Sunday, November 29, 2009

Yo Gabba Gabba, Nutcracker Tea and Christmas Party

My two adorable girls all dressed to go see "Yo Gabba Gabba! Live: There's a Party In My City."

Jordan and Katelyn eating a snack before the show begins.

DJ Lance, Brobee (the little green one), Foofa (the pink flower bubble), Muno (the red Cyclops), Plex (magic robot) and Toodee (the blue cat-dragon) live on stage!

The girls loved, loved, loved the show! Katelyn kept saying how much fun she was having. They sang and danced the whole time.

Katelyn with DJ Lance. He was great. At intermission, he came out into the audience and walked around talking with people. It was nice to be able to get this picture of Katelyn and DJ Lance together because she loved the show so much. He was very nice!

This performer asked if any kids wanted to come up and sing along with him. Jordan rushed to the stage to do so.

Here Jordan is rapping. It was so cute and he was great! She actually did it twice and was on the big screen for everyone to see.

Jordan's friend, Kylie, found us at the concert after seeing Jordan on the big screen! She realized where Jordan and Katelyn were sitting.

DJ Lance and the gang performed my girls favorite song “There’s a party in my tummy!”

The song goes like this: Brobee: “There’s a party in my tummy!”

In the background: So yummy! So yummy!”

“There’s a party in my tummy!”

“So yummy! So yummy!”

Then, you hear sniffling and crying. It’s coming from the green beans and carrots left on the plate.

“Why are you sad?” Brobee asks.

“We want to go to the party – the party in your tummy,” they whine.

He’s suddenly sad, and he asks, “Carrots want to go to the party in my tummy?”

“Yeah!”

“Do green beans want to go to the party in my tummy?”

“Yeah!”

“Ok, let’s go!”

So he begins packing them down, and the techno music starts up again. “Carrots! In my tummy! Party, party.”

It is so funny to see Katelyn dancing and singing to this. She loves it!!
After the show, I took the girls to go meet the characters. Jordan rushed right up into DJ Lance's arms and he was great picking her up and hugging her.

Mommy and her girls with DJ Lance and the Yo Gabba, Gabba characters.

After the show, it was home for a break and a P&J with grandpa.

Later in the afternoon, I took the girls to "A Simply Charming Holiday Gathering — themed Sugar Plum Tea." The loved the crafts at the tables for them to do.

The girls got the opportunity to visit with and get autographs from the stars of The Nutcracker while they were still in costume. The Chamberlain Ballet's The Nutcracker performance starred New York City Ballet dancers Jenifer Ringer and Philip Neal performing as the Sugar Plum Fairy, sovereign of sweets, and her Cavalier. Both girls love ballet so they were in awe to meet real life ballerinas.

Katelyn and Jordan with the Snow Queen and Snow King.





The next night, we attended our first Christmas party for the season at our friend's home. It was an awesome fun party.

Family photo taken at the party.

Jordan and her friend, Alyssa.

Jordan loved playing with all of her friends at the party. Some she has not seen since she moved schools so it was a happy reunion.

Santa arrived at the party!

Jordan and Katelyn with Santa. Both girls were so excited to see him.



Telling Santa that she wants "Kit" from American Girl for Christmas and a tap dress outfit for Kit.
Our family Christmas photo!

Jordan and her buddies.

Family Fun for Thanksgiving Weekend

A picture of the girls decorating our Christmas tree this past weekend. So we get the tree all decorated along with most of the rest of the house for Christmas and Jordan decides to play "Grinch". At first I think it is cute/funny. She is taking the stocking off the fireplace one by one and CHH tells her not to do it. I told him I didn't mind and it was cute that she was playing the Grinch. This was the case until she started taking the ornaments off the tree! It took forever to decorate the tree so unfortunately for Jordan her Grinch game came to an end :)

The girls playing dress-up as usual. Aunt Kara lets them play in her make-up and Jordan loves lipstick. This is hard on Jordan's Daddy to see her in any make-up or to allow the girls to play with it! :)

My sisters took a nap in our bedroom along with our cat, Siam. CHH was so funny. He walked in and saw them sleeping; he then commented that he wanted to take a bucket of water and pour it on them!

I thought this was cute. These are the "Little People" for Christmas. Jordan set them up and told me it was the scene from "A Little Drummer Boy" -- one of my favorite movies.

Jordan pointing out things to me in her scene.

My Dad, Kara and I took the girls to Chick-Fil-A for peppermint chocolate chip shakes. Talk about yummy!!

Katelyn and her Aunt Kara

Out to breakfast on Sunday...

My Jordie Bear

Jordan showing me her t-shirt from Yo Gabba, Gabba (another post to come). It was her "first concert"shirt! :)

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving 2009

Aunt Kara arrived in town and began making the sides for Thanksgiving. Jordie Bear loves to cook and was thrilled to help her Aunt Kara.

Our chef!

My husband, the co-chef, made deviled eggs as one of his dishes and boy were they yummy.

Aunt Kara did a lot of cooking with Katelyn on her hip!

My sweet Jordan eating her Thanksgiving dinner.

Katelyn at our Thanksgiving meal.

Jordan loves her Aunt Kara. The girls get so excited when their Aunt Kara visits.

Aunt Jill and Aunt Kara making a Jordan sandwich.

I love all of these girls!!

My Dad (Jordan and Katelyn's Grandpa) and his daughters. It was great to have Grandpa back in town for Thanksgiving.

A family pic on Thanksgiving day.

The girls' Uncle Marty is always playing and having fun with them. They love it.

It was a happy relaxing delicious Thanksgiving. Once again, I am personally reminded how blessed I am to have my family -- all of it and everyone. Jordan got an ear ache the night before Thanksgiving and I immediately took her to Acute Kids Wednesday night. Sure enough both ears had infections again. While there the doctor detected a heart murmur for her. Talk about your heart dropping quickly when you hear something you know nothing about. Anyhow my Dad who is a doctor and my sister who works in the health industry instantly assured CHH and I that this is common in little kids. We will get it checked out in a couple of weeks when we take her back for her ears but boy did we hug her even tighter that night. Our girls are our whole world as is my whole family. I love them all and am a very lucky girl.