The Holidays!

Hey Graham Fans - Working on keeping the blog up to date. Tough to do with school, swim lessons, playing with all my new toys. Have I mentioned I am taking swim lessons? I am in the second session of lessons. The first week was a little rough i.e. lots of tears, but I have been okay with it since then. I don't like to get my ears wet - those tubes seem to still be in my ears. I am getting more comfortable in the water each week. I am sure I will be swimming laps before you know it (in the rec pool that is!).

In my last post, I think I mentioned we went to visit Santa, but I didn't want anything to do with him. Well we ran into him again. We go to the shop party at Cousin Steve's shop. Santa seems to show up - sometimes in his Santa suit and sometimes in his hanging around the house clothes. This year he just had regular clothes. He talked to me. I told him I wanted a Mack (from the Cars movie). I kept asking Mom who that was and she said he looked familiar, but couldn't place him. Well I knew who he was! Speaking of the shop party, boy is there a lot of stuff I could do 'work' with! It is so much fun to pretend I am working on 'stuff'! Plus there is always a small dog there. Sissy and I really liked to pet that dog. He is a nice little dog and he likes us to pet him. I think he liked us petting him more than the other little girl.

We had a couple of playdates in December. We finally had a playdate with our Brighter Beginnings friends Callan and Declan. They had a new baby brother. Caroline liked the baby, I just liked playing with all their toys! Then the week before Christmas we had a playdate with a bunch of our preschool friends. I always like to go to other people's houses so I can play with their toys.

Well on to the big topic of my post - CHRISTMAS! It actually got off to a rough start. We got up early to go to Kansas City a couple of days before Christmas. We had stopped at Casey's for donuts, but had to run home to get something Mom forgot. We were about to leave for the 2nd time when that donut came back up. Needless to say we went back in the house, changed, and headed back out. I still didn't feel the best, but I didn't get sick again. We hung out at Nanny's in the afternoon and then went to Benjamin's house. He plays basketball in his living room! We had a lot of fun! The next day we made cookies for Santa at Nanny's, then had lunch at Grandpa's. We also got to open our Christmas presents from Grandpa. Later we went to church to celebrate Jesus birthday. We went back to Nanny's and celebrated with Uncle Brad, Aunt Lisa, Benjamin, Joe, Nan, and Uncle Doug and Aunt Cheri. It was so much fun, but it sure wore me out!So Dad had the flu while we were in Kansas City and Mom got struck with the bug on the way home. Fortunately neither one let it interfere with Christmas, particularly once we got home to see what Santa had brought us! The one thing I have been talking about is a Mack from Cars. Santa did not let me down!!

Santa also must know that I like toys with wheels because I got a tractor and baler, and some Matchbox cars. The big guy outdid himself with the big gift for me and Sis -

Mom was the photographer for the pics of the Gator. She really just wanted to go in and lay down, but she was a sport!

Believe it or not Christmas was not quite over! Grandma came up to celebrate with us which meant Uncle Greg came over too. More wheels for me! Uncle Greg gave Caroline some Backyardigan DVD's. We are big fans of the Backyardigans so her gift was really like a gift for me. Honestly I like to play with the babydoll she got and the doll house and her puzzle, but she also likes to play with MY toys too. S-h-a-r-i-n-g. We are working on it! :)

That how our holidays went down! Hope you all enjoyed yours!

Another catch up

Hey Graham Fans - Long time since my last post. We had some computer issues for awhile and then the holidays were here, well life was just busy! Hopefully I can start to get you all caught up on life in the Bagby house.

I hate to admit how long it has been but I have to share my Halloween adventures so that reveals the LONG gap in posts. Halloween is definitely fun. We went to Living History Farms again this year. The weather was pretty good, we got there before it got to busy, so it made for a fun evening! We even rode on the horse drawn wagon! Sis and I thought that was pretty cool! They have a place you can roast marshmallows too - candy, marshmallows, and popcorn what is there not to like! Of course on Beggar's Night we went around the neighborhood. Going up to people's houses made me kind of nervous, but I survived. Caroline tuckered out so we didn't get excessive amounts of candy. I was happy to come home so I could pass out candy!

We also made a late fall trip to the zoo on a nice Monday. Some of the animals were already inside for the year, but we still enjoyed it. We had our picnic lunch as always which we look forward to having. We love picnic lunches!

Caroline attended her first Drake football game. It was my second game. We had fun. Dad bought us M&M's and some Sprite. It wasn't very warm which must have been why Spike the Bulldog wasn't there. The Mascot was there and we high-fived him. Even though the stadium wasn't packed we sure parked a long ways away! The fresh air was good for us I guess (Mom always hopes that will make us sleep better!)

While we haven't gotten much snow, we did get out and play in it when we had the chance. Mommy said it was the perfect snow for building a snowman and making snowballs. Our snowman was small and had melted by the end of the day. It was fun to get to play in it. Mom pulled us each around the yard on the sled. We got out the shovels and pushed some snow around. Fun stuff and it wasn't too cold. Overall we have been lucky that it hasn't been overly cold this season. We manage to get outside regularly.With Christmas coming, we went to Bass Pro Shop to see Santa. There was no line so we got right in, but I wanted nothing to do with him. Caroline cried. Mom held her so they actually got a picture taken. I was off with Daddy checking out everything else. Bass Pro Shop is fun to visit, but I didn't need to sit on Santa's lap!

Thanksgiving we went to Grandma's house. I got to ride the four wheeler with Dad and the tractor with Uncle Greg. Sis and I played with the tractor and the other toys. Kayla and Sam played with us. As usual Grandma read her books to us. Caroline loves the puppy book! Grandma read it over and over and over. Caroline had a cold and ultimately an ear infection so she didn't sleep that well. Even when she is healthy, she isn't a big fan of the pack and play!

One Saturday in December Dad decided we would like to go ice skating. It was cold, but I was willing to give it a try. Dad really just pushed and pulled me along. I didn't want to stop. Mommy doesn't know how to ice skate so she didn't put ice skates on. She did walk Caroline around the rink once. Caroline was done and ready to take her skates off.