Lindsey Loves Christmas Lights!

Friday night, December 16th, we took Lindsey to Searcy and decided to stop in Berryhill park to see all the Christmas lights. They have replicas of some of the downtown buildings just made of lights. You can walk through them... so Lindsey went exploring in the lights! There were also huge trees made of lights. The picture to the right is Lindsey standing in front of one... she's the little thing in purple in front of the green tree.

Lindsey's School Christmas Party

On Friday December 16th Lindsey had her Christmas party at her school. All the kids got to eat a bunch of junk! Lindsey ate chips and a cupcake.... what a combo! Then after they ate their treats, they got to play games. One of the games they played was Christmas bingo. Lindsey got bored after a while and didn't want to play anymore. After the games Mrs. Bound and Miss Santrice gave the kids a book for Christmas. She loved that since she loves books so much!

LIndsey Celebrates Her Birthday With Her Friends

Lindsey had her 5th birthday party with her friends on Sunday December 11th. It was at "Pump it Up," a place where they have a bunch of blow up things for kids to bounce around in and slide down. The supervisors at the party even let us adults bounce around on them when the kids were not playing! Lindsey had fun... but mom and dad were exhausted after the whole thing. Lindsey bounced around for 1 1/2 hours... we only did it for a few minutes and that made us tired. We don't know where she gets her energy!!

Lindsey Turns 5!

Lindsey turned 5 on Thursday December 8th. It's hard to believe it's been 5 years since she came into the world. For her birthday dinner, she chose to go to Chuck E. Cheese. She had a blast playing all the games. She ended up playing air hockey with a little boy and she beat him 7-0!! She was really good. He got upset because she beat him. There were some adults watching and they were laughing.... They couldn't believe how good she was. I told them it was a fluke! At the end of the evening, one of the guys who was watching her play air hockey gave her all his tickets he had won at the games. He said "This if for beating that boy!"

Lindsey Has A Busy Weekend!

The weekend of December 3rd and 4th was very busy. Saturday we went to the Little Rock Christmas Parade. (However it didn't feel like a Christmas parade... it was 80 degrees!) We met Chuck, Annette, and Robert Gatlin at the parade. When we got there, two of Lindsey's classmates from Rockefeller Elementary were there, Jacob and Olivia. Lindsey had fun playing with them before and during the parade. After the parade, the state capitol had a lighting ceremony for the season. They also had a fireworks display after the lighting ceremony. The fireworks didn't last very long. Lindsey said, "Is that all?"!

On Sunday we went to see "Beauty and the Beast" at the Arkansas Rep. She LOVED it. She said her favorite parts where when they sang "Be our Guest" and when the beast changed into the prince. She had a lot of questions with how they did that! One funny thing she said was she could tell Gaston did not have muscles as big as they wanted you to think he had. She said she knew he was wearing padding!! It always amazes me what she will notice that I don't think she will notice.

Lindsey, Mom, And Dad Decorate For Christmas

We spent Thanksgiving afternoon decorating our house for Christmas. We bought a new tree this year because the one we had was pretty sad!! Our new one is BIG. It didn't look that big in the store. Lindsey had a blast decorating it! This was the first year she really could actually help us. However, halfway through the decorating we noticed most of the ornaments were on the bottom branches because she is so short!! So, I had to move them up the tree when she was not looking.