The Grahams

Callie has learned to recognize and spell her own name! Way to go girl!!!

I'm realizing how far behind I am on the blog....oops! Sorry! After Thanksgiving we had a friend of mine do some family pictures for us....here is some of my favorites!

This holiday season has been a bit of a blur....enjoying as much family time as possible! Since I have been so behind, this post might be a bit longer than normal.....stick with me. We kept ourselves very busy through the whole month of December. I tried very hard to be super organized (somewhat successfully) and did an activity advent calendar with Callie this year. Each day we did something special - from a picnic dinner in front of the Christmas tree to playing in the snow with our cousins! We ended up searching for trees on the coldest day ever.....when we left the house, it was 18 degrees. I'm not sure who complained more.....Callie or Preston! I think they both wanted to just cut the first tree down that we saw but I refused! Callie decided to cooperate with the promise of hot chocolate, it took Preston a bit more to agree. We then headed to the local zoo to feed the reindeer some apples. Callie LOVED this! She threw those apples to every single reindeer that she...

I've been a bit behind on the posting, I seem to forget how busy work makes me! Fall is one of my favorite times of the year, so we have been making the most of it!  We enjoyed a fun morning at the pumpkin patch. Choosing just the right ones! She refused to look at the camera :-) Hanging with papa We then headed home to carve. Our little girl was, of course, all about the goop and had her hands inside the pumpkins, flinging seeds all over. (Sorry these pictures are not in any order) She found all the pumpkins in our house and lined them up. She wouldn't let us take the pumpkins outside, we had to wait until she was asleep :-) The finished projects! Callie helping me draw the face on her pumpkin The goop! Digging around to find all that gooey stuff We then headed to Amy's on Halloween to enjoy some neighborhood trick or treating. It was so fun to see all the kids and their excitement, we were pretty much running from house to ho...

I've been a bit behind on posting here, so I am playing a bit of catch up. We recently spent a wonderful weekend up at Hoodsport to visit with the graham side of the family. Callie got to spend some undivided attention with her aunt Katy and aunt Liz.....and she, or course, was in heaven!  Snuggling with aunt Liz 

Okay, I went for it this weekend....maybe not for the best reason (we ran out of diapers and I decided I am done buying them for now!) but we did it! We had 4 days for (for the most part) staying at home, so we decided to ditch the diapers and go for big girl underwear. The first day went pretty well and each day she has been getting better and better. We had our first day of no accidents so we went out and she got to choose out a special pack of new unders (she picked Mickey Mouse)

Callie LOVES to sing! I was able to tape her singing on of her daycare songs about an apple tree. I love that she stops to correct herself :-)