Sesame Street Live

Well, Mya went to her first concert.  We went over to the cities to see Sesame Street Live...try to curb your enthusiasm!  

We left early in the day and Mya stayed entertained by watching Winnie the Pooh on Lisa's tablet on the ride over.  Thank goodness for technology!

Before the show started, we were able to go into a play zone.  I'm glad we got there early because it got crowded fast!  Mya was coloring a picture when all of a sudden she saw this guy (Murray for all of you non-Sesame Street watchers).  She literally jumped off her chair to follow him!  It was hysterical!

We played around for a little bit and took advantage of the photo ops.

Some of the characters came out and did a little song and dance and Mya had a front row seat.  She saw Zoe, Ernie, and Bert up close.  She wasn't so sure about them coming up and reaching out for her, but she did just fine!

Then we headed into the arena.  I wish, wish, wish that I would have recorded Mya's face when she saw the cast of the show come on stage.  It was pure amazement!  Her jaw dropped and her eyes were huge!  It literally brought tears to my eyes!

The show was great!  It had a lot of singing and dancing and she was totally entertained.  I was very impressed at how well Mya sat through the show.  She was tired and so I thought for sure she would have a meltdown, but no meltdown was had.  She sang along, clapped her hands and had a really good time!

With Momma before the show

Watching the show with cousin Lisa

Our Week

Well, it's been a little like this...

...and a little like this.

During the week, Mya spiked temps during the night of around 103.  She's also had a nasty little cough to go along with it, not to mention a runny nose.  Needless to say, our nights have been fairly miserable.  Pneumonia had been going around daycare and I was worried about that.  We kept her home a couple days to see if it would help.  Her temp finally did subside, but the other things have lingered.  Greg brought her into the clinic yesterday just to check and see if everything was okay (I was worried about her ears).  Dr. Plewa said that it is something viral.  He said if we had brought her in when she had her high temps they would have given her antibiotics, but now it's something that just needs to run its course.  What fun.

Here's hoping for a good nights sleep for the three of us!  :)

Move Over, Picasso

Mya continues to love to color and draw.  I'm always amazed at how much time she'll actually spend sitting and coloring.  She may only stay on one page for a little bit of time, but she'll color in each page of that coloring book and that takes a while to do!

Santa brought Mya tub crayons for Christmas so we've been using them at bath time a lot.  She LOVES her tub crayons!  Well, who wouldn't love coloring at bath time?

 Mya also likes to use her Aqua Doodle.  She and Trajan were playing with it at church (and were playing quietly!), so we went out and got one for her.  We figured it would be good to use in the car for trips and such.

And finally, coloring books that have stickers in them are the most amazing thing to Mya. She enjoys putting them on her head, eyes, nose, etc.  I found one in her bed the other day too.

Visitors!

We kept very busy over winter break and were able to meet up with some friends!  We met up with Nicole, Adam and Jackson at the Children's Museum one morning.  It was a hoot watching the two kiddos interact.  For instance, Mya took the bull by the horns and was the driver in the convertible.  When she let Jackson take the wheel, she decided she had enough and bolted.  Typical Mya.

The two cooked up something good in the kitchen.

Then we headed down and played with the water table.

We were so glad to meet up with them, since they live over on the east coast!  We're looking forward to meeting up sometime this summer, too!

Our Winona daycare provider also came up for a visit!  We thought she was coming up to do some shopping and was just going to be in the area, but she made a special trip just to see Mya!  I was worried if Mya would remember her or not.  I'm not sure she remembered her, but she immediately went to hug her!  So sweet!  Tina brought along her daughter, Madisyn, and the two girls had fun playing in the play kitchen and chasing each other around.  It was so nice to catch up with Tina and we definitely miss her as being our daycare provider!

A Year in Review

I picked out a few of my favorite pictures from each month of 2011.  A bit of a review, if you will!  A lot of wonderful things happened to our family in 2011 and we look forward to the New Year!

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