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Verity helped Mommy make some monkey bread - a favorite treat of Mommy's.

Mommy cut the dough, and then Verity added it to the bag and shook it to cover it in the cinnamon and sugar.
 

Verity enjoyed watching it bake.


Dada even caught Mommy enjoying some of it later.

We gave Shawn's old play kitchen to Verity for Christmas since he didn't play with it anymore.
After putting on a pair of shorts over her pants she decided to explore the ins and outs of it.


After Christmas we decided it was time to start getting out the infant stuff and Verity found a comfy seat in the baby's car seat.


Before Dada went back to work we decided to spend a little family time together.  We took Verity duckpin bowling (little pins and little balls).
 

She really enjoyed herself and part of the way through her first game, the people bowling next to us were leaving and gave us this guide they were using that helps little kids get the ball going fast enough and straight down the lane.  It helped speed up Verity's game immensely and she had lots of fun using it.


This was her score card.  She made it halfway through the second game before she lost interest.  We were quite impressed.


Then we took Verity to the mall and let her check out the fishies at the Bass Pro Shop. 


Then as we were headed to get some lunch Verity wanted to check out some of the rides.  Thankfully she thought they were just as fun without the quarters.
 

Verity LOVES the wooden puzzles we got her for Christmas.  This one is her favorite.

We spend Christmas at several places every year so these pics may jump around alot.

First we started at Grammy and Grandpa's new house which they had been living in less than a week.  Verity enjoyed playing with the cat bed for Uncle Drew's kitties and the parts to her new Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. 
 

Then we spent the first part of Christmas morning at home where we opened the presents from Verity's friend Miriam who is living in Japan right now.  She really enjoyed the purse that Miriam sent her. 


Then we went to PopPop and Grandma Mary's house where she played the piano with cousin Shawn and had birthday cake for Jesus.
 

After there, we headed to Great Aunt Lynn's house.  Mommy doesn't have any pics from there cuz she was taking video throughout the day on the video camera and forgot to get still pictures there.  But it was great fun and we ate lots of yummy food and shared tons of wonderful presents.

We love it when Verity decides to make her own fun.  Usually it involves an active imagination.
This is the insert to her booster seat that she strapped to herself.  I guess wherever she goes she'd have a place to sit.


Apparently the basket wasn't a good enough place to keep her play fruit.  She decided her shirt was a better option.

Verity had a ton of fun with her jumper.  We eventually moved it into another room so that it didn't suck up the entire living room but she has jumped in it every day. 

Ethan even got a chance to come and share in the fun.


Before we moved the jumper into the other room, she would hang on it and watch Sesame Street.  Mommy thought this was really funny.

Even though it is so close to Christmas, Mommy needed some distraction for Verity so that she would stop jumping on the beds and the furniture.  So she bought her a Jump-o-lene.

Verity likes it so far.  She was jumping on it right out of the box before we could even unfold it.  Here is the process of getting it set up with an eager toddler.
 


Check out that static


Don't let this picture worry you.  She's already figured out how to get on the couch and flip over the side into it.  Yeah, not so great.


CHEEEEEEEESE! (That's actually what she said)

Verity was going to help Dada put up the tree but she found the box to be more interesting.

 

She really likes wearing his gloves too.


She did help put on a few ornaments.