Trains and Santa

With this nice long weekend it seemed like a good idea to go have some fun with just the three of us so today, we headed out to Breton Village Mall to see the train, the fish and santa.  Jacqueline loves the big koi fish in the ponds at Breton, and the Christmas train display was  a lot of fun too. 

She was not so sure about Santa but she was willing to sit on his lap for a few minutes and she liked him once he gave her a Candy Cane for being a good girl this year. (It's so nice that at Breton you can go see santa without having to pay, you just need to bring your own camera.)  

This last photo is Jackie in her new outfit from Grandma, Grandma made it!  Today when I asked her what she wanted to wear I was trying to steer her toward a different shirt thinking we would save this outfit and keep it clean, but she knew what she wanted and as you can till by the photo she was quite proud to show it off.  Her favorite part is the sparkly pink pompom at the top of the tree. So cute Grandma, Thank-you.

Grace's Room

 So anyone who knows me knows as a kid I love, love loved Clifford the Big Red Dog.  He was by favorite stuffed animal and I had all the Clifford books.  So there was debate if Jackie's room would be decorated with Clifford but we went with Seuss instead.  This time around I could not resist.  So here is a sneak peak at the projects I have been working on for Grace's room.  First is a painting for her wall.  Then her dresser with close ups of some of the illustrations.

Thanksgiving

Here is a few snapshots of family thanksgiving.

 The kiddos pretending to be superheros

 Sweet little Ava

 Yes, those are thanksgiving presents, Nativity scenes so that Austin and Jackie can learn the real meaning of christmas. 

It was a fun long and silly day.  A good time had by all. 

A future scrapper

So once every 6 weeks or so, most of the Faasse family women and a few friends of Aunt Cheryl's get together for a 'Stamp it up' class.  Really it's a chance to talk, laugh and craft.  I think my favorite part is listening to Kate and Abby recite lines to movies, 'New in Town', 'Tommy Boy', and 'Christmas Vacation' all last week.  We got our new supplies for class on Sunday and Jacqueline was so excited to help Aunt Kate test her new stamps.  Take a close look at the photo and you will see she likes to stamp her hands, not the paper.  I think this is because she gets a stamp on her hand for being a good listener at play group.  Regardless of stamping her hands instead of her paper, she is loving crafts more and more all the time.  Crayons are good but she loves when I let her paint in my studio.  Stickers and stamps get worn not put on paper but she loves those too.

Just had to include this photo from this morning.  Jacqueline has been into bows, and almost every time I ask her what bow she wants to wear she either wants an easter bunny bow or this giant purple flower.  Needless to say these two choices do not always work with her outfit in my opinion and so I steer her into another choice.  So this morning when I agreed she could wear the big purple flower I had a very smily happy little girl. It's nice when she and I can agree on clothes and bows.

Fun with Dad

It was a long weekend, I was sick for a most of it and so we really did not have a chance to have a lot of fun.  We even missed Austin's birthday party, (the pictures on Abby's blog and Cheryl's pinterest were darling, so sad not to see all the dino fun in person.) So today since everyone was feeling good we headed to the mall, Jacqueline loves the carousal, 'roun n roun' in her words. It's one of those special treats that I try not to do unless there is a reason.  Tonight the round and round was dad's treat, since he heads out of town tomorrow. She had a blast if you can not tell from the pictures.

It's a girl

We had another ultrasound today, baby is doing great, Jacqueline was wonderful at the doctors office and it's going to be another girl.  Jackie will have a little sister in Feb.

19 Month Photos

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It's hard for me to believe that she is 19 months old already.  Time seems to be moving by way to fast.  Right now Jackies favorite books are "Giraffes can't Dance" (that's Gerald from the book in her arms), "Put me in the Zoo" and "10 Little Rubber Duckies."  By far our favorite Character in all things is Elmo.  Favorite food is Mac and Cheese or Apples dipped in Peanut Butter, not really food but she has been loving Pez candy in church on Sundays.  She likes to paint more then color with crayons but both can keep her entertained for a long time and lately she had been very excited about Puzzles,  (taking after Oma on that one.) 

Two year molars are making her just a little drooly in the pictures.  Jacqueline is incredibly independent these days wanting to feed and dress herself and make her own decisions on everything.  I am trying hard to embrace her new found independence and let her be in control when she can be but it is still hard for both of us.  My little girl is just growing up too quick.

Halloween

Even though she had two costumes to choose from Halloween night Jacqueline really did not want to wear either one, she was a little tired but we tried anyway to get some pictures of her in moose outfit.

 She really did better with costumes over at the cousins house, Austin wore Jackie's elmo, and Jackie wore Abby's owl.

Once we got home last night she loved passing out candy to the trick or treaters, and this morning she put on her elmo costume and kept going to the door "tick teet" she would say and reach in to my candy monster hoping to find the treats that were there the night before.