Ice!

Well today our wonderful winter weather continued with an ice storm. Thankfully the roads were driveable within a few hours but the driveway was pretty dicey for a while.

The ice has done this to one of our lovely new trees though. Hopefully it will recover ok once the ice melts. The pre-iced tree is to the left of Amelia's head in the second picture in the post below.

Amelia's First Snowman

Well it's finally warmed up a bit (to just about freezing) so this weekend Amelia and Kevin headed into the back garden to build a snowman. Amelia was responsible for the frowny face - no idea why but am impressed that she made a uniform shape with it.

Merry Christmas

It was a nice white Christmas in Iowa. The first picture is Amelia wearing her new robe and reading the book "The Night Before Christmas" from Grandma Marilyn.

This year Amelia was very focused on opening any presents in sight. As soon as she opened a present she wasn't interested in playing with it, just in opening the next present. Later in the day she enjoyed playing with them. It was a good Christmas for all.

Visiting Father Christmas

Lets just say, she wasn't impressed.

Sledding

Today we tried out one of Amelia's Christmas gifts (thanks Mike, Sima, Zara, and Kaan). While she had to put up with her Dad's driving (flipping it over twice and on its side once) she seemed to have fun. As you can see from the picture of her when I tipped it on the side, she couldn't really move much with all the layers of clothes.

Freedman Christmas

Grandma, Auntie Suzie, Uncle Jason and cousin Tom came to celebrate Christmas a little early with us. Amelia and Tom got on well and Amelia even managed to give him a hug or two. We had a fake Christmas cake (chocolate cake decorated like a Christmas cake).

Visiting Father Christmas

We went to see Father Christmas with our playgroup friends. Amelia was not at all interested, this was the closest she got by far.