From morning till night

Here's a day in the life of December...
(these pictures were actually taken over the course of a few days)


Wake up and go play in Mommy and Daddy's bed (because it is so much more fun to play in than her own bed)

Eat breakfast, then help Mommy with her chores. December's favorite thing to help out with is sweeping and mopping the floor -- which is good, because that's what she gets the most messy!

Then go play with the laptop. (December's not really supposed to play with the laptop, but I thought this was so cute that I had to take a picture. Brad and I were in another room, and Brad said, "Wait -- I think I hear the laptop keys being pressed." So we walked into the living room, and December had hopped up on the couch and was surfing the web.)

Next, eat raisins. On special days, December gets to go to Grandpa and Grandma's house (that's where she is in this picture). Then she gets to play in the pantry, yay!! Grandma gives her raisins, too.

Learn new things. Here she is learning how to spear things with a fork (that is an important skill to learn).

Now it's getting late, so it's time to get back into the pajamas...and pick out a book to read. If the synopsis on the back cover is good, she'll give it to me to read.

Then, bedtime. Good night, December.

In the clothes

December likes to climb into things, as you can see. If it's a bucket of some sort, you can be sure December will climb into it. Today is a slow day here. Not much is happening except mopping the floor, cleaning the bathroom, and calling our youth group kids about making props for our church's Vacation Bible School. All "mom stuff," as my Mom says.

Car Racing

Brad, December, and I waiting for the races to start

You may have to click on this picture to enlarge it so you can see better -- it shows some of the track and a smoking car

The Faster Pastor Race -- my dad is car #3, the second one from the left. The cars are lined up, ready to start.

There's my dad taking a turn

Here's my Dad, the racer!

On Saturday, we went to some car races. It was so much fun! At first, December and I weren't going to go, but at the last minute, we decided to go. I'm so glad we did! The track is a dirt track, but it had rained pretty hard not long before the races started. The track was turned into a complete slippery mud hole! What happens is people drive junky cars with almost everything torn out of them except the driver's seat (even the windows are taken out). It's pretty much a big kids' version of bumper cars. It was so fun to watch! There were cars smoking, losing wheels (yet still driving around the track as if they had all the wheels), etc. December waved to all the cars as they drove around. My Dad participated in the Faster Pastor race, the round where only pastors could race. His car kept on dying on him and would only start up when he'd get smashed by another car. At the last lap, his car completely died, and since no one hit him after that, he never got to finish. How fun to watch these cars drive so fast and hit each other! It was great.

Feeding our Canadian friends

We set out to give our bread crusts to Canadian geese, but we found ducks first -- these ducks had already been fed, though. There's nearly an entire bag of Cheerios scattered on the ground.

At last we find our Canadian friends! Look how many of them there are -- see them dotting the grass in the background?

Even though we were being kind by feeding them, they were still very angry with us. That goose in front is hissing at Brad (it sounds just like a cat hissing)

This family had lots of babies (more hissing from the goose)

Brad helps December throw bread crusts to the geese

Brad and December walking down the path, watching the dog pass by

Last night, we went for a walk in a park. We can walk to it from our house, and it's a beautiful park. It runs alongside the Grand River, so there's always ducks and geese there. In the spring there are ducklings and goslings! We decided to find them and let December feed them. The geese are extremely protective of their babies, so we couldn't let December walk too close to them. Last night was one of those nights where it was warm, but you probably wouldn't get too hot if you just sat in a lawn chair in your backyard. However, if you were our for a walk, you got super hot. We were walking for over an hour, so we got quite warm! It was nice to be outside, though.