The New Homes

After bath time the other day the girls climbed into the cupboards and Lilly called them their new homes. Vivi climbed in and said "night, night" and "bye, bye" before closing the door.

Advent Gifts Are Fun

Grandma Ona and Papa put in some major labor of love and made the girls impressive an advent gift string and they have really enjoyed opening a present every day. Most days Lilly takes both gifts and Vivi is left with the wrap and ribbons. So far that works this year but Vivi is starting to get wise to it...

Here is Lilly posing with the exciting presents.

Basket Cases

These little girls are SO silly and starting to play together more and more now. They both became obsessed with getting in and out of the basket the other night.

Silly little girls.

Sweet little miss Vivi.

Santa Pictures 2011

The girls enjoyed seeing Santa and did well waiting in the long line.

At first Vivi wasn't thrilled with seeing Santa... but they did pose sweetly with Santa.

Vivi waiting sweetly and patiently.

Vivi walked everywhere, said "Hi" to everyone and really enjoyed the "bub-bos"

Christmas Family Pictures

We had some cute family pictures taken for the Holidays. The girls love their fancy Christmas dresses but Vivi was not much into having her picture taken.

Christmas Tree Hunt

We had a great tree hunt with the Wagoner side of the family. The girls loved it and Lilly was anxious to get a tree at her house.

Vivi searching for a tree.

Vivi posing with Mama.

Lilly checking out the possible trees.

Lilly being silly.

A family picture.

The girls posing with a baby tree.

Decorating For Christmas

The girls have been very excited about decorating for Christmas this year.



Lilly organized the snowflakes.

Vivi stuffed the singing frosty in the drawer.. mostly to keep it away from her sister. After she hid it she said "no sissy." They both try to keep things from one another. Especially the singing toys and the baby jesus from the nativity scene.

Being silly in front of the tree.

Big smiles.

Posing by the tree after decorating it.

Vivian's contribution to the tree decorations... a reciept she found.

Thanksgiving Pictures.. almost a month later...

With the holidays coming up and Vivian on the move it has been difficult to keep up with posting pictures. So here are Thanksgiving pictures.. finally!

Vivian learning to walk.

Lilly, Cousin Jade and Aunt Nikki.

Vivi trying to join the big girls picture.

Thanksgiving Continued

We had a great Thanksgiving with the Wagoner side of the family too. Here are pictures of the girls enjoying more holiday fun.

Vivian working hard to go down the stairs.

Being silly on the stairs.

Our family Thanksgiving picture, what silly cute girls!

Kind Of Playing Together

For one of the first times they girls actually started playing together a little bit. They are really cute being silly together. Lilly is pretty patient with how aggressive and pushy Vivi can be and Vivi thinks everything Lilly does is awesome.  They are also wearing their darling cupcake outfits, what sweet little girls!

Princess and The Frog Movie Night

We had a family movie night this weekend. Since we were watching Princess and The Frog she wanted to dress up as Tiana and Vivi wanted to dress up too.

A pre-movie princess parade.

Watching the movie. Lilly was glued... Vivian on the other hand was on the move the whole time!

I Want To Go To Hawaii.. tonight

Lilly came home from school on Thursday and said she wanted to go to Hawaii... that night... Her best friend at school went over the summer. I told her maybe we will go someday in the summer but she insisted that we could go that night, all we had to do was go to the airport and get on a plane and go.

When asked what she wanted to do in Hawaii her ambitious plans included: playing and sleeping.

Over the course of the evening she pretended the kitchen was Hawaii and rode her bike there often. Then she decided flying there was better. She put on my wings from Halloween and flew to Hawaii. What a cute, silly little girl!

Footie Pajamas!

Lilly was jealous of Vivi wearing warm footie pajamas every night so when I saw the bigger toddler footies for sale we bought a supply. The girls love wearing their footie pajamas around the house any chance they get.

Wrestling over blankies and toys. Sharing is not in Vivi's vocabulary yet.

Our cute little snuggle bug.

Our Little Ballerina

For the past month or so we have been taking Lilly to Saturday dance classes at a community center. It is called Ballet: Where Dreams Begin and it really is ballet basics, not just a dance around to music kind of class. Her teacher is a ballerina who performs in shows in town and she is more strict than I expected for a class for 3 year olds. Lilly is finally looking the part with her ballerina clothes and shoes.

Getting the diva treatment of having her ballerina shoes tied.

Dancing during free choice dance time.

Doing a ballet move of some kind.. I should know the name..

Posing for a picture.

New Curtains

Thanks to Grandmommy Lawrence Vivian has some curtains in her room now! They are beautiful, girly and so much better than the plain blackout shade she has had. She really likes them, especially the ruffles!

Cute Birthday Coat

Vivi adores this new coat she got for her birthday from the Lawrences in Oklahoma. She gets lots of attention when she is wearing it and will voice a very sad "No" when it is time to take it off. Here she is showing off how cute she is in her little peacoat.

On a side note I had no idea the mat at Lillys dance class was that dirty.. yuck!