hoop it up...

here are random play-time pictures from a week or so ago...

i am daddy's helper...

the weather was so warm on wednesday that daddy decided to wash his car. i LOVE to wash things and give "washing lessons." i often do "bath lessons" in the bath tub -- so i was really excited to do it on a larger scale. i like to instruct people (mommy or daddy) on the order of washing... i kept telling daddy that he needed to wash the windows first -- and again. and again. but i also helped to wash other parts of the car. we did a really good job together! and just think... we washed the car (and played in the water!) on wednesday. and on thursday, school was cancelled because of an ice storm. crazy weather!!!

more catching up...

in looking over my pictures recently, i've realized that i didn't share these christmas photos! better late than never!

the tooth necklace...

this post is a little late... on february 13th i lost a tooth! it happened in a very special way! my tooth was loose for several weeks. i was determined it should fall out at school. i was at my valentine's day party, eating a cookie. as i was chewing, i felt something hard in my mouth. it was the tooth!! when you lose a tooth at school, you get a tooth necklace to hold the tooth until you get home. my friend allie went with me to the nurse's office so i could get my tooth necklace. i love that necklace. and i love the TooTH! in fact, i have decided to keep the tooth. i am not giving it to the tooth fairy.

camper van adventures...

this lego-camper-van set is one of the items i received for Christmas. i built it *pretty much* by myself -- with just a little help from mommy. i also got some new squinkies for Christmas. i enjoy playing with squinkies & legos together. so hulasonnya & the dolphin sisters (sherrin & panama) decided to take the camper van on holiday.

Merry Christmas!!!

so i guess santa is making his rounds at everyone else's houses about right now. But he visited my house last night! mommy & daddy are both working Christmas day so they made arrangements for santa to visit us on Christmas eve-eve. we did all our gift opening & over-eating today! we opened gifts, then grammy & pappy came over for brunch. we played all. day. long. then we enjoyed a great Christmas eve service at church. we ended the day with reading the natvity story in our Jesus Storybook Bible. Merry Christmas to ALL!!

zoolight safari...

we LOVE our birmingham zoo!! on saturday night, we made our annual trip to the zoolight safari! the birmingham zoo puts out lights every year at christmas. in this picture, you can see daddy and me with the 3D flamingos. i also saw CrAzZzZy lights, even i sang it too.it was the song i read this in a book. "on the 7th day of christmas my truelove gave to me, 7 swans a swimming,6 geese a laying 5 golden rings!!!!" even i told mommy and daddy about DOLPHINtale 2! we are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad when we came home from zoolight. i love singing 12 days of christmas.

happy turkey day...

you can never give enough thanks, so we celebrated the holiday twice! first we had grammy & pappy over to my house on thursday. i helped mommy make carrot souffle & everyone (besides me!) said it was delish! on sunday we celebrated in huntsville with daddy's family. we roasted marshmallows & the adults had a bit of silly shooting fun. but the hammock fun was definitely my favorite!!