Adventures in the snow & Tree Decorating

Well Luella's reaction to the snow isn't exactly what we'd expected. Her new favorite words are 'a mess' and that is exactly what she thinks of the snow! She was very content to just sit in her chair with her feet off the ground.

Luella was pointing out to Daddy that our tree was making 'a mess'.

First sledding trip around the yard.

Black Friday Shopping!

Luella and I scanned the ad's and headed out (at 9am). We didn't find very many treasures. I did learn one lesson however, if you need to buy milk on Black Friday...well, drink water instead.

First Hair Cut

Aside from trimming her bangs this is her first haircut at 18 mos! Luella did pretty well, Mommy was prepared with gummy worms! Luella is so used to having her hair blow dried and fixed every morning this was nothing. Luella even gave Jackie a big hug when she was done.

Here is her before photo

And some during and after photos

More Daddy!

This is one of Luella's favorite things. I zoomed in on her face in the second photo so you can see how happy she was. Even though it looks like she is on our second level...she really wasn't that high.

Halloween

Finally after months of anticipation Halloween arrived and Luella got to dress up in her Cheer Bear costume. Before we left to go trick-or-treating with Grandma and Grandpa Icenhower we taught Luella how to say something that vaguely resembled 'trick-or-treat' and then we were off!
My mom (or should I say The Cat in the Hat) had a Halloween party for her daycare a couple days before Halloween and since there were so many cute costumes Luella was able to pretend to be a chicken, Minnie Mouse and a fairy too!

Pumpkin Carving

Well we waiting until the last minute (Halloween night) to carve our pumpkin this year and to be honest we only cut the top off and gave up. But that was enough to have a lot of fun and get really messy! Luella started our carving session by hugging and kissing her pumpkin and then she colored on him with her crayons. Daddy took over after that. We didn't play for long before the slimy pumpkin was too much for Luella to handle so we gave her a bath in the kitchen sink.

Larry has found a new home...

In honor of our little Larry (and to prove that Luella was, at times very nice to him) I've posted some pictures. We love you Larry!!