Saturday, December 11, 2010

Disney Princesses on Ice

We got to see the Princesses on Ice Thursday and it was such fun! Quinn wasn't quite sure what to expect because she has never seen ice skating in real life before. They went through each princess story and all of the characters were there! Of course Quinn HAD to have some cotton candy!
This was Quinn's favorite part...the Princess Belle "Be Our Guest" performance. I liked the Sleeping Beauty one...it had this big scary dragon that spit real fire...so cool!

Quinn was too cool to wear the Flounder hat....guess I wasn't...ha!
Here is Tinkerbell in Cinderella's carriage during the finale. There are firecrackers going off everywhere...too bad I couldn't capture it all! Super fun night!

Mississippi Children's Museum


Get ready for a TON of pictures. We went to the MS Children's Museum last week and it was AMAZING! We had such a great time and can't wait to go back!

This was Tyndale's favorite part by far....he LOVED pretending to drive this tractor and kept asking to come back to it the entire time we were at the museum!

Quinn and Tyndale trying to pick up logs with this crane/tractor thing.

Quinn milking a cow.
Here Quinn is lifting the car with the jack...this wheel actually comes off and then you can put it back on...really cool!

In this little fruit and vegetable stand you can scan each fruit or vegetable and see the reason why it is so important to eat.

They had an outstanding art area...here is Quinn with one of the Wolfe paintings that the kids can emulate.

...digging up bones...

They both adored this area too...the little cook's kitchen. So fun. Quinn set the table for about 20 and cooked a turkey.

...looks like Tyndale is making fish.

I had to beg Quinn to do the velcro wall, but once she did I think that she liked it!

She also loved this rolling ball.

Her favorite part of the museum was right here, though...catching catfish in the river....
....weighing them to see if they were a "keeper"....
...here she is with two "keepers!"  They have a whole reading area based on the Between the Lions show on PBS, an area where you can travel through the entire digestive system, and MUCH more. We will definitely visit this museum as much as possible...it is a wonderful place!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Milk and Cookies with Santa

I wondered how it was going to go tonight...after we talked about going to see Santa all day long with Tyndale. Well...this is how it went....
...still not such a fan. Look how sweet Quinn is being..smiling apologetically at the elves behind the camera. And Tyndale is pointing at me like, " THAT is the woman that left me here and is making me SUFFER!" He was saying "all done! all done!" the whole time....breaks my heart, but have to laugh just a tiny bit. Next year he will probably not want to LEAVE Santa! Through all the hubbub Quinn didn't even get to tell Santa what she wanted for Christmas...so we wrote a letter at another table and I told her that I would make sure that Santa would receive it.
Tyndale is making sure that Aunt Betsy got enough cookies! See? He recovered! I kept asking him if he wanted to visit Santa again...and he said..."no no."  :)
Here is Quinn making some reindeer food.
Quinn and her friends Anna Grace and Georgia.

The Nutcracker

We went to see our third annual performance of The Nutcracker. We saw the Ballet MS performance and enjoyed it thoroughly. You might notice one new addition to our crew....Kate!! This is her first time to attend and the girls were so sweet about telling her the whole story and explaining what was happening.
Such a fun and special cousin/sister time!

Wesson Christmas Parade

Quinn rode in the Wesson Christmas Parade this year! She and the girls had such fun riding the ponies through the crowd...and I DO mean crowd! Those Wesson-ites really turn out for a parade!
Quinn's smile looks so genuine in the pic above. (ha!)
Quinn's pony Levi was Santa and the rest of the ponies were reindeer. Levi is quite the strong spirit...he kept nipping at me the whole parade. Sweet but stubborn.
Brad and Tyndale watching the fire engines line up for the parade...Tyndale was in heaven!  He kept saying "weeee-oooo!" They even threw him those smarties.
At some point during the Christmas season last year, Quinn said to me, " Mama, I NEVER want to be on stage OR in a parade in my WHOLE life." She is our little star, but she tends to be anxious about the attention of a big crowd. Let me say..she did not even HESITATE to be in this parade. Not once. I think that she is so driven by her passion for riding that she was able to find some confidence in it...and that makes me so happy for her!

Dancing...

...to Tchaikovsky getting ready for the Nutcracker. We have been playing The Nutcracker Suite for a few weeks now...enjoying the season!
Look at Tyndale's concentration in this picture...tongue out...fingers tightened. So funny!
(PS...just noticed the fingerprints on the window...ummm...something just moved to number one on my to do list tomorrow!!!)