My Presents

I got all kinds of things from all kinds of people yesterday. Most of them make really annoying loud noises that I love to torture M&D with. Some of them don't make any noise at all though. You can see here that I am trying out my new Princess chair that DeeDee brought for me. Daddy sits directly in front of me any time I'm in it because he is worried that I am going to launch out of it. But I am learning how to rock it on my own now. Here's a picture of me enjoying my chair this morning.

By the way, for those keeping count at home, this is my 100th post in a little less than a year.

My Christmas Afternoon

Wow, I really do like this whole Christmas concept, whoever came up with that should get a medal or something. All day long I had people around me showering me with attention and giving me gifts. Most importantly, I had people around me sharing their big people food with me. I must have eaten a pound of sausage from Pop lavishing food upon me in order to garner my attention. I had Pop and DeeDee, Lee and Casey, Alice and Katie, and eventually Meme and Big G all over at my house for yummy dinner. I really do like turkey I've decided. Mommy says that's a good thing since we have more than half of a 22 lb'er leftover.

My Christmas Morning

M&D have been reading me the story Twas the Night Before Christmas. I thought it was just a nice story that rhymed, but boy was I surprised when Mommy brought me down stairs this morning. There were presents nicely wrapped underneath our tree (that's on a table). Santa had even brought some for me, I must have been a good girl. I got a doll and an NC State t shirt, so exciting to be a lil wolfpack fan. I had fun tearing open wrapping paper and undoing bows. I had so much fun that I had to go and take a nap about and hour after I woke up. Most exciting was that Santa brought us a new laptop so I can blog from anywhere in the house now. More to follow, but off to see Mogie now.

My Reindeer

M&D took me downtown tonight after dinner.  They had told me all about the lights and the lighted animals. We first went into the James Center and saw the enormous train, Big G will be so jealous when he hears.  Then we walked next door to the Omni to see the huge tree with colorful lights and all of the lighted reindeer. M&D found a gentle one that was laying down and let me sit next to him. Thank you to the nice Asian family that waved their cameras at me that finally got me to smile for this picture. Daddy ended up with about 6 no-gos on his camera. What did people do before digital cameras? On a related note, Daddy was recently listening to the Outkast's "Hey Ya", they kept singing "shake it, shake it baby, shake it like a Polaroid picture" I asked him to explain, and he did, but I don't think that I get it. Why would you ever need to shake a picture?*

*Ed Note, Polaroid ended production of its polaroid film last week.

My Dora Diego Ducky

This is my Mommy trying to feed me dinner this evening.  I have my favorite ducky clutched tightly in my hands and try to put it in my mouth from time to time. The rub is that Mommy is trying to feed me delicious yogurt that has Dora the Explorer and her compadre Diego on the carton. I'm not big enough to watch Dora yet but I can't wait for the day. Daddy tells me that there is a cookie company called Stella D'Ora or Stella of Gold. He promises that he will buy me some of those cookies to try. Mmmm, Stella and Dora, two of my favorite people. As you can see here, I do occasionally stop with my duck and let Mommy get a spoonful or two in.

My Cousin Charlotte

Well, it happened again, Aunt Beth and Uncle David hit the sauce again. This time they did it at UD's informal office party which happened to be right across the street from my house.  M&D started the evening by dropping me at the Y for parents night out and met their friends Greg and Missy for dinner and Bacchus. Then we went home and walked across to the party and picked up Charlotte. Just like Aunt Beth has watched me before, M&D were taking Doodlebug for the evening because Emmy was staying at a friend's. This is a picture of Doodle and me playing with my toys. Doodle is sitting in my Bumbo seat and I just couldn't take my eyes off of her. We had such a great time, I wonder when she'll sleep over again?

My Sweet Ride

Ever since my brush with fame in the marathon the other weekend, I have become enamored of my jog-stroller. So whenever I know they have time, I ask M&D to take me for a ride. Twice in the last three days, they have strapped me into my eleventeen point restraining system (designed by NASCAR) and taken me out for a run. Usually it is with less fanfare than the other time, there's been no paparazzi stepping out to snap photos of me, but I still enjoy the brisk winter wind against my face. I'm looking forward to the days I can run with M&D instead of in the stroller.

My Tree

I got to see my first Christmas tree yesterday. M&D drove out to Jim's farm in Caroline County and drove back with it on the roof of Daddy's car. Then Daddy set it up in its stand and wrapped lights all around it.  This picture is of me sitting next to the tree, and the next one is Mommy holding me while showing off the tree. Immediately after taking these pictures, M&D hoisted the tree up and set it down on a table.  Something about me not being able to get to breakable ornaments and strings of lights once it's decorated. Not sure, didn't fully understand.