Learning through life

So, I am posting several pictures of Nicole learning during our day to day activities. Sadly, I don't have a picture to post of Nicole eating her yogurt today. She figured out how to scoop the yogurt out of the cup with a spoon and put it in her mouth. However, most of the yogurt landed on her and the highchair tray. She then painted with the yogurt. We had a BLAST!!!

While playing outside, I decided to pull weeds out of the planter. Nicole had other plans for the weeds though. She would walk to the bucket, pull out a handful and put them back into the planter. She kept this up for about 15 minutes.

Here are the weeds that Nicole put back for me.

We have also decided to give Nicole her first chore: sweeping! Everytime we go outside she drags the broom along with her. She has been doing this for 3 days now.

On Wednesday we went to visit my parents while Nick was doing electrical work at Valley. Nicole learned the basics about running her own business. She found out that there is alot of paperwork involved.

However, playing with the stamps is quite a bit of fun!!

What can I say? Like mother, like daughter! She 'read' 3 books like this!

Merry Christmas!

This Christmas, we decided to keep things simple and spend time as a family. On Christmas Eve, we visited Nick's grandma Nancy at her home.

John 3:16 is even written on the bottom!

 

Nick and I got 2 sets of movie tickets, candy, and popcorn!

Next, we went to have dinner with Nick's family. We had a great evening spending time with his grandparents and Nicole was able to play with 3 of her aunts and her uncle.

Christmas morning we went to church (my parents joined us) and then opened gifts and ate lunch. We spent the rest of the day playing with our new goodies (okay, we all played with Nicole's toys) and then joined family for dinner.

Nicole decided to sneak away and open one gift before church.

Look at all those gifts!

Nicole loves her new doll! She loves her so much that the doll received her first scratch.

Grandma Joan is teaching Nicole how to feed her baby.

Nicole got Nick a poster that has the word 'love' written in weapons. I will get it wrong, but I am pretty sure the weapons are as follows: L=handgun, O=grenade, V=pocketknife, E=rifle (or some other big gun). Nicole sure knows how to pick good gifts!

Nicole, the amazing gift-giver, gave another good gift! I got a new Snowbaby for my collection! I was so surprised because they have become hard to find, so I hadn't been expecting one.

Isn't it cute?!

Nicole got building blocks from Kendra, Drew, and Samuel. She loves to knock down the towers that we build.

Our annual family picture. I had been hoping for one at church in front of their well-decorated tree, but Nicole chose to nap during that time and we didn't have the heart to wake her.

Nicole's first Snowbaby!

A toy from Aunt Hannah

Before we got the toy from Hannah out of the box, Nicole gave it a kiss...ouch!

We love our date nights!!! (Not pictured: two more movie tickets and a g.c. for Chili's)

An awesome frame from Nick's parents!

Carrying on the tradition that my mom started: a new ornament for every year.

Poor Piglet! My friend Sarah gave Nicole little Winnie the Pooh toys, she loves to knock them off of our towers!

We pray that everyone had a wonderful time with family and friends as you celebrated Christ's birth!

Happy Halloween!!

Okay, I know I am behind, but here are pictures from our Halloween. We went to Valley Christian Church for their Fall Festival and had a ton of fun! Our theme this year was Superman. Enjoy the pictures!

 Yes, even our pumpkin followed the theme!

We hope you enjoyed the pictures and had a wonderful Halloween!! We already have our theme picked out for next year...............but our lips are sealed!