Melanie sings "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"

This Christmas with Melanie has been the best so far. She is really getting into all of the festivities going around. She is also learning the words to some of the carols. Her favorite is Rudolph. One day, as she was singing along with the radio, I took a video of her. She has the cutest voice (in my opinion). When she realized I was recording her she asked me to stop, but of course I couldn't do that. Here is Melanie in her singing debut.

Melanie in gymnastics

Melanie has been taking a ballet, tap, and tumbling class for the past few weeks. Last Saturday was her last class and the kids had a little recital for the parents. It was very cute to watch. I don't think Melanie really enjoyed herself, but she had fun overall. Here are two movies of the recitals.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We had a nice evening with friends and family here. We didn't get any pictures of that night, but we had a busy weekend and of course got pictures of other activities.

On Friday, we went shopping. I know some people think we're crazy to out the day after Thanksgiving and go shopping, but we love it. We were actually able to put a dent in our Christmas shopping.

On Saturday, we went to the Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo. The place was really done up beautifully with all the lights and decorations. Melanie had a great time meeting Santa and Mrs. Clause and mailing her letter to Santa. She even got to meet a penquin, walrus, and a gingerbread man.

On Sunday, we took Melanie's picture at church for our Christmas card. We haven't decided yet which one we are going to use. I guess we need to do that soon!!

Halloween, 2008

Hi all,

I can't believe it's been so long since I have posted something for all of you to read. Hopefully, I will be better at this next year.

Melanie had a wonderful time on Halloween. She went trick or treating as 'surprise' a princess. She was dressed as Sleeping Beauty. She went all over our neighborhood and then we drove to both grandparents houses. She really raked in the candy.