Buckaroo

One of the games we have up at the cabin is Bucakroo (the Toy Story 3 version, of course). Molly has been interested before, but this was the first trip up where we actually played the game. We even got through a few times without setting Bullseye off.





Action shot:


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Tahoe snow storm

We drove up last Tuesday and it was snowing when we arrived. The snow continued to fall pretty much all day Wednesday. We got up and headed into town with the intention of taking Molly to Tahoe Tot Spot, but when we arrived we discovered they were closed for a "Snow Day". Luckily we were able to entertain Molly at the pet store with all the fishies and lizards and frogs. She was so excited she kept wanting to reach into the tanks to pet them, but would pull her hand back just before I said something because she knew she wasn't supposed to.

The drive into town:




I love that her fingers are crossed!


Lots and lots of new snow:


Sadie, keeping watch:


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It's so rough...

... being a furry kid in the Hickson household.

Best. Day. Ever.

This morning Molly and I dropped the Subaru off at the dealership for some maintenance. It's not that far away so I decided to walk back home as N had an early trainer appointment at the gym. We cut through the mall to help break up the walk. Molly had some energy to burn and ended up running the entire mall. Both floors. Both wings. She would stop every now and then to shake her booty in front of a store pumping loud music, but for the most part she just ran. And ran. And ran some more.

As she started to wind down she began to act out parts of the movie Tangled. She has seen it several times in the movie theatre the most recent being this last Sunday when N took her. Twice. Yes, twice. At first she was bellowing, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel... let down your haaaiiiirrr." Then she started to run around in circles yelling, "Best. Day. Ever." (another scene from the movie) By the time I thought to get out my phone and record some of this the circles had turned into twirling. Then she just pooped out.

Ah, those wizards at Disney know what they are doing.

Here's the trailer for the movie in case you have no idea what I'm talking about:

Tough life

Post dinner and mellow... plops herself down in the middle of her toys... too lazy to even sit up.

Oh yeah, her favorite toy these last few days have been socks. Yes, socks.

Christmas morning

As soon as I heard Molly open her door on Christmas morning I nudged N awake. We met up with her just as she was going into the living room where the Christmas Tree was. As soon as she saw us she asked us to turn on HER lights. Once we did we waited for her to notice the presents under the tree.



N pointing out the cookie crumbs that Santa left behind along with the leftover carrot from Rudolph:


Stunned that her stocking had more than one thing inside:


Unwrapping the stable from Santa:


Molly had no interest in posing for pictures when there are new toys to play with:


N made Molly bug some Christmas Tree and Frosty the Snowman pancakes for breakfast:


That's it?!?


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Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we went over to Granny and Grandpa Marsh's house for dinner. Molly had a TOWER of gifts waiting for her. She definitely got the hang of the whole present thing this year... to the point that she was handing the empty boxes back to us so she could open them again.

Opening the Russian Nesting dolls Grandpa picked up for her:


Showing Granny:


Oooh, another present:


And Tinkerbell:


Molly got a little wound up with all the attention so Aunt Tracey calmed her down with the Tinkerbell movie. Dinner was ready before they had a chance to finish. Aunt Tracey liked it so much she made a point to watch the end before her trip was up.

Presents for mommy

Apparently my boots make for an excellent hiding place.

Her own #1 fan

Molly heard a video of herself and came scootin' over to see what it was about. She loves looking at all pictures on her blog, but really loves the videos. She laughs and laughs. Crazy girl.

Gingerbread Man

My mom got Molly a HUGE Gingerbread Man making kit from Trader Joe's.

Apparently a a gingerbread man decoration crew requires three adults for every kid:


Note the bite mark on the top of the head. Yep, she thought she could get away with it:


Molly is more of an Art Director... likes to direct rather than get her own hands dirty:


Sprinkles? I'll get my hands dirty for sprinkles!


"Yes Granny... very nice work... you may continue."




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