snow from the waist down. She thought it was hilarious.



We then moved onto playing on the swingset. We finally talked her into trying to go down the slide. She tried at first with all the snow on the slide and that didn't work so well for her, so she got her shovel and scraped all the snow off. Watching her hit the bottom after that was quite the show. Everytime she would go down it, she would slide that much further on the ground. She had a pretty good trail made by the time she was done.

Snow, Snow and more Snow

Well at least it waited until the day after Christmas to snow, but WOW did we ever get it!

Christmas Day

On Christmas Day, we had to wake Josie up so that she could open the presents that Santa brought her. She was still sleeping but we had to get ready in time to make it Papa Doug & Mama Carole's.

Santa did pretty good. Josie received a pink BB gun, a pink balance beam, a Belle doll (her favorite princess), the horse she was wanting and several other things.



And Daddy received an IU shirt that Josie picked out and a Hot Dog Steamer for his Thursday night hot dog nights.



We then headed to Papa & Mama's for breakfast and presents. The girls got a new American Girl, Kit. All three of the kids got a Kindle Fire. Josie got a Minnie Mouse outfit for her American Girl dolls from Uncle Nathan and Aunt Emily. She got a swimming Baby Alive from the Moore's. Papa and Mama got them all their annual Hallmark book for Christmas. Josie loves those things! And a whole bunch of other stuff.



After hanging out with Papa & Mama, and then going home an unloading, we headed to Aunt Sandy's for christmas with the Jones'. Josie had fun playing with Sophia, she was so excited to be able to see her again. And everyone was there.

Here's a pick of Louise and two of her great- grandkids.



Louise & just Josie



And Josie and two of her favorite people from the Jones family. Uncle Bobbie & Sophia!



Now off to go home and go to bed! Wow, the holidays, sure do wear you out!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we started out by finding Sprite in the kitchen with the reindeer food. Josie had made some at preschool, and Sprite got it out of her bag, added the magic to it, and stirred it up for her.

Daddy had to work in the morning, but once we got home, we gave Josie her annual Christmas jammies from us.

We then headed to Papa & Mama Mike's. Josie had fun chasing the cat around while waiting to be able to open her presents. She received a tumble mat, a book swing, books, movies, clothes, etc. etc.
I let Josie pick out everyone's Christmas presents this year. All the men got IU shirts and all the girls got long sleeve tshirts. Basically all of them were pink of course!







After going home and unloading from the first round, we head to Granny's. Where Santa Clause always comes and visits. Josie was scared of him again this year. Didn't make sense to me, completely comfortable with the ones at the malls, but not at her Granny's.







Granny is an elf for Santa Clause ya know, so she made a monkey pillow for the car and painted a tea set for the girls too. She then gave them to the Elves to take back to Santa.
Thinking that was it for the night, we head home to get Josie in bed so Santa can come. But instead she has another visitor bringing her a Christmas present. So while she waits on him, she gets Santa's cookies ready. This year she gave him Sprite and Oreo's.

Her visitor was Troy, he brought presents from him and Alyssa. They got her a frog towel for the bath and a Belle figuring for her room. She loved both!

Once we were all asleep, Santa came and brought us a pretty good pile!

Elf on the Shelf

What in the world is Sprite thinking?! She's going fishing in Josie's fish tank.