SCT and UW

 The Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend, we had tickets to Seattle Children's Theatre's James and the Giant Peach. Once again, we were pleased with our Sunday morning at the theatre! We spent some time before and after the show walking around Seattle Center enjoying the Christmas decorations. 

These giant flowers outside the Science Center are pretty cool. They are motion sensor activated and when you walk near them they start singing. 

After the show, we met up with Rutvi, one of Chris's former students. She is a freshman at UW. We had lunch together at the Armory and then we drove her back to school. She showed us all around the campus and her dorm room too. It was a beautiful day to walk around the campus...gorgeous! PLU has some competition now...Leila thinks she might want to go to UW some day instead of PLU. I am sure it is because Rutvi told her there is a dinosaur class offered at UW. That sold her!

T-Birds Hockey

 We took in our first Thunderbirds hockey game of this season in the end of November. We had quite the group this time around - Wes, Erin and the kids, Erin's parents and Chris's parents. The game went into overtime and the T-Birds won!! We haven't witnessed a win in a while so that was exciting! 

Library Card of Her Own!

Leila has her own library card now! We go to the library a lot and I felt like she was ready to have her own card. She was excited!! She got to choose the picture on the front of the card (wasn't like that when I got mine!). She chose the card with flowers. 

School Skate Night

 Leila's school sponsored a Skate Night back in October and try as might we could not get her interested in giving it a try. Well, when it rolled around to the 2nd Skate Night and she had heard classmates talking about it, she was all for giving it a go. She was pretty hesitant at first, but after we got her a "walker" she LOVED it! 

Little Singer

 Leila is becoming quite the little singer and it warms my heart! Chris has another lady in the family that he must accompany on the piano now. One weekend I snapped these pictures of them belting out tunes from Shrek: The Musical. 

Reading Night

 In early November, Leila's school hosted a Reading Night. We had a great time! Each classroom offered a different literacy activity. Leila's favorites of the evening were the Book Walk (where she won a book!), creating a book mark (pictured below) and Sight Word Bingo. Oh, and how could I forget, Clifford was there too! Leila was SO EXCITED that he came as she had just finished telling us that he came to library that day at school. We are looking forward to the next school sponsored family night! 

Bradley Lake Photo Session

 In November, I was scouting out some new photography locations and decided to try Bradley Lake Park. I talked Leila into letting me snap a whole bunch of pictures of her. I couldn't be more pleased with the photos! The colors that late afternoon were beautiful and, of course, I have the prettiest girl around...so how could they not be cute?

I don't know how noticeable it is to others, but I can totally see Leila's blue teeth in these last two pictures. It is evidence that a blue raspberry sucker was used for bribery to get "just a few more pics"!