Wow! What a wonderful couple of weeks I have had. Christmas finally came and it was wonderful! 
First we went to Swanson's Nursery the day before Christmas Eve because some of Santa's reindeer were visiting (along with a camel and a mini-donkey). What a cool place! I loved trying to feed the animals straw, and watching the model train whiz around the track. 
They even had a pond full of the biggest fish I had ever seen up that close. They were kinda freaky.
Christmas Eve we packed up all kinds of presents and headed over to great uncle Rick and great aunt Kim's house to celebrate with daddy's cousins. What a pile of presents! I could hardly contain myself. 
Daddy had to keep reminding me that it wasn't quite time to open gifts until everyone arrived; and I shouldn't grab ALL the cookies off the table until I had a little dinner 
Anyway, I LOVE CHRISTMAS. Each time it was my turn to open a gift I ripped right into the paper and said, "its a book!" or "its a toy!". Although, once the toys starting appearing I became less interested in opening non-toy presents I received some great things including a gas station/car wash toy; a Thomas the Train talking book with buttons to push and a stearing wheel; and set of play food (with a lollipop!); a lego set; a game…. I could go on and on, and that was just Christmas Eve! Thanks so much to everyone who gave me such lovely things.
Then we came home and put out some milk and cookies for Santa, a carrot for Rudolph, and a little note reminding Santa about the lollipop request, and then I went right to sleep. In the morning… what a treat! Santa had come in the night, eaten the treats, and left me a whole parking garage with an elevator and a gate and a gas station! 
It is SO great! We had a fun morning playing and then packed up to head over to grandma Deane's house. But guess what? 
Santa left me a present at her house too! Another parking garage! The man knows what I like. And grandma had some "Christmas pirate bootie" ready for me too. What a nice time. In the afternoon Uncle Ryan, Aunt Emily, and Buck came over and we opened our stockings from Santa and as you now know… he came through on the lollipops! 
Hurray! Among many other wonderful, fun and delicious things, that is. Then we opened more and more presents (a fire station, a great train set (with gates!), finger paints, books, etc. It is overwhelming to think back on! Grandma made us a delicious dinner and we spent the night at her house. Mommy and daddy went to great uncle Ron and great aunt Carrie's house later that night, but I was too pooped to come.
Mommy and I took an adventure last week to the Everett Children's Museum, which was absolutely fantastic! Why didn't we know about this place?! First of all, it has the best train table EVER. But that's not nearly all. There is a dark room with glow in the dark toys, and a water room, and an airplane, and a farm scene with a cow to milk (I squirted my own pants ) and too many things to remember. It was so good that I had to have a total meltdown when it was time to come home, but it was worth it!
Then it was time for New Year's Eve, which honestly doesn't mean much to me, as my tradition so far is to sleep through the action. This year we went up to the cabin which is always fun (and which means there wasn't too much snow and none of us were sick! Yeah!). We got to play outside a little but the snow was mostly wet and slushy and not that good for playing, but hopefully we'll see some more before the winter is over. Unfortunately I don't have any photos to share with you of the cabin this time.
New Year's Day we went to grandma Deane's house for a special dinner… king crab legs! Actually, I went shopping with her to buy them a couple days earlier and was impressed by the "big animals. not moving." Grandma explained that they were crab and we were going to eat them. So at dinner mommy let me hold one and said to be careful because it was spiny. I proceeded to try to take a bite of what I now know is shell. Thanks mom. Anyway, I did get to taste the meat eventually and it was yummy! And hey, no shellfish allergy
I guess the last bit of news is our total rearrangement of the living room. I helped daddy put together some new furniture for storing my toys and mommy and daddy moved everything around. It looks great! And I have my own space to play now.
Any other news? I guess one important thing is that I am out of diapers in the daytime now! Yahoo! I just have to wear them to bed and at nap time. And even then I often wake up part way and yell out, "take diaper off!" or I call for mommy to come in and I tell her my diaper is wet. Unfortunately I can't stay dry yet while I sleep, but I sure am looking forward to it. Diapers are so 2009.
Here I am snuggling with my new elephant and elephant blankie (and wooden lollipop) while I watch a toy train movie. Happy New Year!