One of Vivi’s favorite Christmas presents was her new paints and paintbrushes. Her old paints were just about running out, so she was thrilled to have a brand new set. She wants to paint practically every day. She likes drawing and coloring, but she is definitely much more into painting lately.
Vivien also got new books for Christmas and some of those books in particular she loves and we have to read every night. Some of the books that she got we Curious George books, which we call Georgie books. Unlike our other Georgie books, these ones tell the same stories that the kids have seen on the show. Vivi found that to be especially thrilling; she liked to read the stories and then watch them in the morning.
I don’t know if it’s a stage that she’s going through or just her personality, but Vivien loves to help. I cannot cook anything without Vivi dragging the stool over to help! She loves to watch and she loves to get involved too. She has long loved to play in the dishwater when I’m washing dishes, but now she also washes dishes when she’s playing. Some of them weren’t exactly dirty to begin with but that ok! There are other little chores that I ask the kids to do and if I ask Ryder to do some vacuuming, then I had better find something for Vivi to vacuum too!
We had a crazy storm early this month and Vivi was thrilled with all the snow that we got. We went out during the blustery storm and I pulled Vivi around in her sled, after we did some sledding down our snow plow hill. Ryder and I walked down to the river, pulling Vivi along in the sled. The wind was absolutely whipping our faces, so we were all hunkered down into our scarves. After we checked out the river, we made our way home, at which point I noticed that Vivi had fallen asleep with her face tucked into her scarf while I was pulling her! It was freezing and windy as can be, so we were all amazed that she managed to fall asleep!
Out in the storm
A little cold swinging
She fell asleep!
Out the next day
She loves riding around in her sled
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