Teddy Bear Tea

My mom and I took Reagan to Teddy Bear Tea with a friend Danielle and her daughter Ava. I love that the Cedar Falls community sponsors events like these. It was fun to see all the little girls in their holiday dresses with big smiles on their faces and wonder in their eyes.

The event started off with dancers from a local dance studio. As the girls danced I couldn't help but think to myself that could be my girls someday. As I've said in previous posts, Reagan loves music and dancing so she watched with excitement. She clapped when everyone else did. They also had a magician, Reagan didn't really see the entertainment value out of this but liked seeing the doves that he did a couple of tricks with. Then for the main event, SANTA and Mrs. Claus arrived!! We have been talking about Santa and even bought some Christmas books in hopes of getting a good picture of the girls with Santa this year but after Saturday I think we have a couple of years a head of us before this happens. Reagan carried her teddy bear now named "Teddy" around with her all weekend and still drags him around the house with her. It was a fun morning and can't wait to take both Reagan and Avery next year! Thanks Danielle!

One of the dance groups performing


If you look closely you will see all the girls holding up their teddy bears to show Santa and Mrs. Claus


Santa making his way to the stage!


Reagan with Grandma and I


Reagan and Ava holding hands

Grandpa's Car

My dad bought a new toy this month and we were lucky enough for him to drive it up to Cedar Falls when he came for a visit one day a week or two ago. Reagan thought it was pretty neat, she can't wait to go for a ride next summer (neither can I)!!

Random Pictures

I haven't been very good about updating this month. I guess we haven't done a lot that is blog worthy...which was kind of nice to have a relaxing month before the holidays hit! I thought that I would post some random pictures of the girls that I took this month. They both are getting so big!

Sharing

We have been working with Reagan on sharing her toys with Avery. We don't want it to be a rude awakening to her when Avery starts moving around and wants to play with her things. The other night Reagan moved her toy over to Avery all on her own. We were so proud and excited! Obviously Avery can't play with them yet but she sure has her eye on them and her big sis!

Here are a couple pictures of them "playing" together.

Cousins

The girls and I went Cedar Rapids for the day and we got to play with the cousins! Here are a couple cute pictures from our day.

Trick-or-Treating

Reagan was a cow for Halloween this year. We found the costume at Sam's for $11 and she loved it! The first couple days we had it she carried it around everywhere with her just like her blankie. We were praying it wasn't going to become another blankie obsession! Avery was a bear, it was a hand me down from Reagan. It was a bit tight on her but it kept her warm.







Downtown Cedar Falls does trick-or-treating every year for the kids. All the shops have someone sitting outside their storefront and hand out candy. I couldn't believe the amount of kids and parents! This was a good test run for Reagan for Sunday night.

If you look closely, you can see that the street is lined with people.









Cedar Falls had trick-or-treating on Sunday night. We took Reagan to the neighbors houses and down the street to a couple houses that were decorated with lots of lights that we knew she would like. Honestly I think she had more fun passing out candy!!

Carving and Painting Pumpkins

We had big intentions to carve pumpkins this year but time just snuck away from us so we only got one done. I guess this was plenty considering Avery is too young to remember and Reagan's attention span is not long enough for the time it takes to carve a pumpkin! As you can see by the pictures below, Reagan was really excited at first but after touching the pumpkin goop she didn't really care to get too involved after that.









I bought a couple small pumpkins for Reagan and I to paint for a fun activity to do during the day sometime. She didn't get into it as much as I thought and hoped, maybe next year.