Kristin's Day 2 Day

Dec 12, 2011

Reindeer Food

I remember when I was a kid I thought this was so cool! I have never made it before but Leah and I decided to give it a try this morning.

This is one of those projects where you can really use whatever you want. Main ingredient - oats. And then I just used what I already had so I didn't have to go out and buy anything - glitter, red & green sprinkles, confetti.

Not sure what I was thinking letting my one year old have at it with glitter and tiny sprinkles, yikes! My kitchen counter and floor were COVERED and even though I cleaned it up, I have a feeling I will be finding red and green sprinkles around for weeks!

I wish you could tell from the picture how pretty and glittery it looks! I think next time I will add even MORE glitter! :-)

Then I just bagged it up and put on the cute tags!

All set to go deliver to friends!

Dec 11, 2011

All Bundled Up

This weekend seemed really long, in a good way. We didn't do anything too exciting. Mostly errands and tried to get some Christmas shopping done. Friday night I finally went to see Breaking Dawn with my friend Kim. I have to say I was thoroughly entertained by it! Can't wait for the final movie!

Dustin, Leah and I had lots of good quality family time the rest of the weekend.
Tonight we went on a walk around our neighborhood to look at Christmas lights.

Leah looked so little and cute all bundled up :-)
It has been so cold but not cold or wet enough to snow, boooo! I hope it snows this winter at least once!

Dec 9, 2011

Santa Pictures

Oh my goodness Santa picture day was somewhat of a disaster this year! Dustin planned to take the morning off and we were going to do our tradition of going downtown Seattle to Macy's to have Leah's picture with Santa. I had absolutely no idea how she would react this year. She knows who Santa is now, she sees him in books and stuff and seemed excited about it when we talked about going to see him. OK so first of all, we are getting ready to head out this morning and Leah decided to randomly yank on her stocking which made the heavy holder fall down right on her FACE :-( She was screaming and I started having a panic attack. Her eye was watering and there were cuts above and below her eye that were bleeding a little. It took her a long time to calm down and trying to put her boo boo ice pack on it only made her more upset. We eventually decided she was fine and that we would go along with our plans for the day and hoped her eye wouldn't start swelling up on our way :-/.

SO, we got downtown and there were only a few people in "Santaland" so we didn't have to wait in line which was great. Leah pointed and smiled when she saw Santa. When it was her turn, I carried her over to Santa. She immediately clung on to me tight. This Santa was SO GREAT at talking to Leah and trying to make her not scared. He was showing her his bells and his soft coat and giving her baby doll hugs. He finally got her to smile when he tickled her so I thought, OK, great I will try to set her down next to him. RIGHT when I did that her lip pouted out and big tears started welling up in her eyes and she reached out and grasped on to me. It was so sad. I could tell that Santa didn't want to hold a screaming and flailing toddler and he told me to sit down too and be in the picture. And while I did not want Leah to be terrorized and be screaming on Santa's lap, I am kind of bummed that I ended up being in the picture. I was NOT ready for pictures, I didn't look cute at all and I feel like I ruin the picture. So anyway, here it is......

I guess we will at least always have this story about the year she refused to sit on Santa's lap......

After pictures, we went to ride on the carousel outside of the mall. It is part of our tradition. Usually Leah loves it but I think she was still not recovered from scary Santa :-)

Plus, it was freezing outside!

After that we had lunch with my dad who works a few blocks away.

My dad bought us cookies and Leah wanted an m&m cookie, but she ate off all the m&ms and then gave me back the cookie, haha!

Wow what a morning! We all came home and took a nap!

Dec 8, 2011

Randoms

The last few days have been pretty mellow. A few of our plans got cancelled so Leah and I just hung around at home and ran errands.

Leah has been obsessed with doing projects ever since we made ornaments with our friends a few weeks ago.
She asks to do "paint" or "chalk" . I found this cute paint set in the dollar section at Target. Fun project for just a dollar!

Obviously Leah didn't paint by the numbers :-) but she had fun with it anyway.

She threw a fit when she was a mess and I finally took the paints and brush away!

Then we made yummy rice krispie treats! I tried to make them red with green sprinkles but they ended up looking kind of pink.

And then when they were cooling I stuck them in the oven (turned off!) so that our cats wouldn't get into them. Then later in the evening I was preheating the oven for dinner and OOPS I forgot to take the treats out first and they were hot and melted. But in the end they were still tasty :-)

I decided our banister needed some decorating. I thought about garland but went with simple red bows.

Leah has been pretty good about not messing with the tree. But she likes to take the ornaments down and play with them like they are toys. Luckily she is pretty gentle with them. Today she took down the angel and said "Hi Angel" and gave it a kiss. It was so cute.

Also, has anyone seen this app for kids??

It is awesome. Leah loves playing with my phone. This makes her feel like she is playing with a real phone but all the buttons have learning games, like colors, numbers, animals, etc. There is one that sounds like a little kid saying "Hello" and it was cracking Leah up!