christmas came!

after we got back from arizona, we started hanging out at grandmom and grandpa's house a lot. eventually, we just sorta moved there and i didn't go back home for several days.

everyone kept telling me that christmas was coming, so i knew he'd be here pretty soon. the night before he came, i noticed that a few presents were under the tree, but the stockings were all empty. grandmom told me that santa was going to come and put presents in them, but i was a little confused 'cuz santa was lying on the carpet just like he usually does (see previous post). i wanted to just go ahead and open the presents that were there. i didn't want to wait. that night, i had a hard time falling asleep. every time my eyes got heavy and drooped closed, they would suddenly shoot open and i'd say "we're all gonna open presents!" eventually, though, i must have fallen asleep.

i woke up very early (it was barely light out at all) and started jumping up and down in my crib, singing "we're all gonna open presents" over and over again until ema finally came and got me. there was nothing she could do to calm me down, so she let me sing at the top of my lungs until we heard everyone else starting to get up. we went downstairs and there were tons of presents. so many more than there were the night before!

but we didn't start opening them right away... for some reason, horse (uncle mathew) had disappeared for a while and we couldn't start until he came back. we never did quite figure out what he had been doing while i was bouncing off the walls desperate to open all the gifts! here are some pictures of me waiting:

cast of characters

lately i've been extending my "alter egos" game to everyone around me. for a while, i was tigger, ema was roo, chachi was eyore, and daddy was pooh (which, he pointed out to roo, was fine as long as nobody heard me calling him that out of context). when we were in arizona, i decided that kiva was piglet, but after we got back to williamsburg, i reassigned that role to grandmom and told grandpa that he was kanga.

but now i'm squirrel (prounced kwoo-uh), grandmom is monkey, grandpa is giraffe, uncle mathew is horse (fuhs), daddy is snowman, chachi is santa, and ema is walrus. when ema told daddy that she is a walrus, for some reason, that made him start singing a wierd song with the words "koo koo ka choo."

hannukah in arizona

safta just sent ema some pictures from our hannukah celebration in arizona. i loved hannukah! the candles are so pretty and i love it when everyone sings.


by the end of hannukah, ema had taught me how to dance to one of the songs (banu choshech). i got to stomp my feet, crouch real small, then jump up as big as i could be. i liked it a lot.

the last two nights of hannukah we were with grandmom and grandpa. they happily joined in the celebrations, enjoying latkes and singing about how the latka ema gave them was "metuka." and by the last night of hannukah, daddy had even mastered some of the songs and he sang along with ema. i think next year i will know the songs, too, so we will all sing together.

here are a few more pictures of our time in arizona. the first is daddy and i playing at the kids center at the resort. the others are me modelling the devon-sized bathrobe they had waiting for me in our room. i loved it!

apologies

i know it has been a really long time since i've posted anything on the blog. here are a couple of reasons why it's been so long.

• we've been very busy.
• ema hasn't had time to help me with it since she's been working a lot lately.
  
• we went to california for thanksgiving, and then spent last weekend in arizona.
• ema got a videocamera for her birthday. since she's been playing with that so much, she hasn't taken many pictures, which means i don't have anything to post on the blog. but she's promised me she'll start taking regular old pictures again. and she also said she'd try to figure out a way for me to give you links to some video clips.
• we all got very sick when we were in arizona. i've never been sick like that before. water came out of my mouth! at first i thought it was funny, if a little wierd. after the 5th time it happened, i told ema i didn't want water to come out of my mouth anymore.