Boo winter!

Many who know me know that I HATE snow so I was very sad to see such blinding whiteness one morning. Danica however (thankfully) does not share most of my likes/dislikes though so we ventured out. And by "we" I mean I sat bundled up sitting on the only surface not covered with snow(a manhole cover) and asked Danica if she was done yet about every 3 minutes. Sure wish I had a backyard =(
BRRR!

She was heartbroken when I said we weren't going to make gingerbread men because she had so much fun making them last year. I vetoed the gingerbread because I simply didn't like it-and making yucky cookies is just so sad- so we made sugar cookies instead. ...and yes, some in gingerbread man shapes. While many people's holiday plans were messed up due to the poor weather conditions concerning flights and such, I was ecstatic. We got to have Danica for Christmas this year! We had an early Christmas with Nana Mykie and then spent Christmas day at both the Dewsnup's and Vance's.

Danica is lucky to have such great uncles. Uncle John played several games of memory with Danica using her new cards...she cared naught that they were for old maid, go fish and crazy 8's...

Cute new pj's.

Our Christmas tree and short-stuff. I took down all the rest of the decorations right after Christmas but couldn't bear to take the tree down yet. It just seems so sad to think it lived it's "purpose." I shall mourn it's passage. Perhaps I should look into getting a fake tree? ;)

If you can't tell my hubby doesn't like getting pics taken so he halfheartedly humors me.

Grandpa Dan reading Danica a new book she got for Christmas. She LOVES being read to.

Ah, two of Danica's loves. Wilbur and Penne. (she doesn't get that from me)

So now that we've passed all the exciting parts of winter...

I'm done! Can summer come now???

oh, and if you're wondering why there aren't any pics from my folks house it's because I had a dead camera battery by then but I'm sure they'll post about Christmas...

Pilates!

No, I haven't been up to much exercise but Danica has. She absolutely loves pilates-tis the only workout dvd's we own. I had rented her a kid yoga dvd from the library and she got a big kick out of it too. The only reason I have any desire to get on-demand?, I don't know what the tv-cable thingy is called, is that they have a bunch of fun workouts on there at your fingertips. We were doing some of the yoga workouts a few weeks ago and I remembered how much I like it. I must admit I cannot do down-dog properly at all anymore.

Anyhow, purpose of this post is simply for these pics taken the other day:

...I'd like to note that it is clean laundry stacked in the background...it's actually still there. But it's clean!

Selective hearing?

Nope...she simply is hard of hearing. Poor child. I took her to the doctor today. She was to raise her hand when she heard a beep from the device stuck in her ear. Out of three beeps she heard one in one ear and two in the other. We'll recheck next week and if it's the same she'll go to a specialist. She has been sick and they could tell there was fluid on one side, though it was the side on which she did better on the hearing test.
Obviously she can hear =) just not as well as she should be able to.