Well-Child Visit

We finally took the girls in for their two- and three-year well child visits. Here's how they measured:

• Elizabeth: 28th percentile for height, 18th percentile for weight 
• Heidi: 84th percentile for height, 49th percentile for weight

Yay for healthy kids! And double yay for not needing any shots!!

Build a Bear Workshop

For Christmas, Grandpa Miller gave the girls gift cards to Build a Bear, so today we took the girls to the mall:

In front of the stuffing machine.

Giving her bear a heart.

 

Fluffing her bear.

Brushing his fur.

Heidi's turn!

Heidi resisted putting the heart inside her puppy.

Combing the puppy. (Fluffying the puppy was too noisy and scared her.)

Heidi carried her Build A Bear from inside the mall, through the parking lot, and all the way to the van--without any help.

The finished product, with accessories.

 

 

More Christmas

We got back to Toledo last night, and this morning we found another present from Santa under our tree:

The girls also enjoyed coloring their castle from Uncle Eric and Aunt Donna:

And playing in the box that Grandma Miller sent:

Christmas Continued!

We got home to Toledo tonight, and we had more presents waiting from us from Grandma Miller. Yay!

Winter in New York

We just spent the last week and a half in New York. It snowed just about every day we were there.

Check out the ice stalagmites.

I don't know if you can tell, but one of the icicles is just a few inches away from touching the floor of the porch.

In this picture, you can kind of see how deep the snow is.

The woodpile, buried in snow.

The parking lot next door. The snowplow plowed the snow into a huge mountain, mroe than a story tall. 

More icicles.

The church across the street... Isn't it beautiful in the snow?

P.S. We turned off our heater while we were out of town, and we returned home to a 31-degree house.

"Pupcakes" and Candles

45 candles!

Blowing out the candles

That is some good (vegan) cake and (almond milk) ice cream!

Happy Birthday, Grandpa Baker!

Last night we went to Olive Garden to celebrate Grandpa's birthday: