Sleeping in the car

On our way home from the train museum, Zatanna fell asleep. I was able to get this adorable picture of her.

Trolley Ride

Yesterday, we went to the Museum of Transportation. We got to take a trolley ride! It was a lot of fun. Zatanna did not like with the conductor blew the whistle, but she did enjoy getting to blow the whistle herself. She refused to leave her reindeer antlers at home.

A couple of model trains at the museum.

Breakfast with Santa

So we went to another breakfast with Santa. It went better the 2nd time around! Maybe it was that daddy was able to join us this time. Zatanna had a wonderful time. Still a little shy with Santa, but she did let him hold her for a picture.

Waiting in line with daddy.

Checking out the poinsettias while we wait.

Trying to put her shoe back on.

Checking out the Christmas tree with mommy.

Checking daddy's eyes, ears and giving him kisses.

Meeting Santa!

Leading Daddy

Zatanna loves to grab daddy's hand and lead him around. I was luck enough to get a picture of her pulling him along.

Reindeer Antlers

The other night at Target I picked up some reindeer antlers for Zatanna. I fully expected her to ignore them like she ignores all other headbands I have gotten for her. This time it was completely different. She loves them. She wears them around all the time. These are pictures from the first night that she got them.

Working

Zatanna loves visiting my home office. I think she's ready for me to put her to work.

Baking

With the holidays here I have been doing a lot of baking. Zatanna loves watching the mixer mix the ingredients. She even wants to help out mixing the stuff. Now when she hears the mixer she comes running to watch and help.

Painting

We found out that Zatanna loves to paint. All she wants to do lately is paint. She has so much fun. She has been working hard on Christmas presents for everyone.

Meeting Santa

We met Santa! So the meeting didn't go quite as expected. Last year she loved Santa so we were hoping that would continue, unfortunatley it didn't. She is very interested in Santa until he turns his full attention to her. As soon as he does that she gets shy. She loved her dress and shoes. I think the shoes were her absolute favorite. The only problem is that they are too big so every time it falls off I hear: Shoo, Shoo.

First meeting this season. She is nervously chewing on her finger.

Coloring

Cute picture of Zatanna coloring.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Due to all the snow that we have been getting we have not been able to get a Christmas tree. So Art and I decided to pull out the fake tree this year. We wanted Zatanna to experience decorating the tree. The first thing Zatanna wanted to do was decorate the tree with stuffed animals. I found out last night that my daughter has stuffed animal radar. I was in the closet getting out the tree and decorations and randomly Zatanna finds this Easter duck that is in the corner of the closet in an Easter basket. No clue how she saw it, but she did and he is now out celebrating Christmas.

I got this plate a couple of years ago. When we unpacked it I told Zatanna that we use this to plate to put out cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve. After my explanation of what we do she took the plate headed right for her dad in the kitchen and asked for a cookie.

She had fun trying to put the angel on the tree. Unfortunately the top of the tree would not hold the angel.

Then Zatanna wanted to try putting the lion on the top of the tree.

As I started unpacking the ornaments to figure out which ones could go on the tree, Zatanna kept asking for the ornaments and wandering over to her desk with them. When we finally looked to see what she was doing with them we found this.

We allowed Zatanna to decide where all the ornaments went on the tree. She really enjoyed herself. Here is a picture of Zatanna with the final product.

Playing with Stuffies

Once again we had a great day playing with Zatanna's stuffed animals. While Mommy made cookies and Daddy tried to watch some football, Zatanna was busy moving and rearranging her stuffed animals around the living room. She has such a great time playing with all of them.

Daddy's hunting hat

While moving some stuff around in the closet I found Art's hat he wore for hunting last year. Remembering the cute pictures that we go of Zatanna wearing her daddy's hat I decided to try to recreate the magic. All did not go as planned. Zatanna was much more interested in her new necklaces than the hat. When she realized the hat was on and I was trying to get her picture she wanted to rip it off. It took several tried to get the two pictures that I was able to take.

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2010

Decorating for Christmas

So decorating for Christmas has become a challenge with Zatanna around. She loved the Christmas stuffed animals and the other interesting decorations. As I pulled things from the boxes she wanted to inspect them immediately. She has so much fun playing with the snow family that Great Grandma Mosher made when she was born, the Santa that was mine when I was a baby and the singing reindeer stocking. Although I didn't get much decorating done it was so much fun seeing Zatanna with all the decorations.