Calendar candle

I told Natalie about the Danish tradition of a calendar-candle. The candle has numbers on it, and each day you get to let it burn down to the next number. 

Natalie made our own calendar-candle out of a plain white candle and some sharpies:

Very prettyl

I don't think that Natalie even know about superstition, but for whatever reason she skipped the number 13 - but I don't think anyone noticed... We really enjoyed this tradition  - we had the candle lit during dinner every evening in December.

Thanksgiving baking

We had a great Thanksgiving Day. We had lots of time to hang out and do fun things together. One of Natalie's favorite things to do is baking - and decorating the baked goods. Of course, we had to make a Thanksgiving-theemed cake:

Gobble, gobble...

Since we had more cake batter left over, we also made a bunch of cupcakes, and went to town  decorating them:

So pretty.

More turkeys, and some other crazy ideas!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Legos

When Karsten was a kid, he had a lot of legos. Lately, his Mom has been sending them to us a little at a time. Natalie has been having a blast putting them all together:

Legos, legos everywhere...

She even wanted to make a little video for her Grandma about them:

Crazy hair day

Natalie had a crazy hair day at school. She did her hair all by herself:

The look from the front...

And from the back.

She even put the hair color in all by herself!

Christmas parade selfie

Natalie and I went to the annual Christmas parade. This year it was really, really cold - in fact it was so cold that Natalie asked to leave about halfway thru. But we did have time for a quick self-portrait:

Gotta love that gap-toothed smile!

Natalie the reader

Natalie is getting really good at reading. She even asked me to take a few pictures of her reading a book all by herself:

Reading about princesses...

Smile for the camera...

...Aaand, back to the book.

Such a cute bookwork!

TV Time

The other day, Natalie was watching TV while I was working on something in the kitchen. When I walked by, I noticed how she was "sitting":

Very comfortable!