Mommy's Make-up

This morning Melissa was doing a bit of mimicking with my old make-up. My she was proud of her new look :)

Aqua Doodle

Thanks Uncle Dan & Aunt Nikki for the
Aqua Doodle mat and accessories!

Introducing Playdough

Tonight Melissa was introduced to playdough...

Christmas at the Klassens

Tonight was day three of Christmas for us! We enjoyed a wonderful evening of family traditions with the ever expanding Klassen family.






Xander & Melissa helping Nani open her gift.













A 4-pack of dress-up
shoes for Melissa!
















La-dee-dah!


















Phew... we are a little tired from all the fun!

Christmas with Nana & Pop Thomas

Today was a Merry Christmas! We celebrated with the Thomas side of the family and Melissa got thoroughly spoiled. We now have to find more room in our house for the bounty of new Dora goodies! Thanks Nana & Pop :)


































A General Mills toy food set for Melissa's kitchenette!


















A Dora doll from Pop!













Many new clothes (with Dora on them!)
























Melissa and a scratch n' sniff book sent from cousin Luca in Toronto!

Thomas Three Christmas

Today we celebrated our little family's Christmas, as the next two days are busy with our larger families. It was a lot of fun to enjoy Melissa's excitement over all her gifts. You can see it was a little bit of a Dora Christmas over here!

Cousin Christmas

Last night we celebrated Christmas with Thomas cousins Elaine, Brandie & Mackenzie. The girls were so cute together :)

Stobbe Gathering

Yesterday was our first family gathering of the season. Melissa received a perfect gift to nurture her love for drawing... thanks Grandpa & Grandma Stobbe!

Merry Christmas!

Tank Cleaners

Tonight Melissa's attention was fully consumed
by the cleaning of our fish tank!

Monster Cookie

Daddy brought home a special treat for Melissa... a MONSTER cookie! She thought it was quite something, but only ate the M&M's off of it :)

O Christmas Tree

This past Sunday Melissa and I put up the Christmas tree. It proved to be a very extensive project, as fluffing the tree alone took about 2 hours! By the time Melissa woke up from her nap she was greeted by a fully decorated tree in our living room. She was mighty impressed!

Christmas Cookies

Today Melissa and I decorated Christmas cookies together. Melissa especially liked all the little "balls" we sprinkled on top!

















































As you can see she was my quality control ;)

Who's that?

Ever since Melissa started to speak, Ken & I have been waiting to hear how she will say her name, or what she will call herself. Well yesterday she finally answered when I asked her who that was on the screen of my digital camera. She answered "You"!

I think too many times we have pointed at a picture or reflection of her and said "Who's that?... That's you!". Now we have a little Chinese baby named "Yu"!

First Snowfall

Here are some pics of the last two days of snow. It is Melissa's first time being mobile when it is here.

On the first day she wasn't too sure about it... and was very reluctant to touch it or enjoy it. She only would lay on my stomach or be held.


















































On the second day, she wasn't happy that we were trying this again. I managed to get her to enjoy riding in the sled and she really ended up liking it, until she toppled onto her back... and all the snow from her boots landed in her face! That was then end of that!
































Looks like we will be getting a few more days of snow to enjoy!

Just a quick update, that Melissa is now pretty much back to her old self. Her appetite is finally back and probably stronger than it has been in a long time!

Sorry Nani for getting you sick too :(