1/15/16: Allison's School Birthday

Allison celebrated her 2nd birthday at school with fruit snacks in her new room, Crickets, at school .  She loved her crown but was happy when mommy came to take her home.

Hugging Ms. Val

Pointing to her name on the Happy Birthday sign

Time to go home!

Girls

These two are just so much fun and couldn't get any cuter!

Allison has taken a liking to "doing" Madelyn's hair

Up to no good - sneaking lip gloss

I found matching clothes in their closets just by chance :)

Allison following what Madelyn did

Swinging Monkeys

Allison loves her blankies

Madelyn loves this chair

Fun with Cousins

It's always fun when you get to play with your cousins.

The kids discovered that if they put the pan lids down in the carpet, they made circles!

The circles were better if they sat on them :)

Madelyn loved seeing Juliana and Aunt Beth in Mary Poppins!

Look at the pyramid these two made at the Dupage Children's Museum

12/30/15: Enjoying more snow

We were lucky to get a number of great snowfalls this winter and the girls loved it!

12/29/15: Chicago for the day

Since we hadn't been able to go to Chicago for Connor's birthday, we all decided to go in after Christmas.  Beth, Juliana, Connor, Grandpa, Madelyn and me all took the train down to see the window displays and the big tree in the Walnut room at Macy's. Madelyn had a wonderful time and loved riding the subway and bus. She also loved writing her name on the wood at Ginos East Pizzeria where we stopped for lunch. It isn't often when graffiti is allowed and encouraged!! Unfortunately, our bus was late so we didn't make our train home and had to wait another hour. The kids were amazingly good about it though.

Playing outside while we waited for Macy's to open

The walnut room tree

Riding the subway, she wouldn't sit down

Lego store

12/28/15: Giese Christmas

Later that day, we celebrated again with my family.

Allison didn't want to take a picture, she wanted to OPEN her cars. She had been asking Aunt Beth for cars for over a month.

Nail set

Both girls got nail sets

Madelyn was so excited to get Anna's Coronation dress for her and her doll!

This girl is always on the phone

Darth Vader Connor

Darth Vader Allison :)

Allison started hording all the toys in the kitchen!

Learning Resources Counting Cans