Christmas Play

MiMi and PawPaw brought 2 of Leslie's cousins to come spend some time with us after Christmas. This is Cole and Holly, 2 of Barry's brother's kiddos...


Leslie got a Dora Vet kit for Christmas, so her and Cole decided to give Belle a check-up...

Uncle Joe and Aunt Clara gave Leslie this tutu with purse and sunglasses. This is her right before we went to Chick-fil-a. We made her leave the glasses and purse in the car, but the tutu stayed on through dinner. I've been waiting 3 years for Leslie to want to wear play clothes out in public, and this was the day my dreams came true. I think there is nothing cuter than seeing a little girl shopping at Target in full princess attire! Hopefully, I will have many more of these days in the future.

Princess Leslie

Leslie had so many presents and events, that we had to spread out the festivities over several nights. Here she is opening her Snow White princess gown...



She obviously already had her pajama's on for the night, but she immediately stood up and pulled her britches down wanting to put it on!



So, here is my beautiful Princess Leslie...



And here I am with her royal highness...

I love that God blessed me with girls! I wonder if they make this dress in my size??

Christmas

Barry and I opened gifts to each other Christmas Eve after putting Leslie down because we didn't know when we would get another opportunity. Here's another picture of my big present...




Here is the bounty Santa left for Leslie. She got a baby doll and stroller, as requested, along with some other nursery stuff and, of course, a cookie cake:)




This was by far the best and easiest Christmas morning we've had since Leslie's birth. My mom, step-dad, and brother all piled up and came over to our house to do presents! It's always hard to get up and ready and over to my mom's to do Christmas, and then packing everything up and driving 2 1/2 hours to get to Barry's grandmother's by 2 for lunch! And this year, we had the added obstacle that I was up all night doing breathing treatments with Leslie. She always like to try and get pneumonia during the holidays! It was a huge blessing that everyone was willing to come to us- of course it helped that my mom never even got a tree up this year:)

Christmas Eve Pictures

Here's my sweet girl in front of the tree before we left for church...


Here's me with my big present...


And here's Leslie in front of the Santa outside my grandparents' house...

Holiday Shiners

Being a toddler is tough. We were over at my grandmother's house the week before Christmas and Leslie was just playing next to a living room chair. Then she just falls and hits her left eye on the side table. Here is a picture a couple days later of that shiner...



And then, the next day at lunch, she's bouncing around the kitchen acting kind of hyper while Barry and I finish up our lunches, and BAM! She hits her other eye on the edge of the table. You can see where it's starting to bruise...


It made for some memorable Christmas pictures:) Crazy girl.

Pre-Christmas Celebrations

Here is a picture of us at a Christmas party hosted by our friends, the Knights...




They had Santa come and Leslie was super excited that he brought her a present...

Here we are doing our little present exchange a different night with the Knights. Leslie got a Waterbaby which she named "Pink Baby"

Barry picked out a punching bag for Parker, but the kiddos just loved rolling on it and wrestling with it and ultimately, resting on it...

More fun in the leaves

Here's some fun pictures Barry took one afternoon while he and Leslie were playing in the abundance of leaves between our house and the neighbors...




She was wearing her 2T jeans so she could get good and dirty, but Barry wouldn't keep them pulled up. So, most of the pictures have her panties hanging out the back, but at least it's not a diaper! She spent at least 20 mins just sitting in the leaves "crunching" them. It's her favorite pastime with most anything... especially Goldfish crackers. We finally found something she wouldn't get in trouble for crunching!



Here she is walking through the leaves. They were almost knee deep on her.




And here she is with all the leaves piled on her...



She really liked gathering them up and throwing them on herself or Daddy...