A Beautiful Fun Filled Saturday

Allie's new friend Kylie (her mommy works with me). They hit it off right away.

Allie and I had busy day today. We started by going to the free kids movie at the theatre with some of my friends and their kids. We thought it was going to be Robots, but when the movie started we found out it was Madagascar. After the movie we headed to a pizza place for lunch. The kids had a great time. After that Allie, Alex, Julie and I headed to the History Center for horse drawn sleigh rides. The Special Olympics were having a fund raiser, which included sleigh rides, hot cocoa, cookies, a fire and a small skating rink. This was Allie's favorite part of the day. She wanted to ride in the sleighs all day. They were old sleighs that the horses pulled. All of the horses seemed very nice and the rides were quite smooth. After our first ride we enjoyed hot cocoa and cookies by the fire. Then we went on another ride. Allie was upset that her "Sassy" wasn't there.

We rode on this sleigh the second time.

Allie really liked these horses.

Alex, Allie & me

Allie and I enjoying our second ride. Allie was so exhausted that she fell asleep in the car on our way home.

StoryTime

This is what I found one evening when I came upstairs. Allie was sitting in Etnie's dog bed, reading Etnie a story. She was up there for a long time entertaining the dog. Etnie is quite wild still, so she isn't out all of the time. Hopefully she will calm done a little now that we can take her outside to run. Allie loves Etnie very much. She has to give her hugs and kisses all the time.

The First Nice Day!!

Etnie attacking Allie in the snow.

Allie posing for the camera. Isn't she cute!!

Etnie had lots of fun chasing after Allie and pulling her to the ground. She had lots of fun playing outside.

Etnie looking innocent, but she really isn't. She found the couple of spots in the fence where the gaps are big enough for her to fit through. We will have to get those taken care of as soon as it is nice enough. Etnie also ran into the fence because she thought she could just run to the front yard from the back. It was quite entertaining.

Allie making a snow angel. This was the 2nd attempt, her first one failed because she was lying on her stomach trying to do it.

Etnie & Allie

A Fun Day of Skating

Allie with Alex and Gus at Cold Stone eating cotton candy ice cream ( a couple of my co-workers' kids). We went to Cold Stone after an hour of ice skating at the Rec Center.

Allie and I ice skating. She got pretty heavy and I ended up with a backache, but we had lots of fun. All of the things to push around for the little kids that didn't know how to skate were taken. It was very busy.

Here Allie is excited to get out there and try ice skating until we got to the edge, then everything changed. She didn't really want to, but Julie (a friend from work who babysits Allie once in awhile) took her out and she was fine. Once she was on the ice then it was ok for her to skate with me.

Allie got some ice skates for Christmas so we a wanted to try them out before they wouldn't fit her any longer. When we were done skating I told her that Daddy could come with us next time and she told me that, "I could stay at home and her and daddy could go skating because I didn't know how to skate." It was pretty funny. She also asked why the other kids already knew how to skate.