Dolls

We have officially reached the doll stage with Meredith. Every day, Meredith plays with her dollies and dresses them up. She then puts them in all the places we put the baby. I spend all my time unstrapping dolls from the car seat, bouncy, and the swing. I'm just hoping that she never gets to the American Girl doll stage because I do not want to spend that kind of money on a doll. Many of her dolls are second hand right now. Whenever I see a nice clean Cabbage Patch doll at the thrift store for $2.99, I pick it up for her. I can't fathom spending $100+. Ack. I hope that day doesn't come.

We just visited Santa today and Meredith told him she wanted an Easy Bake Oven and some dollies she can dress. She also asked us why Santa has claws. That made me laugh.

For your entertainment, I took all these pictures on the same night after Meredith went to bed.

Yes, Meredith buckled the dolly into the car seat herself.

Elmo gets dolly treatment in our house.

The Exersaucer gets some love.

And the Bumbo.

And the swing.

And finally, the play gym. And yes, Elmo is wearing a dress.

Ice Skating

It's that time of year again...time for skating! We decided to put Meredith in skating lessons again this year. We had the intent of enrolling her in the same class she finished up with last year but she accidentally got enrolled in one level up (which is a class intended for ages 5+). She did fabulous! Look at all those bigger kids she skates with and she keeps up and is better than 3/4 of the other kids in the class :-) She is the little one in the black helmet and pink GAP hoodie below. She even skates all by herself in the practice area after each lesson. I actually had to bribe her with Halloween candy to get off the ice last week and she scolded me for putting my foot on the ice without skates.

I think she might be ready to start mites hockey next fall.

Check out the video below. They are practicing jumping. She is the one on the far left in the pink GAP hoodie.

Look how happy she is after she is done :-)