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Oh, Ikea…. December 28, 2012

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I love Ikea. Half of my furniture in my house is Ikea. And now most of Adele’s toys came from there as well. But I can’t ignore how funny their stuff is sometimes. Everything we buy has at least one thing wrong with it. For example, their picture frames are not made for America’s standards 4×6 or 8×10 photos. All of our pictures have to be cropped or matted to fit into them. But we love their stuff and continue to shop there. The price is right, anyways!

But please join me in laughing at how funny this is. We got Adele two toys from Ikea for Christmas, both of which we love. But really, Ikea?

EXHIBIT A: The Shape Sorter
Compared to all the Fisher Price and Playskool models out there, this is a deal at $4.99. The house is made from solid wood and made in Sweden. It’s the perfect size for Adele and she LOVES to put all the shapes inside and take them all out again.
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It will be great for teaching Adele shapes someday…
IMG_8452Look, Adele, it’s a square…a circle..a triangle…and a….Window?

Oh, Ikea.

EXHIBIT B: Titta Folk
So cute! Where else can you get a snorkeler, a santa and an Amish man finger puppet all in one set? I mean, it’s kinda awesome. titta

It’s a fun set to sing “Where is Thumbkin” too and Adele likes to chew on their heads.
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But seriously… why is the tag on the ghost so big? It’s twice the size of the puppet itself!
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Oh, Ikea….

 

Storytime December 27, 2012

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We took Adele to a story time group a couple of weeks ago. Most of the kids were 2-3 years old, but Adele impressed us by being quiet, paying attention and smiling. I think we might have a little book worm on our hands!
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Besides the books, the most interesting part of the whole day was the green shag rug. She was enjoying burying her hands into it, she loved it!
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Spikes! December 26, 2012

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Adele is finally growing hair! The post-bath spikes are the best!
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Christmas Tree Art December 25, 2012

Filed under: Christmas — Kelocity @ 2:28 pm

I was trying to take a picture of our Christmas Tree the other night and playing around with our camera. This is the picture I was aiming for:
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But before I got that, I tried to adjust the aperture and accidentally made the exposure too long and ended up with this:
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It looked so fun that I started doing more like this! I call it: Christmas Tree Art.
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Now i know how all those people get those cool Sparkler Wedding photos. I’ll have to remember this!

 

 

An Early Christmas Morning December 23, 2012

Filed under: Christmas — Kelocity @ 2:26 pm

Because we’re heading to the East Coast for the holidays, we celebrated Christmas Morning at our house early this year! We were SO excited to introduce Adele to presents, wrapping paper and stockings! Irving woke up at 5:30am and woke me up to ask me if it was time to open presents. “Not until Adele wakes up,” I said… and then added “And no, you can’t wake her up”.
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Once she did wake up, we bounded to the living room to start on the big event! Santa came! And Adele was pretty excited about it. She was a natural at opening her gifts. She knew exactly how to rip the paper off and she seemed genuinely excited about her gifts. It was so cute to watch!
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One of her favorites was a little horsey from our friend, Christina!! Adele loves it! Maybe because it’s just her size. She was in love. And apparently she shows her love by trying to rip the hair out. Be nice to the horsey, Adele!
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Here’s a video of a very excited Adele meeting Mr. Horsey!

We stretched it out for almost an hour taking turns opening our gifts!
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Irving and I didn’t tell each other what we got Adele, so that was fun to still have the element of surprise. I think we’ll do it like that in the future too, it was so much fun. We were just as excited to open Adele’s gifts as she was.
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We did our usual Christmas Card game for Christmas this year. We have a bag of cards, each one has an adjective on it (ie: Something Red, something round, something made in America, etc). The rules this year were:

  • Pick 6 cards
  • Use at least four of them
  • Cards can (and should) be for both the other spouse and Adele

Among some other gift, here’s a rundown of the gifts we got each other with the cards in mind!

GIFTS FOR IRVING:
-NO, IT’S NOT! – A travel tie holder (and instead of a tie inside, I put four Reeces bars).
-NEVER SEEN BEFORE – Membership to the Southern California Golf Association (And he knew ahead of time he was getting this because I needed his membership # to renew it).
-ACCESSORY – A Tie

GIFTS FOR ME:
-PERSONALIZED – A giftcard to Sweet to make two customized candy bars (YESSS!!!)
-ORNAMENT – A Necklace (ha!)

GIFTS FOR ADELE:
-SOMETHING STORED IN THE BOX IT COMES IN – A Shape Sorter from Ikea!
-NOT ENOUGH – Bubbles from Gymboree (and a Refil bottle to go with it!)
-PET – A replacement Puppy Lovey (in case one ever gets lost or dirty — she sleeps with it every night).
-SOMETHING GREEN – My First Golfbag (She LOVES this!)

Adele also got some disposable placemats and bibs, some other practical things and some other toys. So fun!
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People kept saying that the only thing she’d be interested in is the wrapping paper, so as a joke, I wrapped up a bunch of tissue paper. haha
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It was such a fun morning. Merry Christmas, darling!
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