A Little Bit of Snow Fun

Yesterday we had a nice snow fall - enough to play in and it was just below freezing so we could be outside for a while without getting too cold. Juliana was happy to get bundled up with the prospect of walking on and touching the snow - whenever she sees that it has snowed, she wants to go outside and "touch it and hold some".

She took her rake and shovel outside and dug holes and threw snow in the air for a while. Then she decided to eat some snow - good and cold is how she described it. But she spent most of the time running and yelling - just happy to be outside, it's been too cold to play outside the past few weeks.























When I was shoveling the driveway she couldn't resist the snow pile I was creating - she ran and jumped into it and rolled around. She decided to shed her mittens at that point so she could hold the snow in her hands. Once the mittens were discarded we couldn't stay outside much longer...

Dump Truck Princess

A new favorite game since Christmas - Dump Truck Princess. It's a very simple game. 1 - find all of the Princesses, 2- Stand them up in the back of the dump truck, 3 - Drive them around for a minute, 4 - Dump them out onto the floor.

Counting Animals

Juliana was quietly playing this morning before I took her to daycare and then I heard her counting. I looked over and she had lined up all of the zoo animals in a long row and was counting them - there are26 animals and she made it halfway through with the correct numbers and then she just said random numbers the rest of the way. She was so pleased with herself when she got to the end of the line. And the best part - she put them all away when she was done - I didn't even have to ask.

Cleaning

One of Juliana's most used Christmas presents has turned out to be the Little Tikes cleaning set - she loves to sweep with the broom and then empty the dustpan into the waste basket. She even did some dust mopping on Christmas day.

Christmas Day

It wasn't quite the Chrismas morning that I was anticipating with Juliana not feeling well, but she did ok. She was surprised to find presents waiting downstairs and excited that there was something in her stocking. Soon all of the presents were open and her new toys were strewn around the room.

We spent the afternoon with Scott's family at his parent's house. For as bad as Juliana was feeling, she did much better than I expected. She had so much fun with her cousin Sara. The 2 of them exchanged lots of hugs and did a good bit of yelling - Juliana's dinasour yell...

They sat so patiently at present time and then dove into their present bags. Juliana was very excited about the Beauty and the Beast bag :)

McCollum Family Christmas Festivities

It's taken quite a while for me to post about Christmas...but here it is.

The Saturday before Christmas, Juliana woke up with a cough and sore throat and she was sick for the remainder of the holidays.

Saturday night, my parents and Nick and Becky came for dinner. And then Sunday night was the traditional meatloaf night at my parent's house. After dinner Juliana opened a few presents since she had so many to open.

Christmas Eve day Juliana woke up early in the morning coughing and crying starting a very long day. We went to my parent's house just past noon. Juliana took a brief nap but mostly was only interested in being held by me. We had yummy turkey dinner and then opened presents. Juliana opened a few, but then got tired of the whole process - it was too much for her in her tired condition. We left a stack of presents under the tree for her to open later in the week.