Happy New Year

Wren is wishing YOU a Happy New Year :)

Wren's hair

Wren's bed head is, on occasion, picture worthy.

One day, she woke up with horns...or wings...whatever you see here...

It's the kind of hair-do that makes you giggle a little every time you look at her.

No Wren, brushing it will not help, but if it makes you feel better...

By the afternoon, I may be kind and wet it down. Recently I tried doing some pigtails to see if her hair was long enough yet. It kind of worked.
She also insisted on wearing my scarf around the house.

She seemed to feel very important/grown-up/stylish/proud to be wearing the scarf. She could have cared less about the pigtails. The spoon? She likes to have a...sceptre/staff/wand/something-to-bang-on-stuff to carry around with her all day long. Today it was a spoon.


I present to you, the Queen on her Throne...

Christmas Eve and Day

An eventful couple of days can go by, and picture opportunities can be easily missed. I missed about 98% of those opportunities, so here are a couple from the past few days.

You know, dressing a kid up for special occassions is somewhat pointless. Wren stayed in this outfit for maybe the first quarter of the day, and then she ate a meal. Enough said.

But the toque always kills me, it's just so cute!

We spent a cozy Christmas Eve at my parent's house. So many goodies, it was nice to just hang out and basically watch Wrennie play. What else does a group of adults do when a child is in the room?

Aunty and Wrennie play with Abby Cadabby and the magic wand. Now Wrennie has her two most favourite dolls, Abby and Elmo!

This year I put together a photo book of Wren's first year for both of our parents. I made it on our computer with the iPhoto program, and it turned out amazing. My parents were beside themselves...in happiness! I was going to put up a photo of Kenton's parents opening their book, but Kyle got in the picture and he was only wearing a nightgown...no one needs to see that! ha!

Christmas 2010 family photo. I can't even find a family photo from last year to give you the comparison.

Wrennie also received a baby dolly. All she really wanted to do was bite it's toes. Maybe we will have to reintroduce the dolly at a later time...

Then we spent Christmas Day at Nana and Papa's. We brought Wren's little chair to sit in and enjoy opening presents by the fireplace.

In this picture, Nana is holding an Elmo tree ornament that talks and has music. Wren is playing with her blocks that she got from her uncles. They may be in her top 3 of favourite gifts, as she loves to knock down towers made from them.

 Nana and Papa also bought her a sled for going on winter walks. Fun!

Sadly I did not get any more pictures from that day...maybe someone else did and they want to send them to me?
After spending the morning at Kenton's parents, we went to his aunt and uncles in St. Albert where the rest of Kenton's relatives were for games and food. A few of us girls even took Wren for her first sled ride down by the lake, which she seemed to enjoy although it was hard to tell as her expression did not change throughout the ride. The lake is also part of a dog park, and Wren is terrified of dogs...like...convulses and cries. I am not exaggerating! So every so often when a dog came bounding near us, we had to move on pretty quick!

All in all, we had a great couple of days, and now Wrennie is played out. She actually has the flu...but hey, now all the festivities are done and we can all bum around home :)

Until next Christmas...

Ouch

A little shiner, right before Christmas. 

Wren's first "Haircut"

I finally gave in and gave Wren a "haircut". It wasn't really a true haircut...I only trimmed the super long bang hairs that she had since birth. They would always hang in her eyes, and I thought I could avoid this by putting a clip in her hair. After finding the clip in her mouth instead of her hair numerous times, I gave up.

But let's be serious, it's not like you can see a difference.

I had to leave her blonde streak alone though...I couldn't bring myself to snip that long blonde strand away.

"Um okay Mum, is this over now?"

Toilet paper!!