29 months old

All dressed up for a birthday party

Being silly for the camera

Playing at the Science Center
Hanging out with her buddy Jack at the Village Walk Holiday Festival
She got her face painted. She picked out a gingerbread man:)
We met Santa, but she was not too happy.
We went to the Nutcracker Ballet in Balboa Park.
Eating all the icing from our gingerbread house.
Decorating a gingerbread house with Daddy.

All of us with our finished gingerbread house and our Christmas tree.

This time of year is our favorite! We have been keeping busy with holiday events around town. This past week it rained, so we spent most of our time indoors, going to our classes,the library, and even went to the science museum one day. Chloe picked out a purple rock to buy from the museum gift shop that she bought with her own money from her piggy bank. She was so excited about her new rock! I took her to her first IMAX movie about the ocean creatures and she really enjoyed it, except the parts where fish were eaten by other bigger fish. She would cry every time it would happen, and think she just got used to it by the end of the movie. We braved the rain one day and went to a family holiday festival where she got her face painted, did crafts, and we attempted to see Santa. We got close enough to him so she could ask for a new dolly for Christmas (she already picked out her name. Her name will be Elizabeth) but she still will not sit on his lap. One night the Nutcracker Ballet was on TV and she was just mesmerized by it, so we took her to the real ballet. She loved all of the music, the dolls, the ballerinas, mice, and the kids dressed as candy. We are going to try to make it a yearly tradition. We had fun decorating a gingerbread house together and of course Chloe's favorite part is licking the icing.