i am the entertainer, i bring to you my songs

sweet cheeks was given this cool new microphone w/ stand from our friend for christmas. she absolutely adores it. the girl loves to perform and i absolutely adore her concerts. the best part is the songs that she sings. it isn't anything from hannah montana or taylor swift, rather all sweet cheek orginals.

take a listen-

we had ourselves a merry little christmas

i knew it would happen. the holiday came and went so quickly. i am sad it is over. sweet cheeks keeps asking when santa or the elf are coming back. hard to explain how that works.

so here are just a few photos of the great events that took place over the last few days of the christmas holiday.

the husband brought home some reindeer food for sweet cheeks to spread out on christmas eve night. it sparkled under the light of the moon and made it easy for the reindeer to find our house. she loved doing it-




sweet cheeks in her christmas pjs. we were doing our 4th annual reading of 'twas the night before christmas,' as well as 'merry christmas little critter.' she loves the critter books by mercer mayer.



she actually went to sleep so easily on christmas eve night since she knew the big man wouldn't arrive till she was sound asleep. it was cute because she kept warning our dog not to bark at the reindeer or the sound of the jingling bells.

i will be honest when i say at 7:30am christmas morning, i finally woke sweet cheeks up. i thought for sure she would have woke up bright and early that morning, say around 5ish, ready to open presents. that didn't happen and the anticipation was killing me, so i whispered "ho ho ho" and she sprang out of bed so quickly saying, "santa came, lets go see what he brought."






she loved everything santa left for her, including her snap girls, pram stroller, cinderella, hannah montana doll, stickers, princess purse, nightgown, tees, and dress up gown. it was so much fun watching her unwrap everything in less than 15 minutes!

christmas day we went and had breakfast with the husband's family. sweet cheeks and her cousin both arrived wearing their princess gowns. they were so cute together!

just thought this was a good shot-




the girls in their dresses-



we celebrated christmas yesterday with my family. sweet cheeks spent the day playing with all 6 of her cousins. i would find her every so often and ask her if she missed playing with me! she was too busy having fun to think about mom. it was a great day as well.

***

tonight sweet cheeks asked me if i would do a photo shoot of her. this girl is such a ham & absolutely loves being silly. here are two of the cute shots-

another helper... another fake beard

in my previous post i said i didn't get any pictures of sweet cheeks with santas helper at her school party friday. but a sweet mom to another toddler in the class did take some and shared. so yippy! a few pics of sweet cheeks with the helper-






did you think it would be a picture of sweet cheeks without the tiara? of course not.

a busy weekend

we had a fun but busy weekend.

thursday- sweet cheek's grandpa, grandma, and 2 cousins(britney-15, kelley-14) came down for a visit. they stayed with us till saturday. she absolutely loved having the company. she talked, played, acted silly nonstop.

friday- was sweet cheeks holiday party at school. santa made a surprise appearance and gave all of the kids books. i, yet again, pointed out that it was santa's helper as santa and the elves were so busy back at the north pole making all of the presents. that evening, my sister came over with her two kids(ages 6 & 9), and my brother also came by. i so enjoyed being all together. later that evening, the husband and i headed out to finish up some christmas shopping. i knew my parents could handle sweet cheeks and her 3 cousins on their own. we finished the shopping, then headed to grab a quick beer & some chips n queso. it was a nice time for the two of us! i was able to drink a beer without being asked 20 questions from my 3 year old who thinks only daddy can have a beer.

saturday- my parents and nieces left, then sweet cheek's nana and papa took her christmas shopping. so the husband and i once again had a nice lunch out together. that evening we kept sweet cheek's cousin ellis(2 yo) for the night. she loved having company again.

it was a great weekend full of family. sweet cheeks had a few stingy moments, but overall she did a great job of entertaining everyone. sorry i was bad and have no pictures to share!

***

in keeping with the theme of cold, here are a few cute mitten hair clips from etsy-




***

i also found this table on etsy. it is creatively decorated with the floral & dot prints, and painted in beautiful pink tones. the reason i am sharing it is because i think it is non other than the ikea latt table i have shared before that sweet cheeks and i painted and covered with contact paper. so if you know how to paint, it is a cute way to add color to a table that comes so plain (and so cheap)-

new site

i have a new favorite website to share.

you have to see it!

it is galison

they have some really great stationery & office supplies.

like these really cute sticky notes. so much sweeter and brighter than the usual canary yellow 3x3 office ones i use-



another cute set. love the colors in this one-



pretty blues-




on this same website under the folder mudpuppy are some great kids things.

i love this puzzle. your child first gets to color it.
how fun is putting together a puzzle that you colored yourself-


i know a little girl, whom i like to call sweet cheeks, that would love this sticker book-


now go and check it out!

a warm head

i do not think i posted this pic yet of sweet cheeks with santa. her nana and pop took her two weekends ago to see santa, while the husband and i attended his christmas party. i was told she ran right up to santa and requested many presents for herself, as well as pink sneakers for me. she is so thoughtful, right.

so here she is with the big man-



i actually told her that this was one of santa's helpers because quite frankly, i thought this santa was a little on the scary side! i do not want her visions in her head of jolly ole st nick to look like him. she was ok with that.

***

it is so cold in so many parts of the u.s. right now but thankfully not where we live. i still thought i would share some really adorable baby hats. a little shop on etsy called nini's.

a quickie post

saturday we took sweet cheeks and her cousin to have their picture taken together, as well as separate.

OMG! all of the pictures turned out so well.

sweet cheeks was a complete ham for the entire thing, smiling non-stop and listening to directions given. it was such success.

here are a few of the photos-

sweet cheeks and ellis-



love these! i could just eat her up-



probably my favorite. she was just so comfortable! she really enjoyed it.



adorable with her ponytails.