A new kitchen!

Grandma and Grandpa Friederich bought Regan a new kitchen for Christmas and it's definately one of her favorite new toys. We made a wise decision and ended up assembling the huge toy in our living room and it's staying right there for now. Given it's the most played with toy right now, it didn't make sense to hide it in the basement. We love watching as she cooks up eggplant, asparagus and a DQ ice cream cake all in one pot! Her imagination is really at work lately!

Christmas Eve at Nana and Papa's

We spent Christmas eve at Nana and Papa's in New Ulm. It was a wonderful evening and not your traditional Christmas eve meal...sauerkraut and dumplings!!! We were in heaven :) Regan was exceptionally well-behaved in church, I think the bribe to open presents worked well, we might have to use it more often!

I'm cute!

Regan might have been sick, but she sure looked cute posing for the camera Sunday evening!

Merry Christmas!

It was another rough start to the weekend as Regan unfortunately picked up a stomach bug from daycare (?or maybe she's getting her molars?). Whatever the case, Friday, Saturday and Sunday were not the best days for any of us. We did manage to open presents from Santa on Saturday morning and drive to New Ulm without much trouble at all. She adores her new art table/easel from Santa and was so excited that she refused to open the rest of her presents!! In fact, it took her over 24 hours to open her last present and that darn toy made it all the way to New Ulm with us before she actually decided she'd open it. The pics above are with her and her new art table.

Rachael Ray!

Tonight while daddy went to the Vikings game, mommy and Regan made a quick stop at the Mall of America to see Rachael Ray! She was having a book signing event and the crowd was unbelieveable. It was fun to see her, but there was no way Regan was waiting in that line to get her autograph so we took some pictures and headed home.

Swimming!

Regan's been talking about a pool for a long time; constantly wanting to go in a pool. Today she got her chance! We didn't have time go swimming last night at the hotel, so this morning after breakfast, we promised her we would go swimming. She held us to our promise and she had so much fun! The last few times we've taken her swimming, she's been incredibly apprehensive of the water and pretty fearful of going in. This time, she even got brave enough to try jumping into mommy's arms!

Shake your booty

Regan was our rock star on the dance floor at Jeff and Chrissy's wedding Saturday evening; she kicked up her heels off and on for over 2 hours! We thought she had enough around 9pm as she fell asleep while dancing with mommy, but she quickly woke up and got her "second wind". I apologize for the fuzzy picture, she was moving too fast!

A rough start

Moments after we got on highway 62 this weekend heading for St. Cloud for the final wedding of the year, our car got a flat tire. The worst part is that these tires are only 3 weeks old....we haven't even received the bill for them yet!! Thankfully we got a quick tow and were back on the highway with the other vehicle in less than one hour. Regan did amazingly well and really enjoyed the tow truck ride! (The driver suggested we just hold Regan, but as you can see, the top picture is of mom strapping her car seat into the truck). Although we were late, we quietly slid into church and had a wonderful rest of the weekend.

Sharing with Elmo

Mommy caught Regan being so nice today as she shared her snack of dry cereal with Elmo. It was adorable because the cereal actually went into Elmo's mouth and she thought he was eating it! Hours later she went back over to Elmo and found a piece of cereal inside and snatched it out and ate it!!

Oh yea, and she's not wearing any bottoms because we're attempting potty training and it makes much less laundry when we just turn up the heat and forego wearing pants. Not much progress yet, but we're staying patient.

Happy St. Nick's day

We celebrated St. Nick's day over the course of a few days so we could enjoy all the gifts instead of opening them all at once. I happened to enjoy Regan's new Cabbage Patch doll the most, brings back so many memories! Regan's enjoying feeding her new doll and giving her stroller rides.

Snowstorm

We spent the first day of the first snowstorm of the season shopping, decorating our Christmas tree and of course, sledding! We only broke one ornament while decorating the tree, which is pretty good considering we only have German glass ornaments. Tonight before we laid Regan down to sleep, she had to say good night to all the ornaments ("ni-ni baby", "ni-ni house", "ni-ni football" and finally "ni-ni lights"); it was absolutely precious.