School Christmas Concert

Maylee had to join us for our elementary school's Christmas concert because I had to be there for my class and Kev was our acting principal at the time.  Maylee loves going to "Mama's school" and somehow she knows it is kindergarten even though we haven't taught her that.  She will ask, "I go to kindergarten too?"  So, when we told her that she had to put on a pretty dress to go see the kids at school, she was very excited!

Prior to the concert...

Maylee joined right in and loved hanging out with the kids. 

The kids loved giving her lots of attention and read her books.

(To protect student identity, I altered these first two photos)

During the Concert...

I had a little chair next to mine, but Maylee spent most of the time standing up and trying to copy the hand movements the students were doing in the songs.  She was fun to watch and see how much she enjoyed it!

After the concert...playing with her friend Owen from Carol's house.

 Pretending to eat food...

 Good friends!

Christmas Lights

I was working on making sure the strands were working great, untangled, and ready for Kev to hang when he returned for more.  Maylee loved "helping" untangle and handing them to her dad when he came to the door.

Ladybug Girl

Maylee loves the children's book character Ladybug Girl.  Recently, a student at school gave Maylee a handy-me-down ladybug costume.  When we were reading a Ladybug Girl book, Maylee thought she needed to go put on her costume and ladybug rain boots to become Ladybug Girl!  So then I got out all her Ladybug Girl books and had her pose with them.

Fall Leaves Fun

Maylee had a grand time in Ammie's leaf pile.  I captured these pictures will trying to figure out my new camera. 

Maylee also was better about riding Mama's old tricycle.

It helped that her legs were a little longer since this summer.



Maylee with Ammie and Papa in front of their new house.

They have been in it for a year now.

Day After Thanksgiving

For the first year ever, I was allowed to join my mom and her sister Connie on their sister shopping day for Black Friday sales.  Mom and I started in Lewiston to pick me up some new skis and then Connie and I joined us to shop all over Coeur d' Alene.  I bought another camera because I was tired of waiting on the old one and felt like I was missing Maylee moments.  Kev has also always wanted his own to take with him hunting and on fires so we had previously talked about needing two.

Maylee had a busy day too.  Here are pictures of her after she built a fort in Ammie's living room.

Happy Thanksgiving 2011

This year we spent Thanksgiving in Moscow.  Most nights that we stay in Moscow, cousins Emma and Sarah come to Ammie's house for a sleepover...Maylee's favorite!  The girls entertain Maylee really well.  Great-Grandma Linda gave Maylee a dinosaur puzzle that she liked doing with her cousins on Thanksgiving morning.  Maylee also like watching the dancing and the big balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Big Ammie (my grandma), Aunt Karen, Uncle Sam, Cousin Jay and his wife Kelley and their kids joined us at Ammie & Papa's.  Maylee loved having Lilly there!

 Trying pumpkin pie...Maylee loved it!  When Uncle Sam sat in the recliner to eat his pumpkin pie with Cool Whip, both Maylee and Lilly were sticking their fingers in his pie and eating more!

Maylee and Lilly

Great Grandma Doris (Big Ammie) with great-grandchildren Maylee, Lilly, and Cole

Interesting Eating Days in November

There have been a few times that I just have to take a picture of Maylee while she is eating. 

Seriously? Where do you even start cleaning?

We took her straight to the shower!



Yummy "Dirt" Pudding

Trying to use chopsticks like Mama...

She is not a huge fan of peas and corn, but we still keep offering them to her. 

On this night, she decided to sort the peas and corn, and line the peas up on the edge of her plate.

Ty's Birthday

Maylee went to her first birthday party for a friend.  She has been to many parties for cousins, but this was the first for one of her own little friends.  It is a good feeling as a parent to know that other kids like your kid and invite your child to play.  The party had a firefighting theme.

These are some of her friends from Carol's house (Ty on the left and Owen on the right)

The kids liked this fun game where they had to use squirt guns to put out the "fire."

 Maylee loves hanging out with Ty's older sisters too. 

Hailey was in my kindergarten class two years ago and Madison is in my class this year.

 Yee-haw...ride 'em Firefighter Girl!



First Snow Fall

Maylee was super excited for our first accumulating snow fall!

She has her scarf from Kathy on...ready for winter!

Maylee's Fall Crafts

Carol does some really cute crafts with the kids she watches.  On craft days, we can usually pick out Maylee's without reading the names because hers almost always has the most yellow on it (paper, paint, feathers, etc.)  Here are some of Maylee's fall crafts...

Carol cut the bones but Maylee did the face and green paint.

She still talks about how Carol painted her feet and it tickled.

 

Yellow feather and feet for this owl.

Mr. Turkey had yellow paint and lots of yellow feathers.  Her octopus also has yellow legs.

I took Maylee to the local library for pumpkin decorating.  We decorated a little pumpkin and then Maylee painted paper pumpkins for our house, Ammie's house, and Nana Jo's house.