Christmas Good Times

Let the good times roll! Merry Christmas to everyone and I hope you all had as good a time as we did her at the Soloy household.
Rowyn "got it". She got Santa and understood what presents were and thoroughly enjoyed all of the holiday treats that were out on display for the last few weeks. The present opening was fantastic. She got so into it that when we got over to my parents house on boxing day she was an old hat at it. She didn't even wait for an invitation she just waltzed right over to the tree, selected a nice size present and proceeded to open it. Too bad it was a gift for my mom and not for her.
Everyone spoiled Rowyn rotten, Santa, Mummy and Daddy and all the grandparents and aunts and uncles, cousins, friends and Khaos. The girl has more hair things, more cute outfits, more shoes and play toys that I could have ever imagined. She's latched herself onto some of them already. The My Little Pony driving the little scooter with it's own remote controller is a big hit, all of the purses and bracelets and necklaces and hair ties get carted around all over the house, and the LARGE Elmo doll is drooled on and has had his initiation in the stroller already.
I can hear Rowyn right now talking to Khaos "....Auntie and shoes, and tie it up, and I found more money and put it in my bank Mama, and Khaos MY SHOES!!". Oh ya. We got it all these days. So amazing and fun.... and tiring..... Rowyn's slept like a champ these last few days with all of the excitement.
Here are some pics for your viewing pleasure. More Christmas pics when I get the downloads from all the family.


Christmas Eve - putting Cookies and Milk out for Santa

Christmas Morning - Looking at the empty plate.

Family Self Portrait - Christmas morning around our tree

Rowyn and cousin Ty sharing fish at Heather's house

Grandpa Andy and Rowyn - Rowyn helping Grandpa open his gifts

Sibling rivalry

Rowyn was hanging out in the living room yesterday afternoon playing with all her toys while I was getting dinner ready. She was playing with Julianna - her cabbage patch doll and giving her some water from her sippy cup. I can hear her talking and was kind of amazed at the conversation that went on. It went something like this

" Juie-anna, haz sum wadder. Oh-oh dirty face juie-anna. Wipe off. Mama! Kleenex peeze! Juie-anna haz wadder all over".

She came over, got a Kleenex from me and proceeded to wipe off the water on her face, the floor, Julianna's clothes. They the conversation continues.

"Want more wadder Juie-anna? Mmmmmmmmm more. NOOOOOOO!!! AZA (Khaos) MY JUIEANNA!!"

Khaos had wandered in on the cleaning up and wanted to lick up the water. Rowyn proceeded to tell Khaos to go lie down and go away. The two of them were having a little shoving match. A 30 lb kid trying to push an 80 lb dog away. I wonder who was winning?

I guess Rowyn will have to deal with sibling rivalry after all.

These are a few of my favourite things.....

I thought I'd post a quick comment as Rowyn is hangin' out with Daddy "watching dirt bikes". Yes, dirt bikes. She likes to watch Brad play PlayStation and he has a dirt bike game. She requests dirt bikes every night. This is fine when Brad's home, but when he isn't, Rowyn's out of luck. I can't even run the PlayStation never mind figure out how to work the controller.

We're in full Christmas swing here. We've been talking about Santa, but that's as far as we've gotten. Every time we're at the mall I ask Rowyn if she'd like to sit on Santa's knee and the immediate answer is "NoooooOOO!!!". We'll eventually get there I'm sure. We've decorated our tree, we've built a snowman, we've decorated a gingerbread house and managed to eat half of it the same day we decorated it, and we're obsessed with the snow. Every waking moment Rowyn's telling us "Dad, hey Dad! There's snow outside!" It's great but a little wearing on the nerves after the 50th time before 8:30 a.m. Rowyn's singing Jingle Bells. Along with ABC's, Twinkle Twiknle, Frara Jaquea (Not sure how to spell it), You are my Sunshine, and many many other songs. It's great to hear her belt them out. She's even relatively in tune.

Here are some recent pics... Enjoy!

Reading Stories in Bed. Rowyn's favourite book "Elmo's Blanket". We read it EVERY NIGHT. (Not the most flattering pic of me... Brad always seems to get my not so best angle but cute nonetheless)



Our first Snowman! We had fun. Every time we walk out of the house Rowyn screams "Look Mama - a Snowman!". He was created just before dark on a week night so the pics are a little on the dark side.