Making it ours!

So the Baker family has been busy painting and finally adding some of our own personality into our home! It only has taken us 15 months, with the exception of Loralai's room of course. 

So before I show you a picture of an update we have made, you have to see the tasty treats Loralai and I made this past weekend! 

 Dont they just look delicious? Well Loralai thought so...I went to Costco and Daddy was watching Loralai, and well she kept going into the kitchen and coming out with what Daddy thought was the same cupcake, well I got home and took some groceries into the kitchen, and there was a line of about 4 cupcakes with all the icing licked off the top! Sneaky little girl we have ;) lol. 

So I will take a few better pictures of the difference the new wall colour has made to our home, I am so happy to be rid of the awful green! I will also take a better picture of the new chocolate brown chalk board wall, but for now here is our little artist expressing her creativity on the new wall!

In addition to the new paint, we added some new cupboard hardware, new kitchen drapes and rods, new bedding for our room, and a few little decor items. It makes me happy to come home now, it is finally starting to look like ours! :)

Fun Facts

Loralai Fun Facts:

• Loralai walks around saying "green means go" lol
• She LOVES creating with glue and foam shapes; play-doh and drawing pictures are close 2nds.
• When you tell her to smile, she is too cool to actually smile and just repeats the word!
• Her favourite colour (for now lol) is purple
• When you ask her who her best friend is she says Ian (she has grown up with Ian since they were both little babies)
• she can count to 12
• she can sing the alphabet along with you
  
• her favourite bedtime routine is reading a book and then singing two songs
• Loralai's two favourite non Dora movies are Care Bears and Tinker Bell
• I just asked her where she was (she was hiding under a blanket) she came out and said clear as day "what are you taking about?"! When you ask her to do something and she is not ready yet, she says "wait a minute". I asked her the other day when she was in her room what she was doing, she yells down "Mom I am in my room" with attitude! lol...she is going to give me a run for my money when she is a teenager I see it already! haha she cracks me up!
  

Welcome 2011!

We rang in the new year glow in the dark bowling...well ok it was 8pm, but we got out those noise makers, hats, and had a count down! It was Loralai's first time bowling and she loved it! Of course she did not get that couldn't constantly throw the ball and that she had to wait her turn, and also that she could not just throw it down any lane she wanted (sorry fellow new years bowlers), but it was still fun!

After bowling we went and ate Chinese food at my cousin Carrie's house, then we came home, Todd put Loralai to bed and fell asleep, then I went to bed and was asleep by 11pm...lol :(

So 2011 is deemed the year of change...but there will be a post dedicated to that coming up soon!

Christmas 2010

So this post is a little over due but better late then never right! lol

Our Christmas was so much fun this year now that Loralai understood more about the whole dynamtic of Christmas...well the part of Christmas that was about Santa and presents anyway! The entire day she walked around saying "where's my presents?" lol honestly she just loved opening them, I could have just wrapped up all of her old gifts and she probably would have had a great time as well! I do have to say that Santa spoiled her and brought her just what she needed, all the accessories for her babies!

But I will start with our Christmas Eve pictures. Like we have done since Loralai was born, we celebrated Christmas Eve at my parents house with family. We had appetizers, cake for my cousin Colin's birthday, spent time together, and opened a few presents from some of the family that we would not be spending Christmas day with.Then there was Christmas morning! Loralai woke up at her normal time of 6:30am, and we waited up stairs until Grandma, Papa, Auntie Bonnie, and Great Grandma and Papa come over. When she came down she just didn't know what to think, everyone was there, and there were toys and presents! I think she was in heaven! lol


Oh and of course we can not forget Grandma and Popa in Florida that were able to be there with us Christmas morning via Skype!

Next year is only going to be even better! Although this is an age I find that all the toys are so big, so my poor townhouse living room has been taken over! Our next house will have to have a playroom!

Quick New Years Resolution!

To blog more!!

I am sorry life has been crazy busy lately, I will post several posts later today to update everyone on what we have been up to!