Christmas time!

Waiting around for Christmas was hard, but dad found ways to keep me entertained. Here we are showing off our hats. I like to imitate just about everything I see and hear. When dad has his hat on, I yell "hat" and wear mine too.

I left Santa a cookie and milk with a note this year. When I woke up the next morning, half the cookie was gone, the milk completely gone, and a picture of Santa himself was left signed by the big guy. Plus some cool gifts too.
Then it was present time and boy was I excited! At first, I just wanted to pass out gifts but then when I realized you get to rip into the paper, I wanted to rip them all. I went to 3 Christmas parties so by the time the 3rd one rolled around, my gifts were "mine" and everyone elses gifts were "mine" too. (I am really good at saying the word "mine".)
See how well I can rip into them? I got clothes and a few toys. My sister got some neat things, which are now mine as well.
Mom and I made dessert to take for our dinner. I sampled every layer of the chocolate dessert. I can now say "lick" and everytime I see mom with a spatuala, I yell "lick" whether it is something good or not.
Chocolate overdose. :) I love the holidays!

Holiday fun

It is almost my second Christmas so this year I got to help decorate the tree. Dad was at work so mom and I had a lot of work to do. She hung the heavy breakable ones while I handled the others. These snowflakes are cool! Now that I know how to put them on, I like to take them off and put them on over and over.
Grandma and Grandpa Kloke came to visit for a few days. Grandpa and I had a lot of bonding time on our walks. We bundle up with coat, hat, gloves, the works! He doesn't mind that I go slow and walk into every driveway and pick up every rock along the way. And Gourmet likes my slow pace too!
For the holidays I have been very into drawing and coloring. I say the word "paper" and get into my booster seat at the table and mom gets my stuff. I draw and color and put stickers in all kinds of places! Grandpa helped me create a Christmas tree masterpiece with colors and stickers for ornaments.
Yesterday was the most fun for arts and crafts. I went to the shop Totally Crazed where I got to paint my own ceramic tile. Last year I only got to do a footprint on the tile - it felt funny to have the bottom of my foot covered in paint! (My sister had to do that this year.)

I love to say the word "yellow" so most of the color on my tile is yellow. But mom suggested I do blue, red, green, and a little purple. That way it is colorful. Can't wait to pick it up after it is fired!

Did I mention Santa was there too? I refused to sit on his lap, or even stand by him for that matter. If I wanted to go around the table, I went all the way to the other end of the store - I wasn't getting near that bearded fellow! So mom didn't get a picture of me and him this year like last year. Maybe in the future I will try it again.