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.

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

After coming home from Kosen Rufu Gongyo (our Buddhist meeting), we stopped by REI to pick up Mimi's first pair of ski's. She is quite excited about them. So much so that she had to show them to grandma when we stopped by their house.

Papa is now up on the roof-top putting up the Christmas lights because Mimi is so worried that Santa will not be able to find our house without them. She says that Santa may get lost or something.

EVEN MORE SNOW

I guess the weatherman wasn't quite telling the truth. It was supposed to rain this afternoon, but guess what? NOT!!! It is still snowing as of now (8:12pm)and it is snowing pretty hard. Thank goodness mama did the grocery shopping yesterday.

Mimi is very excited about the snow so much that mama is having a hard time putting her to bed.

Mama: Mimi ! It's time to go to bed!!!
Mimi : But, I want to see the snow!
Mama: It will still be there in the morning.
Mimi: But I want to see SANTA!!!

MORE SNOW

This afternoon quite a bit more snow fell and is still falling at this hour. One can see a lot of kids outside making snowmen and snowballs. Mimi wanted to go to the park, so both mama and papa took turns pulling her on her snow disc. Once at the park she had a blast having snowball fights withe Erin.

SNOW

Early this morning Mimi came running downstairs yelling "mama it's snowing!!!" The weatherman was right for once.

So on with the snow clothes. The sad part is it will all be melted away by afternoon. The weatherman says that we should be expecting rain. Mimi says that if that happens we won't be able to have Christmas without any snow. ;-(

NEMO AND STANLEY

This afternoon mama caught Stanley taking swipes at the fish bowl. Thank goodness mama put a covering on it because Nemo is driving Stanley absolutley NUTS!!!