My Favorite Christmas Thing of 2010.

Since we got our tree earlier this month, every morning when Cece & I get up (ok, sometimes she gets up way before me with her dad, on those days when I finally drag out of bed) she runs to the tree and points:

"Tee! Tee!"

It took me a while, but I eventually realized she wanted me to turn on the lights. Most mornings she gets up around 5:30 so it's usually very dark still. I turn on the lights and she gets the biggest grin ever. Sometimes she points to the lights (ee-iigh's), sometimes she steals an ornament. Sometimes she just eats a banana & sits on my lap. I like that part the best. Anyway, for a few minutes every morning, before we turn to climbing and running and chasing for the day we have a snuggle & look at the Tee. I know next year will probably bring a new routine, so I'm enjoying every day I get of this one.

snow!

not sure...


i think this is my fav :)




ooops.. mommyfail ;)




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videos:
this one you guys have to watch! it's short:





cece playing in the snow:

flying fluff

This isn't the photo I was originally thinking of for this weeks I <3 Faces pets challenge, buuuut I think it about sums Baxter ("fluff") Hollywood up. (the dog of many nicknames)

Tree

We hitched up the old front-wheel drive sleigh today, for a drive out into the country* to select a tree. *by country, I mean city, as in a tree lot about a mile from home.

Cece clearly hated it, but none the less she was willing to run about, checking out the trees on offer.

Final decision time came, and she was seriously considering the final contenders.

We did end up picking one out, and it's currently standing in the corner of the room, awaiting lights and decorations. Beastie is checking it out, making sure we made the right choice:

sla the flouch

we're super classy & have dragged a full sized mattress into our living room in front of our couch (the "flouch"), and it now lives there on a semi permanent basis (it theoretically lives in cece's room. kind of like how she theoretically lives there)

we got a new tv stand, so the flouched is leaned up against the actual couch and cece climbs up on the couch, super excited exclaiming 'sla!" which i finally remember is her word for slide! just in time to assist her sliding down.

funny girl.

more words!

we've been looking at cece's big book of animals, she already knew kitties, fluffs and ducks- but a surprise to me was elephant! she points to the elephant & says "elya"

well, time is officially flying

I think about this blog a lot! i have some cute fall pictures of cece to post. but she's so busy these days, i'm very tired by the end of the day. so there are my excuses about neglecting this.

happy halloweeeeen!

Cece & her friends Jack & Kieran were Doozers for halloween (at least at our happy haunting party yesterday):

being a doozer is EXHAUSTING!

here's a movie of our attempt to get a group shot of the babies in their helmets :)

cece seems to be cutting 4 teeth. which would explain the sleepless nights (or, really early mornings- i guess, to be fair).  it looks like another front bottom tooth, and maybe a molar? she is NOT one to let us poke around in her mouth, so i can't be sure.

cuteness

we were lounging around yesterday, watching some sesame street & having a snuggle:

when i looked behind me & saw this:

Cece had set her little dinosaur up on a shoebox, looking out the window. now, i know she's a little young for pretend play, so i don't think there was a lot of intention behind this pile. none the less, the picture makes me smile every time i see it. sweet little baby, sharing her favorite spot with her buddy.



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gravity and magic.

well, gravity IS magic, of course. cece has been conducting some experiments. yesterday, baxter had disemboweled one of his fluff filled toys- so cece was picking up the fluff, holding it over her head and letting it fall. this was all extra cute because she was standing in front of the fan and would greatly enjoy as it blew away.  today she tried the experiment again with a block from her shape sorter. it fell much quicker and would land on her face, or roll down her arms. she thought this was pretty great too.

tonight we went out to dinner. it got pretty loud in the restaurant and cece would put her fingers in her ears. as she took them out, her eyes would light up and she'd crack a sly grin. holy crap, i can control sound. this is magic. she's a pretty cool kid.

na-na na-na?

we're lounging around this morning and cece starts signing for milk & saying "mummummummum" (which means she wants to nurse) it was a long night of nursing, so i said 'not right now baby' she paused for a minute, leaned over with a big grin and said "na-na- na-na??" (banana) her second favorite food, i guess! :)

many faces of cece

who am i to resist a snuggle?


it's tough waking up w/a camera in your face.


you're kind of a jerk mumma.


relaxin with daddoo.

take time to smell the flowers.

we have some sprawling pile of flowers in the backyard that cece marches over to, plunks down, leans over and says "mmmmm!" as if she was smelling them and they smell great.

more Ceceisms

Cece is a whirlwind of activity these days, keeping up with her is keeping me from keeping up this blog!

i wanted to write down a couple funny things she did this morning,
she's got a fake laugh, which usually sounds like "ha ha ha!" which is funny enough alone- but this morning she was gesticulating wildly that she wanted my coffee. and i told her no, coffee is for mummy, and mummy needs coffee because of cece. which got a big fake laugh "huuh huhh huhh!"

she's also been playing with the little egg cups from andy's poaching pan. this morning she was excited to combine that w/the cats water dish & discover it's like an indoor water table. after all she has a little scoop for her outdoor table. how'd she get so smart.

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cece in action

this is how we eat now:



i guess cece was tired of the rain too!




love!

Ceceisms

Cecelia still isn't much for talking with 'actual' words, but she is still very chatty. she has returned to calling the kitties  something that sounds a lot like kitty. sort of a 'ki-teeteeteee!' and i think she might have said 'gentle' the other day (since we always say 'gentle gentle!' when she's near any of the animals) Baxter is also a kitty, but, to be fair, he's smaller than most of the kitties.

balloon is "ba ba ba" and she has a great time with the balloon we got her for her birthday. it's pretty deflated by this point but she likes to crinkle it and hug it. i'm tempted to fold it up and save it for her, but i imagine it won't be as cherished when she's older ;)

she can sign for milk & all done- although the sign for milk now means pretty much anything she is interested in and all done for anything she does not want. i guess we should work on learning a few more!

one of the things she got for her birthday is a  little elmo mailbox. it's a shape sorter- but she took a good look at it one day and opened up the front of it and just puts everything in that way. it's much more efficient!

and more good news- we got the results of her blood tests back and she is no loner anemic! her iron levels have reached the normal levels, so we get to stop supplementing. we're all very excited about that.

plug

for those of you in the boston area- head on over to the middle east (corner) to see my brothers art!

cece approves:

more milestones!

we had cece's 1 year well baby check up this week. everything looked good! she's still above the 95% for height & weight- at 27(and change) pounds & 32 inches. i finally brought her to get her iron rechecked today, so hopefully all will be good on that front when we get the results.

The Fair

Last friday we headed to the rehobeth fair with some of the fam, beth & the kids, & aunt sue & uncle ray. I finally got a chance to upload the pictures. as usual, i "narrowed it down" to 117, but i won't post them all here :)

cece was NOT sure about the animals this time around.

she was also not sure about the rides.

but the lemonade was good.

waiting for the tractors!

where are they?

tractors are so awesome. pat pat can't wait!

Renee is not so sure any of this is awesome.

good night cece. good night pat pat.

good night fair.

birthday party!

so, only 4 days later i'm finally posting about the partaaay :)


i didn't take that many photos before cake started


aaand she really wasn't that into cake. which is fine with me.


she may not have been into the cake, but she liked the ice cream- i think this is her all done face!


my friend meghan's son jake, however, is alll about the cake :)


happeeeee




whatchoo talking about kieran?


crazy muppet.


after the babies fell asleep we played cornhole & had some more adult foolishness that was fun too!