Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Much overdue update

Looks like the blog has taken a back seat, but I don't don't want to completely neglect it. The Sniders have been busy as usual - Thanksgiving came and went and we spent time preparing for Christmas. Claire absolutely loved having the Christmas tree in the house and Jenna did surprisingly well not grabbing the ornaments off the tree. Both girls were big fans of Jack, our Elf on the Shelf, and each morning Claire would run through the house looking for him. Whoever created that book and concept is really a genius. The girls came to work with me on Christmas Eve before we hit the road to Massachusetts spending Christmas Eve with the Calnen side of the family and a quiet Christmas day on Wishing Well Way before heading home Christmas night for another round of opening gifts. Claire was super excited for all the gift opening and loves her Barbie dolls and games, Jenna could have cared less what the gifts were she just wanted to rip the wrapping paper! Friday after Christmas we hit the road to California for a 10 day excursion that left us worn out and needing another vacation. We stayed with Andrea and enjoyed time walking pub crawling our way along the beaches, enjoying several great meals, whale watching, and celebrating an East Coast New Years on the West Coast. New Years Day we headed to the Rose Bowl parade and then walked through looking at the floats which were phenomenal. It is hard to explain or appreciate the detail of these floats until you see them up close. Definitely add a trip to the Rose Bowl parade to your bucket list. After the Rose Bowl we headed down to San Diego for a few days where we enjoyed SeaWorld and the San Diego Zoo. Besides some minor illnesses, everything went great!

On another note - our precious little Jenna has turned into a terror. We have been saying this for a while, but anyone who spends some time with her will agree. This girl is just all over the place into everythng and has quite the little temper. She screams at the top of her lungs when she doesn't get what she wants. One of her favorite activities has become undressing  herself. We put her to bed the other night and after 15 mintues of screaming I went in to check on her with plans to lay her back down. When I walked into the room I found everything had been thrown out of the crib except Jenna and the diaper that was in her hand. She somehow managed to undress herself and take her diaper off - luckily it was clean! But the worst part is as soon as she saw me she stopped crying and started laughing. I had no choice but to join in the giggles and of course call Dan and Claire to check out what was going on. This past weekend Claire and Jenna were playing and Claired yelled to me - Mom, Jenna is on your bed and she's taking off her diaper - and it has poop in it. Just what you don't want to hear when you are in the other room, but I did make it in before anything crazy went down.

Claire continues to be the sweetest most deceptive kid around. She is quite the bargainer and tends to win us over with sweetness. She loves to read books, play games, and draw pictures for Mom and Dad to take to work. She is inquisitive about everything and doesn't miss a beat.

And that my friends, is the Sniders in a nutshell right now

1 comment:

Becky S said...

Love the update! Crazy kids (just like ours!)