BUBBLES!

You know this girl loves a bubble bath and gets even more excited when we turn the jets on in the tub to make MORE BUBBLES!












And as usual, after her bath we played a bit before bedtime.












We had all of the upstairs doors open and she ran into the nursery and grabbed the bouncy chair for her bears. I guess she thought they had enough bouncing and decided to put the chair back by herself.

"Mommy Bot!"

Stasa loves our iPads and calls them Mommy Bot and Daddy Bot, probably because one of her favorite apps on them is a talking robot. The damn things are so intuitive she's able to unlock them and scroll through to find her own apps and games.

Blue bath!

Santa left Stasa a tub of Bath Dropz in her stocking for Christmas and we tried one out the other night and had a blue bath. 









After her bath it was time for pjs, books, and bed.



Stasa thinks her Elmo slippers are actually Muno from Yo Gabba Gabba. She has to wear her "Muno" slippers to bed every night and if they come off she calls out "uh oh Muno!"

Cell phone pic montage

"Cheese Mommy!" Stasa got ahold of our old digital camera and demanded we smile so she could snap our picture.



Giving Mimi's Christmas card a kiss

The end of the Christmas weekend

Yesterday we woke up again to Stasa crawling in our bed to cuddle. We spent the rest of the day playing and watching football. 

Stasa's new personalized stool from Aunt Peggy and Uncle Pat - she loves it!

Coloring with her big girl crayons

And she loves drinking from her big girl cup. We finally had to take it away to get her to eat some of her dinner.

Merry Christmas to all...

...and to all a good night! Though it's 10:30 pm and our little "angel" is still wide awake and refusing to sleep. This morning was the first morning that she came into our room to wake us up; usually she just slams her own door shut and plays with her bears and dog. Too bad it was only 7:15 am and we were up the night before until it was officially Christmas. So we got up, brushed our teeth, and made our way downstairs and saw all of the wonderful gifts Santa had brought us. Stasa's eyes lit up when she saw everything. 





Yiayia had sent her a beautiful dress (with a matching doll's dress), a crocheted apron dress, and an awesome pink tracksuit. And Stasa opened a Cinderella DVD and matching dress from Aunt Jennifer and Uncle Josh. 



Cousin Andreas was very generous and sent THREE play food sets, all of which were very tasty.






She got the hang of opening presents right away and insisted on "helping" mommy and daddy open theirs. Needless to say present opening went pretty quick - she didn't even stop to really look at the gift - just off to the next one, like a true toddler. She did spend quite a bit of time looking through her stocking and loved all of the treasures in there.









New hair bows!



Her very own hairbrush (so mommy can reclaim hers)



So many presents!



After present time we played dress up and tried on some of the clothes.









And we played with her new kitchen (in her apron dress from Yiayia and her Elmo slippers from Santa).






Then we colored with her brand new big girl crayons.






And right before nap time she curled up on the couch next to daddy with her box of animal crackers and her milk.






While she napped Tom and I finished up prepping and cooking for dinner and got the table all set up. Tom made a roasted duck, mashed potatoes, an oyster stuffing, a regular stuffing, and stuffed tomatoes (my all-time favorite). Pete and Tiffany brought ham, sugar snap peas, homemade bread, and a delicious fruit salad (which I'm still eating now). My family came over for dessert, coffee, and presents and I think Tom and I may have shared our cold with them over graduation weekend. :C  Dessert was chocolate chip cookies, gingerbread men, gingersnaps, oatmeal raisin cookies, angelfood cake, sweet potato pie, baked apples, and chocolate chip cookie bars. Everything was so delicious and I definitely ate more than my share, especially during dessert. Stasa had a blast with everyone and is really starting to warm up to all of the family members (though she still gets super excited when Mimi/Aunt Peggy walks in). 


I'm praying that she decides to sleep in a bit later tomorrow morning to allow us all a little extra time to sleep. If not, at least I can nap on the playroom floor while she "cooks" me something tasty in her new kitchen.