Good Thing for Two Stockings!

No post last night because it was just TOO busy,

hectic and fun with all the family being around. 

Tonight was the same thing again,

so I'm keeping this post short.

Let's just say that we dug out Piper's two

'first' Christmas stockings from last year

and decided to use them again this year.

It's a darn good thing that there were two,

since she does have two feet!

;-)

More Christmas photos tomorrow!

xo

Putting on stocking #1. 

And putting on stocking #2.

Yep!
It's a good thing there were two!

Not quite understanding why she was hanging her 'socks' on the fireplace,
but learning that things aren't always what they seem to be!

Tree Decorating with the Family

THIS is what Christmas is all about. 

All four grandparents and one great-grandparent

have made Piper one HAPPY little girl!

xo

Hanging the first ornaments.

Piper would only hand them on the lights!!! 

Helping Poppy to choose the next one.

More focus on the tree and less on the child please!
There is work to be done. 

That's more like it!

Let's sit on our little brother or sister and decorate the tree!

NOT Santa's Little Helper.  

Mickey Mouse wannabe!  

Nanny "Gandy's" right hand 'man'. 

Nana decorating Piper instead of the tree.
Piper didn't like having the garland wrapped around her.
I think it tickled.

"Ivory" the Snowman

I don't know why,

but Piper LOVES to play with bars of Ivory soap.

She discovered it when we were unpacking

and moving into our new house.

Ever since,

she knows where they are stored

and will often go and get a few to play with?!?

Today she sat down to play with them next to Blue.

The next thing I know,

she is stacking them on top of each other

and saying "snowman"!

The cleanest snowman ever!

Silly little kid!

xo

Soap is super fun.
Don't knock it till you've tried it mom!

Ivory the Snowman

Bothering Blue

Sometimes Piper and Blue are the best of friends.

Other times,

she is his worst nightmare!

Honestly!

There are days when you can just see in her eyes

that she has it out for him

and he may as well just go lay down somewhere

where she can't find him.

Two nights ago was a 'love' night.

It could have gone either way

when she started giving him that 'look',

but thankfully it was all fun and games!

I love the good days!

xo

Giving Blue 'the look'.
You can tell he is very familiar with it by the worried look on his face.

Showing Blue how big she is!

Blue showing Piper how much he loves his big girl!!

No! No! No! to Ho! Ho! Ho!

Today we did our BIG grocery and liquor store run in the morning

to prepare for the arrival of 

two Poppies,

two Nannies

and one Great-Grandma!

Afterwards,

we went to Mark's work for a Christmas luncheon. 

By the time we left the detachment,

it was an hour past Piper's nap time.

Not a good thing for anyone involved.

Then we realized that Santa would be at the mall,

which we had to pass on our way home

and if we stopped and got her photo taken 

it would save us another trip out into the crowded streets

after supper.

So we stopped.

Bad idea.

Tired toddler = Cranky toddler = No No to Ho Ho!

Ahhh...

she will love this photo when she's older!

xo

I sat with her for a moment to try to warm her up to him,
but when that wasn't working I just dropped her
and made a mad dash to get out of the photo.
You can see me running in this shot!! 

She didn't scream or freak out,
just held out her arms and the tears started to flow!
Do you think she'll need therapy because of me??

Colouring Contest Winner

Today was SUCH an awesome day.

Exhausting.

But awesome!

It started off with a phone call from Home Hardware.

They were calling to tell us that Piper won a prize

for her entry into the Christmas colouring contest.

How cute!!!

On our way to pick up her prize

we stopped at the Post Office.

Not only did we receive a box full of Christmas cards

(thank you to everyone that sent them),

but we also received the last two gifts 

that we have been waiting for 

to give to Nana and Poppy.

THEN,

after picking up Piper's prize from the hardware store,

I decided to make one last ditch effort

at finding us a decent artificial Christmas tree.

My procrastination has left us treeless this year,

as Costco was sold out of their nice trees

and almost everywhere else we have looked

only had ugly trees, 

trees with only white lights 

or nice trees that were WAY too expensive.

Anyway,

in my last effort to find us a nice tree

I stopped into Kent Building Supplies.

I knew they had a beautiful tree there for $400,

which I absolutely refused to pay for a tree!

But today, 

it was marked as clearance for 50% off.

Eeek.

But they were all sold out.

Even the display tree.

I begged the sales lady to find one for me in another store

and to my delight, 

they found one in the next town over.

A 15 minute drive later,

I was the proud owner of a BEAUTIFUL Christmas tree

with the coloured lights I so wanted!

As if all of this isn't good enough for one day,

when I arrived home

Mark informed me that a delivery truck had arrived

and dropped off the gift that my grandmother 

wanted to have here for Piper for Christmas.

AND THEN,

as I told Mark about my wonderfully productive day over lunch,

we opened a 'bill' 

to discover that it was actually a credit from the propane company.

It showed us that they were sending us a cheque

that was for an amount that was more than what my tree cost!

SO,

I feel like I got my tree for free!!!!!

There really is a Santa Claus! 

:-)

I hope you all had a day as wonderful as mine!

xo

Piper's prize for entering her first colouring contest.

This was the best shot I could get of her with her winning entry.
She was riding the Wombat like a horse and nose diving into the paper.
Sigh! 

The winning entry! Haha!

Little Neta Strikes Again

Clean. Clean. Clean.

Piper is just like her Great-Nanny-Grandy.

A couple of days ago,

I found her cleaning her trains. 

She went and got a cloth,

used her water cup to put "wallow" on her cloth

and proceeded to scrub her trains.

Yep.

Nanny Grandy's grandchild for sure!

xo