Holiday Memories!

I am a little delayed in posting this due to our new arrival (who will have her own post soon!), but we had such a fun holiday season this year!  It was the first year that Mia was able to understand Christmas before it arrived, so we really enjoyed the excited anticipation of the holidays.  We attended several parties and children's events, held our annual Ornament Swap at our house and, of course, enjoyed lots of holiday crafting and baking at home.  On Christmas Eve, family came over to our home for our traditional Feast of Seven Fishes, which is always extra special because our entire neighborhood is lit up with luminaries and Santa stops by our house to deliver a gift before he flies off for his regular Christmas Eve deliveries.  It was the perfect way to spend the holidays!

Tea with Clara!

Gleason Family Christmas Party (and visit from Santa)

Christmas Eve Visit from Santa!

Mia Opening her Christmas Eve Pajamas :)

Christmas Eve 

 Christmas Day!

On a Roll!

While Mia has been able to roll over for months now, it is just within the past few weeks that she has started to use her skill to really move around the house. She can now quickly roll across the room to get to a toy or anything that catches her eye, which of course she loves to do. She has also begun to scoot around the floor, though she seems to do better moving in reverse :)  Attached is a video of Mia showcasing her rolling talent (along with her favorite rattle)!

Halloween Fun!


Halloween was a lot of fun this year - Mia eagerly anticipated the holiday, and we did a lot of celebrating!  We attended a Halloween cookie decorating party, a MOMS Club party, a neighborhood parade and party, a Halloween event at the Roger Williams Park Zoo and, of course, we did the traditional trick or treating on October 31st!  This year, Mia decided to dress up as a unicorn (we were lucky to find a costume that was pink and purple, which are her favorite colors!) and she really enjoyed decorating pumpkins, baking treats and doing arts and crafts in between parties - it was a holiday filled with fun!

 

Very Hungry Caterpillars

Thanks to Mia, we had a bit of a butterfly theme at our house this summer, so I thought I would share some of our fun photos!  It began when I ordered caterpillars so we could watch them transform into butterflies at our house - it was a lot of fun and really fascinating to watch the butterfly life cycle at our house.  I also used books and some manipulatives to help explain the process to Mia.  After enjoying our "pet" butterflies for awhile, we brought them outside and released them. 

Along the same theme, we took a trip to the Butterfly Zoo in Newport with Grammy - we saw hundreds of butterflies and Mia's favorite memory is of a big blue butterfly that landed on her head! 

Caterpillars!

 

 

Butterflies love to eat watermelon!

 

 

 

 

 

Newport Butterfly Zoo

 

 

 

Blue Butterfly on Mia's Head :)

 

 

Releasing our Butterflies!