Holiday

Nov 16 2009

A Letter to Father Christmas

We were reading one of Lucy’s fave books, Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs, when Lucy decided it was about time to write her letter to Father Christmas.

We got out her letter-writing kit, and with some prompting, she dictated to me:

Dear Father Christmas,

I like your reindeer. I would like a train set. And Wubert would like a dry towel.

(The dry towel being for after he got out of the tub and was a “soggy moggy.”)

I left the room for a moment, and when I came back, she had started to write another letter in her own hand. So I left her to it.

She used all the stamps on her letter, just in case.

A bit later I wandered back in to see Wubert in the midst of creating his own letter. I suspect he did not want a dry towel after all…and was making his wishes known.

We sent the letters out the next day. We’ll keep an eye on the post and report any interesting mail.

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Nov 4 2009

Halloween, 2009 (Video)

Halloween, 2009 Video from Mike C on Vimeo.

Here’s a video I shot on Halloween. Most of it takes place at the Stanford Shopping Center, where we were joined in a round of trick or treating by John and Laura. For more info (and pics!) please click here.

Music:

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Nov 3 2009

Halloween, 2009

2009

Click on the above collage to see some pics Jill took of our Halloween. This year marked the first time the kid actually got to go out and trick or treat; she fell asleep last year! This time around the kid was wide awake and full of pep (as her Mom and Auntie Laura can attest—they were tasked with keeping up with the little blur of motion.)

Though Lucy enjoyed getting candy, she got a much bigger kick later in the day when she got to dole out sugary prizes to the any kid who wandered near our door. It was pretty neat to watch, the little black kitty cat, very serious, with the big white bowl full of candy.

In addition to Jill’s pics, I shot a bit of video, so I’ll try to post a Halloween video before the end of the week. Also, below are a couple of pics showing how the kid has grown over the last year. You can read our Halloween post from last year here.

Halloween 2009

Halloween, 2008

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Sep 5 2009

The Birthday Song

Lucy singing happy birthday to Auntie Laura….

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Feb 26 2009

Valentines

Happy Belated Valentine’s Day all!

Lucy and I made valentines this year. This is a tradition handed down from my dad (G’pa Tom), who always crafted handmade valentines for us from construction paper or whatever materals he had handy (I remember an intricate lace-edged one made with a holepunch.)

Lucy enjoys crafting things, and is getting much more precise with her crayons. She designed these cards (i.e., told me where to put the hearts, and crayoned on them), all except the first one, which is the valentine we made for her.

She is definitely understanding a lot more about birthdays and holidays at age 2! She frequently grabs ‘Father Christmas‘ for reading material, even now that it is February, and recognizes him in other venues (when he is a polar bear in Richard Scarry, or has a different outfit in Babar.)

In other news, she had a dr. appt. today, and was weighed and measured standing up for the very first time (so grown up!). She is also thankfully done for shots until kindergarten. We are both very happy about that.

She also surprised her daddy by counting to ten last night, which we had no idea she could do. And she can sing abc…’a e u b e u b, 8 a u b e b e….’ Lots of new words too…’walk, car, shock (=sock), shark, pink, blue, apple, Aunty, Omie, Izzy, nope, yep, park, out, in, up, down, oh no!’ and the evocative ‘meow pyuew.’ And whenever you ask who did something, she blames ‘meow.’ Smart kid.

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Dec 27 2008

Christmas, 2008 (Video)

Here are some Christmas 2008 photos and videos. For the first video above, I strung together a few pics taken at Grandma Vita’s on Christmas (along with a couple of pics Sam and Mirjana sent of a snow-covered Oregon).

This second video shows some of the kids being kids.

A quick aside: one neat thing Jill noticed at the get-together: right in the middle of a christmas scene Grandma Vita had put together, making itself right at home among the miniature ceramic christmas trees, houses, and Dickens-like characters, was the Galileo 7. How cool is that?

victorian houses with galileo shuttle

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Dec 25 2008

Christmas Eve, 2008

Here’s a video of L and her mom leaving out a few items for Santa Claus last night. The kid actually does a bit of talking in this one!

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Nov 5 2008

Halloween, 2008

Halloween, 2008

The kid had fun on Halloween. From her mom:

“Her Auntie Laura came down and helped out with the carving of pumpkins. Following that, we all went to the mall to trick or treat…which madame (Lucy) completely slept through!

Back at home, Lucy perked up to her costume and screamed every time someone knocked at the door, and got a big kick out of giving out candy. She would wait in the open door, lollypop in hand, just waiting for any kid to walk by.

She particularly enjoyed handing out candy. She didn’t care about getting any, she just really wanted to give it to kids. She would carefully put it in each kid’s bucket (some of them were even smaller than her) and squeal at every knock on the door. She is really going to love it next year!”

Jill here–just wanted to add links to all the pictures we took on Halloween:

Auntie’s pics here

Mommy’s pics here.

and to add to Mike’s post, Grandmommy would have loved to see how much fun Miss Lucy had in her costume! We miss you, Gma!

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Mar 30 2008

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter Egg Hunt (2008) from Mike C on Vimeo.

Last week Lucy got to participate in her very first Easter Egg Hunt. Though she made a few rookie mistakes (the eggs go in the basket, kid), she did pretty well. Having her ever supportive Mom and assorted relatives close at hand helped a lot in that regard.

Seeing her eyes light up during her “Eureka!” moment, when she actually grasped the basic egg hunt concept of “finding stuff and putting it into a basket” was pretty cool. It was also neat watching her wobble around at her own (un)steady pace while her cousins whizzed this way and that, each clutching their own colorful bounty.

Unfortunately, we forgot to empty our camera’s memory card before going to the get-together, so the video and pics we got were very limited. However, the meager amount of pics we did manage to take have been posted here.

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Feb 14 2008

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Grandmommy came over and brought some presents for Lucy today, and some candy for her parents. That was very thoughtful! (She also sent Lucy a squirrel valentine.)

Well, in an instant when we weren’t looking (of course) Lucy got into her parent’s valentine’s candy, and was very happy about it (see pic). She’ll probably be up all night! Sigh.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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