In the Land of Eddings...: January 2011

Daphne sledding by herself...she's a big girl

Snow bug

Daphne playing outside during the Christmas snow. Yes, she is outside with no shoes or clothes. She wouldn't take off her bee costume, nor would she wear regular clothes and shoes.

We have been out of school for several days now, and uncle Brian, Lauren, and Shannon have been at the house taking advantage of good snow in the yard. We did lots of sledding, until Daphne was too cold to stand it any longer.

Lauren and Daphne going down the hill

Shannon and Daphne in the sled

Uncle Brian trying to sled

hmm, let's try going down the slide

snowball fight with Brian

Random fun at the home

Shannon and her new dog, Mojo, sleeping on the couch

Daphne, Shannon, Mojo, Mac, and Bart curled up on the couch watching Beauty and the Beast.

Bryson playing dress up on New Years with Daphne

The cool girls

Playing in the snow from Christmas

Daphne and I got to enjoy some time in the snow at Christmas time. We went to play outside with Bryson, Charity, Brandon, and Brandon's brother. The kids had a great time. We made hot chocolate and snow cream to warm up after the kids were soaked to the bone, but filled with fun.

Making snowballs

a giant snowball

going down the sled

sledding down the hill

wheeeeeeeeeee!

Daphne playing in her bug outfit out in the snow.

To beat the cold, we went to Bisque and Beads with Shannon and Anna to paint pottery. Daphne chose a new bowl for Bart. She worked really hard on it.

It's beautiful!

Anna and Daphne playing in the snow downtown.

Merry Christmas...

Santa came! Santa came!!

Deciding which presents to open first.

Memory!

Opening more presents with her Elmo shoes.

ooh, a firewoman outfit.

Mommy, Daphne, and Bart

ooh, a puppy costume

napping after opening presents before going to Mamaw and Pop Pop's house.

Helping uncle Brian open his presents

a conductor outfit to go with all of our Thomas stuff

ooh a foot piano

snow on Christmas day. how awesome!

whew, we were tired after opening all those presents and eating all that yummy food.

Unexpected Christmas fiasco...

We got a phone call on the 23rd about 8:30 at night from Uncle Brian. He simply said "Daphne's Christmas present is broken and I'm taking it to the hospital." Clinton and I were very confused because he had told us they got Daphne a fake dog, and we were laughing since we figured Beckett (Brian's dog) got the dog out of the box. Ohhhh no. Brian was going to surprise her with a REAL puppy. We drove to the animal hospital and saw that the poor puppy had his eyeball hanging out of its socket! So, since we are all bleeding hearts, of course we couldn't say no way. We got him into surgery and they removed his eyeball. Now, Daphne has a new puppy that is a cute little ankle biter named "One-eyed Bart." (named after Daphne's favorite movie Toy Story).

Poor Bart after surgery. He wasn't happy for the first 10 days of being in our house. He is much happier now that he has no stitches and no cone on his head!

Daphne playing with the puppy.

Daphne and Uncle Brian making sure he is getting food and water.

Eat Bart, Eat.

Getting ready for Christmas...

Lots have happened since our last post. We decorated for Christmas the usual Eddings way...all decked out. We added a few more lights to the house, which was very exciting. We tried to take Daphne to see Santa for the first time...that went very badly. She refused to get near the poor guy. At least she was very excited to talk about him coming to the house, along with looking at all the tons of lights around the neighborhood. This was such a fun Christmas for all of us. Daphne made it worth all our efforts of decorating.