Our trip to the Holyoke Children's Museum

Jason didn't have to work this Monday so we decided to have a fun family outing to the Holyoke Children's Museum. Isabel had a blast and of course she hated to leave. Her favorite by far was the sand table. There's a pendulum in the middle that makes designs and there are lots of shovel and cups for the kids to play with the sand. I thought it was pretty cool too!
They had a little town set up there with a grocery store, a diner, and most importantly to Isabel, a vet clinic with tons of stuffed animals to doctor. She picked out her puppy and took very good care of him.

She tried to take him for a walk, but decided that he was tired and needed to go to sleep in his cage. This part was definitely her second favorite of the whole place. She also loved the bubble maker which let the kids make gigantic bubbles. They have a huge climbing structure also that Isabel kept wanting to play on, but then she'd get intimidated and want out again. Maybe next time.
This is just a random pic taken after playing in the snow. She was patiently waiting for hot chocolate and I just wanted to take a pic of her pink cheeks. She gets these perfectly round pink circles on her cheeks when she's out in the cold. I thought it was pretty cute. The only thing that will entice her in from outside is hot chocolate. I guess she takes after me, I was exactly the same as a kid. I'm so glad she loves the outdoors so much. Now I just can't wait to get skis on her!

Some Christmas pics, a little late

I never got around to blogging about Christmas, so here's some pics finally. We went to church with my family on Christmas Eve, which was nice, but it's completely impossible to keep my kid quiet for even an hour long service. Every time I told her she needed to be very quiet she responded with rather loud "Okay mommy, I'll be quiet." Oh well, what are ya gonna do? On Christmas morning we did our own present exchange at our house then headed off to my parents' house for breakfast and more presents. Then after that we headed to my Gramma's house for lunch and more presents. It was a great day, although very exhausting.
Here we are all cleaned up for church on Christmas Eve. Aren't we a cute family?!
This was Isabel's favorite present. She still loves cooking us meals every day.
I got Rowan this tool set and hard hat, I think he looks adorable in it. Notice Isabel already trying to steal the tools from him before he even gets them all out of the packaging.
Too cute! Isabel and Rowan were having a blast playing Great-Gramma's organ. And here is Isabel all passed out on Great-Gramma's couch after all the excitement. She just reached her limit and lay there for about an hour. Such a big day for such a little tyke! What a fun Christmas we had!