Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. My parents and brother came over from some Christmas brunch in the morning and then we visited Will's mom in the afternoon. For dinner we headed to my parent's house with my sister and her family. Santa was very generous this year....I got a Tom Tom navigation system for my car, all 4 Shreks on bluray and cozy boots. Will received some comfy slippers, Last of the Moheicans on bluray, and a VW calender and bar stool. Kate got the best gift of all...an awesome play kitchen (see pictures below). Despite the rainy weather, we had such a great time hanging out with family and celebrating the birth of Jesus!

Kate all dressed up for our church's Christmas Eve service She didn't like me taking pictures of her

Christmas morning! Kate loved opening up all of her gifts. We gave her a lot of pretend food/plates/cups to go along with her play kitchen Papa and Gramma gave her. Yummy strawberry!

Santa brought Kate a "Tickle-me-Elmo." Kate was very excited to receive such a silly gift.

The kitchen! Kate was watching Papa cook Playing at Papa and Gramma's house

Tickle time with Gramma and Papa!

Papa and his 2 girls

The play kitchen has become Kate's obsession. She loves to reorganize the shelves and "cook" anything in the microwave. She also enjoys talking on the phone and washing her hands. From the moment she wakes up to the time she goes to bed she is at her kitchen. It is so amazing to watch her pretend!

Kate's Dedushka bought her a log cabin playhouse for outdoors. We probably won't put it together until the weather gets a little nicer, but stay tuned for more pretend fun!

Agee Christmas and other pictures

On Wednesday we had our annual Agee Christmas (Dad's side of the family). Kate had a fun time exploring her new surroundings and meeting new people. Here favorite two activities were going up and down the stairs and playing with the bean bag toss. We had a nice time hanging out with the family and catching up with everyone. We tried to get a cute picture of Kate with her cousin, Chloe. We weren't too successful this year.

This is the picture from last year...boy, things certainly have changed!

Kate played with the bean bags for quite a long time despite the cold temperature outside.

Here are a few more cute pictures from this week. Kate received some bath crayons from her friend and she LOVES playing with them! They are supposed to completely wash off but I am finding some color left behind in the grout... grrrr.

After her bath, Kate was wired and running laps around the living room.

Loscutoff Holiday Gathering

Last night we had the pleasure of Will's family coming over to our house for our annual holiday dinner. It was a wonderful evening with delicious Thai food, neighborhood carolers and fun family time. Kate had such an amazing time playing with her Dedushka showing him all her new tricks!

First thing Kate did when Dedushka showed up was pull out all her books and have him read to her.
Grammalene decided to join in on the fun!

Jumping on the couch with Dedushka

Playing catch with Grammalene

This picture was taken this morning, hence the messed up hair. Kate's new thing is to put all her stuffed animals in her crib and arrange them in a certain order then she either sits on top of them or throws them out. She can easily spend an hour doing this. Kate decided to read to her stuffed animals this morning.

Kate and Dedushka playing

Russian singing!

Just some pictures...

Since it has been a while since I lasted posted, I figured I would share some pictures of Kate from this past week.
Kate loves spending time with Annie. She is always asking where the cat has gone and when she finds Annie she usually gives her a big hug.

Today Kate and I went to Ikea to find her a chair. She went straight to this rocking chair and didn't want to get off. The price tag said that it was sold out but a sales associate told me that there were only 2 left. Thankfully we were able to purchase one and I put it together right when we got home. She already loves sitting and rocking in it!

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Before we get to the videos, I had to post this picture of Kate mopping. She wanted to help me out and she did a great job! She mopped almost the entire floor for me. She is such a big help!
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Jumping...well sort of. :-)


Uh-oh!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Over the past week we have been working towards transforming our house for Christmas. On Sunday we spent the afternoon adding lights to our front yard. It was a bit chilly but Kate had a fun time, especially looking at the light balls we hang from our tree.

Kate loves looking at the lights. She is always asking us to turn them on, even when it is bright outside.On Thursday we headed up to Apple Hill to cut down our Christmas tree. Since it was a weekday we had the entire tree farm to ourselves. It took a while to find the perfect tree, but we found it! Kate loved walking around in the mud and looking at all the pretty trees.

Since the tree farm was quite large we had a tractor take our tree to the car. It was nice not having to carry it ourselves. Kate wasn't too sure what to make of the big moose.

Our tree...all decorated with ornaments and lights. So pretty!