Drum roll please....

As you know, Ervin's new game is pushing chairs around in the kitchen. He also loves pushing his hippo toy around the living room, correctly and also with the hippo upside down. He's also been standing very well on his own without support for a while. But today, he did the amazing.

While my visiting teachers were here today giving a message, the kids were playing in Lizzy's room. Ervin was in the hall, standing with his hands against the wall, whining for mommy to come get him. I went to him and asked if he wanted to play with the girls in Lizzy's room or come with mommy to the living room. He decided he wanted to come with mommy, so I reached my hands out to him. Normally, he drops to the floor and crawls to me, or stands there holding out his arms and waits for me to come to him. Not today. He took 3 or 4 shaky baby steps into my open arms!! Hooray for Ervin! Hopefully this isn't a one time deal and he will do it again soon and not wait a long time to do it again!

Family Night at the Library

We're really getting into the programs they have available at the local library! It has been a lot of fun!

Tonight we went to the family night, which they do once a month at the library. It was a special Christmas "Hoopla" and we had a great time.

Two men and two women did a little play that was hilarious. The two girls were "Whos" from Whoville and were reading the story of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Then they announced that the Grinch was in the building and asked him to come out from back stage. Unfortunately, there was no Grinch. There was only Marcello, who was a no eyed, no eared, blue monster with a stringy beard. It was very cute. One guy was the body and the other guy stood behind and was the puppeteer for the face and provided the voice of Marcello.

Marcello was asked if he would play the part of the Grinch, and he agreed. However, he is the exact opposite of the Grinch; he loves Christmas. So all the while he's being himself while the Whos kept correcting him on how he should be acting. There was even good humor for the adults as well as the kids.

After the play, we were led upstairs for fun crafts. There was a long table set up for decorating cookies with fun "easy spray" frosting and sprinkles. In another room there were tables set up for decorating paper ornaments. Lizzy got a little kit with stickers to decorate a 3-D snow globe ornament. However, there were too many kids decorating ornaments, and Ervin was pretty tired, so we went home to decorate the ornament and get Ervin to bed.

Music and Movement

Yesterday we went to the library for a Music and Movement class that they do weekly for kids. It was a blast! Ervin had fun, and eventually Lizzy warmed up to it, even though it wasn't a Princess Party.

Ervin sat on the rug with mommy for a bit, then decided he wanted to go sit with Lizzy on grandma's lap. Then he sat with us for a bit until both kids decided they wanted to be in the action with the kids on the rug and went. It was a lot of fun singing songs about Christmas time, and they even got to ring bells while they sang. They finished with a story about Frosty the Snowman. We will definitely go back! They have a class for older kids which I think Lizzy would enjoy more.

Also, we spent a great day with grandma doing crafts, shopping, and going out to eat. Lizzy helped punch out eyes and glue on buttons. It was great fun! Thanks grandma!

Festival of Trees

This year we went to the Festival of Trees with Grandpa Jay and Grandma Anderson. We were expecting the kids to love it, but it was an overstimulating experience, for all of us. We had a good time though.

There were tons of big trees, little trees, wreaths, centerpieces, and all other kids of art. On top of all of that, there are performers, crafts, lots of food, activities, and Santa. There were a lot of neat trees. One was made all of glass and it was connected to a series of evergreen trees and glass presents and did a music and light show. Wow! The guard lady nearby the tree said that tree sold for $27,000.00. Mommy heard of a Twilight themed tree donated by the Salt Lake Twilighters Anonymous. It had Twilight themed ornaments and had presents under the tree that could have be given to characters in the book.

Afterwards, we went to Daddy's favorite, Crown Burger! Lizzy marched right up to the counter and gave her standard McDonald's order "chicken nuggets, fries, juice box, and a toy". Ervin inhaled a burger and fries.

We had a great time and hope to go again! Here are some pictures I took with my phone.

Princess Party!

Lizzy and mommy went to a fun princess party tonight at the Springville Library. It was a special reading time for girls ages 3-6 to come and wear their princess attire. We had such fun! There was Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Snow White, and Jasmine there. By the end there were about 20-30 other little girls all dressed up. They just kept coming and coming! Belle and Ariel each read a story to the girls, followed by cookies and a fun bookmark making activity! We had a great time and we will definitely go to other activities at the library in future.