Eating with a Spoon

Finley loves to be in control. She has started getting frustrated eating from a spoon when we are feeding her, she much prefers to pick things up herself, but for some things, this just isn't possible. We let her try some pear yogurt with a spoon and she did wonderfully! It just takes her about tens times as long to eat by herself, but she is getting really good at it. Such an independent little girl.

Merry Christmas! Day Two.

The day after Christmas we headed over to Aunt Rose and Uncle Ferrel's house for another celebration. We got to exchange gifts with Finley's cousins, Faith, Zachary and Joshua. We had a great time! Faith gave us one of her favorite books as a kid from the Biscuit book series. Finley also got an extra special animal blanket made by G-Ma, just like the one she had made for Clifton as a kid.
Finley and her animal blanket, some of the squares are the same material as Clifton's animal blanket.

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

Finley had an amazing Christmas! She started the morning off with some Shipley's Donuts, a family tradition, well, not the Shipley's part, but I had a coupon. Then it was onto the presents. Oh the presents!

Finley got so many amazing gifts, the most amazing being her play kitchen that my dad made. Part one arrived for Christmas, the stove. The sink and refrigerator will be making their appearances in a couple months. She really loves it! She also had a great time putting all the felt food that my mom made for her in and out of the kitchen.

We got her a couple Little People sets. Little People were my favorite toy as a child, so I wanted to share them with her.

Finley got a fantastic musical table from her Uncle Al and Aunt Sharon and a pretty doll from her Uncle Larry and Aunt Joan.

Finley had her tongue stuck out all day, no clue why!

Christmas Eve

After a long day of present wrapping and cookie baking, we headed to Kam's for a Chinese feast. Finley loved the crab and corn soup as well as the steamed pork dumplings. She has been less than enthusiastic about Chinese food in the past, so this was quite a pleasant surprise. After we got home, Finley wrote a note to Santa and left him some of the Christmas cookies. Then, she opened one present, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. We read the story together and followed it up with The Night Before Christmas. Finley headed for bed with visions of sugar plums, at a very late time for her. It was past 8 pm!