Tillieisms!

Tillie, the Official Quality Control Tester! She loved eating the peanut butter ball dough!

LaRue did a great job with rolling out her peanut butter balls. She also loved eating them too!

This is Adelaide and her cute little self and smile! She left no cupboard door unexplored!

The finished product! We made advent stockings.

A Christmas Advent Stocking. I printed and cut out all the ornaments and put them in a snack size Zip Lok baggie. I stored it inside the stocking, good please to keep it and not lose it! In the above picture I had laid out the ornaments for both sides of the stocking to see if they would all fit!

Tillieisms...

Lisa and her three beautiful daughters spent a week with us following Thanksgiving. Jordan was at home working, going to school and doing clinicals. Our week was full of laughter and of course a few tearful moments, and sibling rivalry, the norm. Tillie just turned '3' in November. I had forgotten what a 3-year old is like. I never laughed so hard in my life. It was so funny and enlightening! :o) Here are a few Tillieisms. Tillie talks with a lot of 'enthusiasm, diction and drama!' :o)

'Grandma! Your toys are wonderful!'

'This is awesome!'

Mom told her to pick up a Hello Kitty Bingo game...there were a lot of discs...Tillie: 'This is going to be difficult!'

LaRue and Tillie are in the backseat of my van. Tillie does not want to hear her sister LaRue anymore...Tillie: 'La, la, la, la, la, la, la..then bursts into song...Rain, rain, go away, rain in LaRue's eyes! La, la, la, la, la, la, la. I'm not listening to you!'

Another ride in the van...Tillie to LaRue...'No, no, you don't understand, I want my privacy!'

Same ride in van...Tillie: (she's talking away to herself and ends with this...) 'but you don't understand me!'

Me (grandma) to Tillie...'Tillie, you have to pick up all the game pieces before you can plan another game, okay?' Tillie: 'No problem Grandma!'

Mom (Lisa) telling Tillie on several occasions to do such and such...Tillie: (With total body language, eyes rolling up and exasperation in her tone) 'Aaahhhh!' She then marched off and did whatever it was her mom told her to do.

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LaRue is in kindergarten and doing so well! She missed this past week being up here but had a journal she was to keep. Her mom would write one sentence of what laRue wanted had to say. LaRue drew a picture of what that sentence was about. She is reading more and more every day. She takes the time to sound out the letters, figure out the words and then say them. I was quite impressed! She was quite helpful in the kitchen too. It was fun watching her and Tillie help Lisa and I make my annual Christmas peanut butter balls. I dip them in chocolate after a few days. They were my volunteer work crew getting them all made! LaRue did her best to roll her little peanut butter balls. I gave both her and Tillie their own little pan. It was a bit much for Tillie to roll them out. I gave her a new job description, Official Quality Control Tester! Tillie: 'Oh Grandma, this taste sooo good! This is sooo yummy!' She ate handfuls!

Adelaide is such a cute cherub! She has the cutest little chubby body! She smiles a lot! She has her mom wrapped around her finger. I'm sorry to be a tough love grandma sometimes. Sometimes kids just need to cry it out and figure it out. The minute Lisa picks Adelaide up, it's a miracle! No tears, no crying just pure satisfaction that she has conquered all and is quite happy to be carried around by her mother! Adelaide can stand up and balance herself and can take two steps before 'bottoming out!' She is just so cute!

I made Christmas construction paper chains with LaRue and Tillie and attached the chain to a large paper bell. They enjoyed making the chains and also taking off a chain link each day. I also made Christmas Advent Stockings for them. I glued the edges together and then punched holes down the sides for them to lace up with yarn. I made 24 paper ornaments from my pccrafter clipart program and cut them out. I put an 'x' with a number for days 1-24. It took both sides of the stocking. Each day they glued on an ornament. LaRue and Tillie, with help, sewed the yarn around the edges. They did a great job! They liked gluing on their ornaments. I sent their crafts home with them to continue until Christmas.

It was fun having them all here and we'll see them soon. Lisa wants to come up for a few days when Bob and Julie and their kids arrive. It hasn't been dull at Grandpa and Grandma's home!

(I still haven't figured out how to separate my paragraphs, everything runs together. I put paragraphs in but they never show up! Grrr!)