Happy New Year!

And a big "Happy Birthday" to Gigi!

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Merry Christmas!

 

 

 

Tradition

Walker Family Christmas Eve tradition?

New pajamas (that are matching, of course)!

Ready and Waiting

Someone is ready for Santa to come . . .

 

Dancing Queen

 Today we decorated the Christmas tree and had some Christmas music playing in the background.  Alexis started dancing.  She's done her "bounce" dance many times before, but today she started spinning for the first time.  Enjoy:

Tooth #10

First molar, upper right.

Popcorn Popping

Alexis has always loved to sing songs.  Or at least to have us sing to her.  Singing has always helped to calm her down and it always gets the biggest smiles out of her too.  She particularly loves songs that have hand movements with them.  She gave me the biggest surprise last week when I started singing "Popcorn Popping" to her and she did the movements with me.  It was totally out of the blue.  I had to get it on video because 1. it is ridiculously cute and 2. how talented is my daughter? (she is only 13.5 months old!).

P.S.  Sorry about the lack of church blogs, but we have been majorly sick since we traveled to the States.  Especially Alexis, so we have been keeping her home a lot.  We are all on antibiotics now, so hopefully we'll be getting out more often.

Bubble Bum

 

Tooth #9

First molar, upper left.

Cousins

Alexis got to meet her cousin Zachary for the first time this week.  It was so fun to watch them get acquainted with each other.

Who are you?

 

Alexis (13 months) & Zachary (6 months)

 

Lessons in sharing . . .

 

Reading with Papi.

 

Cat

Since we have been in Portland, Alexis has fallen in love with Persephone, the cat.  She has also learned how to say "cat" and "dog."  Alexis has fun chasing Persephone around the house and Persephone likes to steal Alexis' toys.

 

Fashion Statements

If Alexis is in her room, you can be sure that she will go through drawers and then follow you around with random articles of clothing until you put them on her.  I can't wait to see what she will wear when she's old enough to pick out her own clothes.

Church #48

Party Girl

Our church Christmas party is tonight and Alexis is ready to go.

(Her ponytail lasted about 30 seconds before she got her hands on it.)

Tropical Snow

I was switching out the laundry the other day and I noticed that Alexis was being awfully quiet.  This is what I found:

This is about as close to snow as you can get in the tropics.