Fairy kisses, Be Mine!

Valentine Kisses from Liesl.

Today she is a woodland fairy and yesterday she was Minnie Mouse (I always have to be Mickey).

Electrifying!

Winter in Minnesota. Time to turn up the humidifier a few notches eh!

You can be bob the builder too!

Auntie Amanda brought Liesl a hard hat and goggles to go with her tool set. I think the hat is particularly lovely on Amanda.

Girlfriends are neat!

Last week was super cold -50 wind chill and school was even cancelled. This was the perfect reason to call Isla and Erin to come over since Erin is a school teacher we were thrilled to call them up on a Friday morning and have them to tea. Erin reads a story to our little Princess Liesl and little Princess Isla.

Liesl and Isla showed us some amazing dance moves and gorgeous dresses.

Tea and fairy cakes time! We so enjoyed having tea together (moms got coffee). The girls are getting so good at pretending and playing that Erin and I actually had some adult conversation instead of refereeing the girls.

So the girls don't only play dress up and drink tea. Another day, this time at the Pep's house, the girls had a great game of hockey in the basement! It is so fun to have girlfriends.

Silent Night - a la Liesl and green monkey

Liesl loves to sing. She learned Silent Night as well as many other holiday songs. We have tried to capture them on tape and here is a pretty good one but you might have to crank the volume. Enjoy!

Fashion Show!!

We travelled out to PA for New Year's celebrating and to spend some time with Dave's family. I forgot the camera so I have to get photos from other people. However these hats were a gift from Dave's Mom. She knows I have a love for all things vintage or antique. These hats are hand made by one of Liesl's great great great aunts (I think, maybe great grandmother, I better find out). So she decided she wanted to have a fashion show. Some of these photos I am floored at how much she resembles my childhood photos!

Snow and more snow!

Liesl is loving her new skiis (they have frosty on them). We "skiied" up and down the block a couple of times the other night.

Dave gave us matching aprons. Don't we look the picture of domesticity!!!

If you turn your back on the mixer with whipped cream in it this is what you find!

Halloween is so fun with these little ones all around! We had a little gathering of friends who don't get many trick or treaters. We got around 150 again this year. Liesl was a witch this year. She tried out the broom and the rake and settled on the bike for witchy transportation! We had a great time peeking out the windows, screaming TRICK OR TREATERS!!!!!, and just hanging out. Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Guts!

Liesl has loved this book from the moment she could see past her nose. She chose our pumpkin faces by picking out of the book.

Pumpkin guts are truly endless fun. Liesl was pretending that the guts were worms (she pretends everything is a worm). So our pumpkin guts worm would go to work in the pumpkin and go grocery shopping in the other pumpkin etc.... She is developing an amazing imagination and pretend plays all the time.

These are a little spooky. I was monkeying around with the twilight setting. Getting a 2 year old to hold still long enough to let the picture capture is really hard. These were the best ones.