Easter 2013

We spent Easter weekend in Moscow.  On Saturday, Maylee and Ammie made Easter cookies.  At first, Maylee helped cut out the cookies but then she found playing with the excess dough more exciting.  She decided to design her own cookie and plopped it on the corner of the baking sheet.  Maylee said, "This is my house cookie."  

That Easter Bunny left tracks and gift baskets again!  

 Easter breakfast with Big Ammie (Great-grandma Doris)

 Easter Egg Hunt

My Easter Girls

Maylee loves it when her sister has clothes the same as hers.  She helped pick Kaleah's dress out.

Happy Easter!

Kaleah is 4 Months Old

At four months old, Kaleah learned her first "trick."  When we hold her under her arm pits and say "up," she will push with her feet to stand up.  When we say "down," she will plop down.  She also started doing "motorcycle" hands when she gets excited.

2013 Ski Season Totals

Ski Trips: 15

Maylee's Records:
Runs: 66 (last run of the season was with no harness, on the terrain park, and with no falls)
Bunny Hill Runs: 1 (with harness), 23 (with no harness...all by herself!)

Maylee skis all over the mountain...most of the runs she picks are runs that are blue squares (intermediate terrain). She has asked to ski on the black diamonds (most difficult terrain) and recently we let her do one that was a shorter one.  Her skills have really improved!  She didn't fall on the black diamond and we also only had the center harness clipped, which means we can't control her turns, only slow her down.  Maylee can ski with no harness on the bunny hill.  She still needs a boost from the lift attendants to get on the chair but she can get off the bunny hill lift and ski down all by herself.

Most of her favorite runs are blue squares.

This is a picture of one of the more difficult blues,
before it gets really steep and I can't hold onto her while taking a picture...

Kaleah's Records:
Runs: 35
If we don't have a friend or relative in the lodge available to watch Kaleah, then she rides in a front pack with me.  She gets cozy and always falls asleep...of course, I take it nice and easy.  Now she prefers to take her naps while skiing with me instead of in the lodge.  Kaleah also likes feeling the movement...kind of like babies sleeping in their car seats while the car is moving but once the car stops then they stir and sometimes wake.

  

March 2013 Skiing

March 2nd
I didn't take any pictures of Maylee skiing...only videos.  The exciting thing about this ski trip, was didn't connect the leashes on Maylee's harness for the top third of three runs where the slope is more gradual.  She did awesome skiing by herself!

March 9th - Costume Day at the ski hill

 She is so proud that she learned how to get off the chairlift all by herself today! The bunny hill chair lift is slower and lower to the ground. We spent more time on the bunny hill because Maylee liked skiing all by herself with no leashes.  She tried to convince me to let her ride one chair up all by herself and I would follow on the next chair.  I told her that 3-year-old can't go on the chair by themselves so she let me ride with her.  :-)  

Within five miles of the ski hill, this is what Maylee looks like on our way home from skiing.