New Year's Eve fun

During the day, we drove up to Adventure Park, USA outside of Frederick, MD. They have a lot of outdoor activities to do that we'll try out next summer, but they also had this cool inside playground that I enjoyed running through. There was also a kid's arcade, and some neat rides.

Road Trip to see my Fosko cousins

Two days after Christmas, we went to see my Fosko cousins. We had dinner with Daddy's friend Fr. Bob, who daddy went to St. Charles Seminary with. I enjoyed having dinner with Fr. Bob, he kept me entertained the whole time, and I think showed mommy and daddy a few tricks too. He has many nieces and nephews, and even some grandnieces and grandnephews.

I got this neat Lego set from my cousins, and we gave them books, which daddy had bought at the Scholastic Book Fair at St. Ann's Academy. Here's mommy playing Jenga with Kensie

Christmas Dinner

What about me? Thai, our cat, seemed to want to go to Christmas Dinner too, since he kept playing with one of the bags of presents. Later on, we went to Pops and Gams for Christmas Dinner. I got a Leapster Zippity, some clothes, puzzles, and a car with play tools. I had lots of fun, especially running around with my cousin Abbey. I also heard that my uncle Anthony had the same kindergarten teacher that I might have in two years at St. Ann's, Mrs. Leftwich.

Santa Came!!

Christmas morning I kept looking out the front door to see if Santa came. I guess I was expecting to see him at the front door. Then daddy directed me to look under the tree, where I saw all these presents!

I got this book from my teacher, Mrs. Kernan. I better have mommy and daddy read it to me and add it to the list of books I had read to me over Christmas Break. The librarian at St. Ann's (where I go to school), a.k.a. daddy, is hosting a pizza party for the class that reads the most number of pages!

Mommy's friend Dawn gave me these neat Bible story DVD's and a Bible story coloring book.

Santa gave me this neat car plate wall switch, which I helped daddy put up. He put the cat one that was in my room in mommy and daddy's room. Abbey got a wall plate from Santa too.

When I was in South Dakota my cousin Reagan had this cool game called Hungry Hungry Hippo so I was glad to get this for Christmas!

Here I am modelling the alligator towel I got from Nona. I had fun later on using it.

When mommy and her friend went to West Virginia Wesleyan College a few weeks ago, they went shopping for me for Christmas! Now daddy needs to get me some things from his alma mater, Drexel University. You know, daddy, I do have a birthday next month....

Here I am with some more books from Santa. They curiously look like books from the Scholastic Book Fair that St. Ann's had in November. I don't remember seeing Santa at the Book Fair!

I like salad, crab, and veal

Mommy and daddy have to record this for future reference. Tonight at Mamma Lucia's I had some salad, cucumbers, tomatoes, veal and crab, as well as my ravioli and chocolate cake. This morning we first went to the mall to do some last minute shopping. I enjoyed seeing the decorations at the mall. Then we went to the Rockville Library and I got to read some books while daddy did some genealogy. At church we had a Christmas Pageant with the reading of the Gospel.

Being in someone else's shoes

Yesterday I tried on daddy's slippers and walked around the house.
We then went to mommy's physical therapist's office, and I found a nice comfortable spot to sit and wait.

No pictures of today, though. Daddy and I tried to build a snowman, but the snow was too powdery. The same with toboganning, I just sank in the snow. We'll have to wait for the next snowfall to try snowmen and sledding again.

I also talked with and saw Rafaela, one of my favorite babysitters. She moved back to her native Brazil, but we were able to do a video phone chat using Skype. I kept asking her to come here, but didn't understand the concept of where Brazil was. I also got to see her mom and sister. It was fun, I got to learn how to say hello, Merry Christmas, and goodbye in Portuguese.

Snowed in

Here are a few pictures from the Blizzard of 2009.


Our deck and cars are well covered, and snow is piled high after shoveling the sidewalks. Daddy took the SUV out and pushed down the snow to make it easier to shovel. Then he decided to do the same with mommy's car and ended up getting it stuck, providing for some neighborhood entertainment.


We were helping our next door neighbor plow out too. She is leaving on Wednesday to visit her parents in Ghana. She'll have stories to tell them! Mommy also took me toboganning on the sidewalk. I'm not sure I'm ready to tackle the hill on the side of our house.

Talking with my foster family

Last night mommy woke me up and had a suprise for me. I was able to see my foster mother and family that I lived with in Guatemala. I saw Mama Rosa, Marlon, Marisol, and another grandchild. It was fun sharing pictures through the webcam, and I enjoyed seeing my foster mother, Mamma Rosa. I know she enjoyed seeing me. Daddy shoveled snow this morning so we can get out the front door and to the car.

My gingerbread house

Mommy put the gingerbread house together and put the icing on so I could help mommy and daddy put the candy on. Then I had a few candies, yum, yum! Now I am getting ready for bed, and looking forward to going sledding tomorrow with mommy and daddy. It's still snowing here!

Blizzard of 2009

Well, you'll have to look at Abbey's blog for some more pictures of today. This is as close as we got to going outside. Maybe tomorrow once it stops snowing we'll venture outside. Now daddy and I are just waiting for Montgomery County to make their decision about school on Monday and Tuesday. Loudon, Stafford and Morgan County school districts have already made their decision....

Abbey

Abbey came over to visit today, and I had so much fun! We played with Thai, made some shapes with Play-Doh, and played with my toys.

Playseum

This morning I woke up and put my sandals on. I said I wanted to go to the beach. Daddy even let me talk with Pops to tell him so. We decided it would be too cold, and Aunt Amy had told mommy of this new place that opened in Bethesda called the Playseum. It had a miniature Safeway, room with balls, art room, and plenty of other things to see and do.

Even better, mommy and daddy said that tomorrow Aunt Amy and my cousin Abbey are coming over for a visit. I can't wait to see them, and to play with Abbey and show her my cat, Thai.

Breakfast with Santa and running track

Yesterday, I went down to St. Ann's with mommy and daddy to help set up for Breakfast with Santa, and had fun running around with the other kids whose parents were also there setting up. I told mommy and daddy I didn't want to go to church. They didn't listen to me, so I showed them! I decided to have a track meet during church. I thought it was fun. Mommy and daddy were not pleased.

When we came this morning, Monsignor came over to me with a smile on his face, and said he wanted to make sure I survived the night. It was neat eating with a pre-K4 friend of mine, Tommy, and seeing even more kids, and having my picture taken with Santa.