Melanie

Jill's best friend from high school was in town over the holidays so we stopped by her parents house to see her. It was great to catch up!

Betty Brinn

Hadley and I met some friends at Betty Brinn Children's Museum for some fun, here are a couple pics!

I'm so cute.

Christmas #4-Grandma and Grandpa Jankowski's

Great Grandma looking good

Looking cute in my new outfit

Taking a break with Grandpa

An ART EASEL!!!!

Thanks Grandma

Thank you Grandpa

Love you Great Grandma

Love the Wonder Pets

Still love the Wonder Pets

Mom's friend Carrie stops by for a visit

Christmas #3-our house Christmas morning

Santa came!!!!

Opening present #1

A doll house!!!

Definitely the favorite gift, the Wonder Pets and their flyboat!

I love my daddy

Christmas #2

Here we are celebrating with Mike's family on Christmas Eve.

Picture before church

Reading with Uncle John

Reading with mom

I love my cousin Sean

Uncle John's funny christmas sweater was silly!

Santa

This is what Hadley left for Santa tonight. It is so fun that she actually gets it that Santa is coming tonight while she is sleeping and she is so excited that it is adorable. Notice how the milk has a straw in it, she was very concerned that Santa needed a straw. It was hilarious.

Painting

We are on day two of being stuck in the house thanks to the wonderful weather we are having here so we had to come up with something fun to do. What's more fun than painting? It was so fun to watch Hadley have so much fun. At the end you can see a couple of the finished paintings!

Christmas #1

We just got back today from celebrating Christmas in Appleton with Mimi and Papa, it was lots of fun!

Reading the Night Before Christmas with Papa

Playing computer games on Mimi's computer

Playing outside with Auntie Lulu and daddy

Daddy riding the sled behind Papa's tractor

Hadley and Mama, it was COLD!

Mimi sledding

The care bear that Auntie Lulu gave Hadley

The bean bag chair that Santa brought to Mimi and Papa's for Hadley to sit in when she is there.

Our family

Mimi and Hadley

Snowday

Last friday mom had a snow day at school so Hadley and she got to play all day! The first two pictures are of Hadley drinking out of her special cup. A co worker of mine gave me this great cup that lights up when you put liquid in it, Hadley LOVES it! The last picture is of Hadley "grocery shopping".

Nuk

So I had been planning on breaking Hadley of the pacifier over Christmas break. I figured why not? I have two weeks off and she is almost two and she has only been using it to sleep for a long time now, it's probably time. Then tonight we are doing our nightly routine and she usually picks one out from the pile of them on her dresser before bed. She picks one up, puts it in her mouth and then takes it out and gives it to me. She proceeds to say, "big girls don't need NUKS". Alrighty then, decision made, no more NUK!!! We'll see how it continues to go, but for tonight she went to bed with no problem, hope it stays that easy!!!

Decorating the tree

getting a little help from dad

The finished product

Last year we decorated the tree while Hadley was sleeping because she was too little to help and we just figured it would be easier. This year she was very excited to help and while she needed some help getting the ornaments to stay on the branch, she was a great helper!