LIGHTENING McQUEEN

Mimi now has a new addition to her race car collection - a new tent and slippers.

EINSTEIN

This is Mimi just after she wakes up in the morning. It's a condition known as "Einstein Head" in the Putney household. When Auntie Setsue saw Mimi with this condition 3 years ago, that's what she started to call her and the name has stuck to this day.

TINKERBELL

Tinkerbell is flying off to Neverland (bed) after sprinkling her pixie dust everywhere.

HAMBURGERS

Today the roads were clear, so after gymnastic school Mimi and mama made a run for the Northbend outlet mall. By the time we finished, we were quite hungry and decided to stop at McDonald's for something to eat on the way home. Mama asked what kind of happy meal does she want. Mimi replied "hang-a-burger" (she still has a bit of trouble pronouncing hamburger). Mimi then proceeded to goof around with her words. She went from hang-a-burger to hang-a-booger. She laughed and laughed about that one. I guess that when one is almost 5 years old, the more disgusting something is, the better. Oh well, que sera sera.

WHATEVER MIMI HAS.....

Whatever Mimi has her friend Blake has to have. Mimi has long since worn shoes with lights, Blake now has them, Mimi has a Lightening McQueen race car rug, Blake went out and bought a Nascar rug, Mimi has The Polar Express dvd, Blake went out and bought the same dvd, Mimi now has a Beta fish, Blake wants one. The latest is, last weekend Mimi picked up her first pair of ski's from REI, yesterday Blake went out to get his ski's. So now they both can go skiing together. Plus unlike mama, papa ski's and so does both of Blake's parents.

Yesterday while shopping for lunch, mama bought Mimi a "Lightening McQueen" sippy cup. Although Mimi doesn't drink from sippy cups because "they are for babies like Bailey", she will drink from it with the lid off. Works out well anyways, because when Bailey comes over, she now has a cup that she can use. Mama is just waiting for the same cup to show up at Blake's house.

This all just cracks me up.

PLAYDATE WITH LIAM

After school today, Mimi's school chum Liam came over to play for a while. They had a blast goofing off with the Santa hat.

Later in the evening, Blake and little sis Bailey came over to play. Our Mimi is quite the social butterfly.

Needless to say, we did not make it to the community center tonight.

NO MORE SNOW

Well folks, the snow has turned to slush. YUCK!!! It rained all day and night yesterday and will continue until tonight. We are scheduled to have a huge windstorm to boot! The storm has already hit the Oregon coast yesterday.

Today mama and Mimi are planning to go to the indoor playground in about a half hour. Later in the afternoon she has school. This evening we are planning to go to the community center for some more toddler time and meet Santa but if it is too windy, we will mostly likely stay home.
Mama is not much for one driving at night here especially with bad weather. I tell you, this weather has been quite unpredictable lately.

Last night, papa and Wade (Blake's dad) made plans for skiing this weekend. Hopefully the road condition will be good. Although there is quite a bit of snow in them thar' hills, many drivers still drive fast and their cars have either slid off the road or are stuck on the side of the road. A few trucks have jackknifed also. Mama saw this when coming home from REI and on the news last night.