SteelyKid decided she needed to put on her Christmas outfit earlier tonight, and her day care class at the Jewish Community Center has begun celebrating Chanukah, so it seemed like a good night for a festive holiday Toddler Blogging picture, with some bonus Feats of Strength:
Look! SteelyKid can lift a sky-bison all by herself!
A second photo, with a slightly clearer view of her Christmas outfit:
Joking aside, happy holidays to everybody who's celebrating some sort of holiday at this time of year. And, you know, the rest of you just have a nice day.
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Oh, my. Just when I thought the pictures couldn't get any cuter! (Silly me.) I love these. Thank you, as always.
It can't be that hard to lift a sky bison they do seem to float in the air.
Oh my goodness, she is beautiful. And adorable. And I like the skybison, too.
(Our little guy is now pulling up to standing at every opportunity. They do wreak a lot more havoc as they get bigger, don't they?)
Rachel, yup. Though she is at the point where we are pretty comfortable with her being out of sight but within earshot. (For instance, she likes to go to the back door to "cook"--she pretends the panels of the door are an oven. Or she tells us, "I going cookie store" and swipes expired credit cards in the crack of the folding door to the basement.)