Happy Thanksgiving 2009

On our way to the Santa Parade

Chloe, Audrey, and Jack waving to all the cars in the parade

Chloe at Baby Oliver's pirate 1st birthday party
Turkey cupcake decorating party in Mommy and Me class
Our mommy and me gang: Bibi, Belinda, Juliana, Wyatt, Elijah, Chloe, and Christian

Coloring her headband at April's house Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving!

Playing with her dress up toys

We have been getting into the holiday spirit already! We went to a parade at the mall last weekend to welcome Santa and see the tree lighting ceremony. Chloe had fun with her friends waving to all of the cars and jumping around. She went to a pirate birthday party with a treasure hunt. In Mommy and Me class we frosted turkey cupcakes and sang turkey songs. Matt had the day off on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, so he got to attend Chloe's gymnastics class and then Sea World. My friend April invited us over for Thanksgiving this year and we had such a nice time and ate way too much food! We hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving too:)

28 months and 1 week

Chloe doing a "flamingo" in ballet class.

Stretching

Dancing with ballerina wands
Ballet class group photo with Ms. Felicia
Chloe's friend Evyn
Chloe's friends painting placemats with corn on the cob
Chloe and Mommy at ballet recital

Chloe is one busy girl this week! We had our ballet dress rehearsal this week, and I am so surprised at how much Chloe has improved over the last few months with listening to the teacher and participating in class. We just joined a real gymnastics class that Chloe loves. Since she has so much energy and loves to jump off our couches, we thought it would be good for her. We went to the park a few times this week since the weather has been beautiful and finally had some friends over for a playdate at the end of the week. The kids painted placemats and we made homemade butter. Chloe had her recital this week which was so adorable. She made us very proud of her:) Check out the video: Dance Recital Video The quality is not the best, but she is the one on the end. We took her to Chuck E Cheese to celebrate after and out to lunch. Today was the start of some of the holiday festivities around San Diego. We took Chloe to the Santa Parade and Tree Lighting at the mall near our house. They even had fake snow...not quite the same as Rochester:) Chloe is really excited for Christmas to come this year because she knows that she will be getting presents. She knows that someone named Santa will be bringing her a gift this year if she is a good girl. We asked her what she wants and she says that she wants a baby doll, even she has 6 of them already. We are definitely sad to be missing Christmas in Rochester this year, but we are looking forward to celebrating Christmas morning with Chloe in our own house. More holiday festivities to come!

Weekend in Los Angeles (November 14-15)

We went away for the weekend to Los Angeles, about 2 hours from our house to Griffith Park (one of the largest urban parks). We took Chloe on a train ride, pony ride, carousel, hiked up Mount Hollywood, saw great views of the city and the Hollywood sign, and watched the sunset. We stayed over night and the next day went to Griffith Observatory and saw a planetarium show, and then had a picnic at the park. We had a great time! Unfortunately, I lost about half of my pictures of the trip:( But here are few that we took of the rides and our hike. Chloe's favorite thing was the train ride!

28 months old (November 13, 2009)

The week went by too fast and we are sad to have Nana leave so soon! We went to Balboa Park on a train ride with Nana, we took her to our preschool park group, art class, and Ikea. Nana got Chloe a new baby, named Alexis, but Chloe couldn't remember her name at first. She kept asking, "What is my baby's name again?" We also got Chloe some new kid roller skates!

27 months and 4 weeks (November 10, 2009)

Nana's here to visit! Chloe was so happy to have my mom here! We went to Little Italy for lunch one day, the Children's (Art) Museum in San Diego and rode the trolley. We took Nana to our Mommy and Me class, and then Sea World another day. Chloe is now completely potty trained. She doesn't want to wear pull-ups at night anymore so she is wearing panties all the time now! She goes to on the potty when we are out of the house anywhere. So glad to finally have her trained!

27 months and 3 weeks (November 3, 2009)

We celebrated Alissa and Nathan's birthday party/going away party at the park (they are moving back to Rochester). Chloe had fun digging for dinosaur fossils, going on a dinosaur egg hunt, and of course eating cake. We are going to miss our friends! Looking forward to my mom's visit this coming week!

Happy Halloween (October 31, 2009)

Halloween day we went for a nice hike in Julian (about an 1hour from our house), but it didn't quite feel like fall being 80 degrees outside. We went trick or treating at our friend's house at night. It was so much fun seeing all the kids dressed up together. Once we took the kids out, she was a little shy about trick or treating, but then she realized she was getting candy in her basket. She only managaged to eat a little package of M & M's and a lollipop and forgot that she had any other candy.