Sweet Joanna, Baking, and The Children's Museum

Shopping!

We finally got around to getting a cart cover (thanks, Gran!), and it really makes our shopping trips very cushy for Joanna. She likes it.

Baking!

This year for Matt's co-workers and Joanna's teachers, I decided to bake them something for Christmas (that's right, I said bake)... from scratch. Here's what I came up with. Of course there's a chocolate theme, although the cookies actually have raisins in them!

Have a closer look:

Yummmmm.

Kitchen Fun!

We're discovering more finger foods lately. Joanna likes to feed herself and make a mess. A new favorite is shredded cheese -- yum!

I finally got around to clearing out a cabinet for Joanna to play in in the kitchen. She LOVES it! We've got empty plastic containers and stuff to play with in there -- very fun.

Play Group at the Children's Museum
Today for a change, we went to the children's museum with the little ones. Joanna's friends Abby, Anna, and Caleb were there with their mommies.

The kiddos before all the fun.

They have this fantastic room for little ones at the museum full of stairs, switches, balls, soft toys, music, and all kinds of other things. Joanna enjoyed it very much!

This picture is blurry, but I think it looks cool. She's pulling up on a little wall.

Sliding! Oh boy!

We played for a little while then had lunch, and got ready to go home.

The kiddos after all the fun.

Looking a little more dazed, now.

We took a picture of a choo-choo train for Daddy on our way out. We'll have to bring you back with us, Daddy!

The kiddos were all getting pretty tired, but we decided to walk on over to Herman Park for a few minutes -- it was such a beautiful day! Of course I had to take a picture of Joanna Rose by some roses.