Merry X'mas

It's hard not to feel the Christmas sprit when the little one started singing "Jingle Bell" and "We wish you a Merry Christmas" since weeks before Christmas. She always ended the "Jingle Bell" song with a powerful tone of "HEY", so loud that it almost burst our eardrum. But hey, that's how the Christmas spirit hit you, well I meant us, at home.
Elle woke up to a magical Christmas morning, escatic about Santa left more presents for her while she was asleep. After breakfast, she rushed to the tree couldn't wait opening all the presents. With Oohs and Aahs admist the sounds of tearing papers, she was over the moon for all the toys Santa gave her.
She couldn't wait changing into her princess outfit, swirling her magic wand in the air turning papa into a beast and mama into a princess just like her.
The sushi cooking set seemed to bring out the best in humor. Hin chuckled, "WHAT! SUSHI!" when seeing it unfolded. Elle was a great iron chef praticing cutting the sushi with a giant chop knife.
Elle was so excited about our neighbor across the street gave her a Christmas gift. It's a gumball machine which she called it as "My Trophy". She scurried around finding her money box so that she could put coin inside her "trophy" getting the candies out.
Our little princess chef cooking up a storm in her tinkerbell kitchen. She prepared a whole spread of yummilicious for the pinic.

Holiday Season Frenzy

There had been a lot of baking going on in our home during the holiday season. On top of baking, we had fun making Christmas decorations, putting up our Christmas trees and sprucing them up with ornaments.
These two little girls got together making some yummy cookies. Well, they were more interested in playing together though. After a little while, they fled off and left the moms doing most of the baking. When the cookies came out of the oven, they kept popping into the kitchen snatching the cookies off the table.
Making gingerbread house with graham crackers! Man, it's a pain to have all the pieces held together while decorating it. The house kept collapsing. Lesson learned: "Glue" all pieces together and let it set a day before decorating. Our little decorator couldn't resist squeezing icing into her mouth!
Our gingerbread man family. How sweet of Elle asking mama to make one for her pink bear too.
Elle invited her friends over celebrating Christmas together. Before the party, I put the presents under the tree during her nap time. It took her a while to discover the presents after waking up from her nap. The moment she took a glimpse of the tree, she jumped on her feet pointing her finger at the tree and shrilled in joy, "Mama! See! There's something under the tree!". "Santa left the present for me and my friends when I was asleep.", she said.

43 month olds

Dear Elle,

Snow! Snow! Let it snow! You dig in the snow giggling happily as if you were a polar bear in your last life. Watching you laying in the snow shoveling white fluffies inside the bucket reminds mama of summertime you were on the beach.
You jump, stomp, messing the smooth blanket of snow in our front yard. Oh boy, it's hilarious to see you rolling on the cold icy driveway and inching on your tummy like an inchworm.
You and mama teamed up had a snow ball fight against papa. You barked, "Destroy!" as we chased after our target.
That day mama asked you what else you wanted for Christmas. You blurted out a whole slew of things, wishing for a pink heater, a pink kitchen, pink windows, pink mama, pink papa, and pink baby. All PINK!
When you need comfort, you say: "I need a huggie."

Love,
Mama

Candy Cane Hunt

Candy canes everywhere, on the tree, grass and bench. Ready, Set, Go! The kids were really fast picking up all the candy canes.
Hopped on the holiday trolley riding around the downtown.
Hopped down at the Santa Village. Making a holiday bag, decorating a gingerbread cookie and writing a letter to Santa Claus.

Mama's birthday

This year, the daddy and daughter baked a cake for me, smothered with whipped cream, and topped it with raspberries. It tasted real good! I was cracked up when Hin said he was going to take a short cut to write "B-day" instead of "Birthday".

Thanksgiving

Elle thanked for her pink bear, blue dog, yellow elephant, mama, papa, herself and Spring because Spring is her birthday!

42 month olds

Dear Elle,

The weather was still warm enough to play in your favorite lady bug playground with new friends you met there. In the summertime, you always asked to go to the ladybug playground. One day papa gave you an excuse of did not remember how to get there and you said, "Don't worry. Use the GPS. It'll show you.

One night, we had octopus for dinner. You pointed at the octopus saying, "This is octopus family. There're baby, mama, papa, Mia, Aruth and Napath!". Then, you put one inside your mouth saying, "I'm eating Mia! Yum Yum Yum". Next, you picked two up and stuffed them both inside your mouth telling us you were eating Aruth and Napath together. Guess what happenned then? You almost got chocked!"
This year you were as cautious as last year when meething the Santa Claus. Last year you wondered why Santa had no hair and this year you asked why the Santa doesn't have mouth. Mama was surprised you asked for a strawberry shortcake box from Santa. Before we left, you gave Santa a sticker and put it on his watch. You were a little sad, just like last year, saying Santa forgot to give you the present.

A little while later, we saw Santa coming outside meeting the kids. You're curious if Santa still had the sticker on his watch. You went over sitting on his lap and Santa showed you his watch and thanked you for it. Mama asked you why you asked for a strawberry shortcake box and not other toys, you said, "First, I need to have a strawberry shortcake box to put my money. Then only I can use my money to buy all the toys I want.".
Oh, remember that funny night we had blowing up lots of little balloons and rubbing them against our hair builing up static to stick onto our hair? We walked around with little balloons on our head laughing hysterically how silly we looked.

You love all the funny, silly Eric Herman's songs on YouTube. The Duck Song and its sequals, the elephant song, and Dance like an animal are your favorites. We were so silly dancing hilariously along with the song "Dance like an animal" again and again.

Love,
Mama