Daley Family Christmas Party!

Well I finally found the camera disk that had all the Christmas party family pictures at my Mom's house this past holiday. It was a great tradition having lots of family there that the girls were able to visit and even open a few gifts! The pictures are not great as I was using my Mother's camera from around 1990 but we did the best we could and all had a great time! I look forward to continuing the tradition many years in the future~

Auntie and Maddie

3 generations!

family pic minus Olivia

Maddie Loves Liv's Ipad!

Aunt Pam reading to Maddie

Mom and Grammy

Grampy snacking away!

Auntie Em and Maddie getting in some cuddle time

Family picture...haven't had one of these in a while and although it may not be the best picture ( where the heck is Olivia?!) We feel truly blessed to have 4 generations of women celebrate the holiday season.

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Bowling with the Beane's!

After a bowling party Liv went to we got the bowling bug and wanted to bring both girls bowling. We went on a Sunday so it was pretty quiet which was great because Maddie was walking all over the place! They have a little kid ramp that the girls used for bowling and Steve and I competed against each other (who us competitive?!!)  It was also game day so we had a great time in all our Pat's gear :)

The girls cheering on Dad

Mad picked up the bowling ball on her own, shes the strongest kid ever!!

Liv making sure Maddie does it just right....

Olivia grabbing Maddie from chasing the ball down the ally...

Playing with the ball machine was way more fun than actually  bowling

Steve very concentrated on lining up the kids ramp

Liv mid push

Olivia seeing if her ball....slowly.....knocked down any pins

and she counted her pins she knocked down!

Maddie picking up another bowling ball......

Maddie's first slushy!!

Steve trying to explain the game of bowling to a 1 and 3 year old

cheese

touchdown!!

of course we had to play in the arcade after

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Adventures with the Eye Doctor!

The girls ready for the eye doctor!

                                             With Both Steve and my family's eye history the girls have both had to get regular exams each year. Olivia LOVES going and always asks the optometrist a thousand questions!  When they first bring us the the medical assistant does a basic eye exam on both girls. Olivia went first to help demonstrate to Maddie how to be a good girl.  While waiting for the actual doctor to come in Olivia decided to play doctor to Maddie, which was pretty hysterical. At one point Liv had Maddie in a choke hold around her neck trying to look at her eyes...needless to say Liv got punched from her younger (tougher) sister. It actually worked because once it was Mad's turn she was pretty good! I love our eye doctor, he reminds me of a grandfather, and loves interacting with the girls! Olivia's eyes are in great shape, however it is inevitable that Maddie will need....  glasses :( Apparently eye genetics are pretty strongly related to the mother's side of the family, and everyone in my immediate family wears glasses except me.  We head back in a few months to see if any improvement and then he will decide from there.

Liv pretending to be the doctor

Maddie not sure about this whole thing...

Maddie was miserable at this point after being tortured by her sister

trying to wipe her eyes....

Liv cheesing it up

Liv trying to copy what the eye doctor did, however she ended up stabbing Maddie in the eye

The girls playing nicely....

and then Maddie climbed the counter...Liv broke the eye retina display

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since its broken why not keep playing????

Liv checking out Maddie

seconds before Maddie punched Olivia......seriously

Dress-up playdate

Last week we had one of one of our friends that we first met when we moved to Tennessee :) Byrnn is a year older than Olivia and the girls had lots of fun dressing up! They put on princess dresses, high-heeled shoes and even some make-up! The girls put on some music and had a little dance party :) Maddie also wanted to dress up and look at herself in the mirror!

The girls dancing in her room

Practicing those dance moves

The girls checking out the dance catalog

Maddie checking herself out in the mirror

little bit close of a look

finished off a great playdate with a yummy lunch!

Ice Skating!

This winter we decided to try out ice skating again. We enlisted the help of her friend Lena, who has taken lessons already so we thought it would help Liv learning to skate. This time she did much better! Since Steve and I both can skate we took turns with the girls on the ice, and Maddie hung out in the stroller watching the girls from the side.  We started off practicing learning how to fall and get up, and then taking steps and learning how to balance. About half way through we were able to use an "helper" that lets Olivia push it while learning to keep her balance.  It was a successful day skating and we will be putting Liv in lessons this year!

The girls ready to head out!

Daddy giving Liv a Prep talk before going out!

Olivia was very scared, and kept wanting Lena to hold her up!

Bend those knees and put the arms out!

Daddy and Lena trying to coax Olivia

break time!

Olivia with her helper!

Maddie was asleep before we got out of the parking lot :)