They had activities inside the church where they could color and make a star ornament. Delphia loved the whole thing except when we tried to get her to ride the donkey. She really enjoyed the wagon ride through the snow pulled by the horses and doing the ornament craft. 
She enjoyed the muffins, hers was "cloclate" and a little bit of hot chocolate. She didn't want to leave and talked Grandma into letting her pet the horses one more time before we got in the car. 
I really liked this birdhouse with all the birds hanging above it!
This one I took just for Shanes brother, Justin.
And finally a Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs house! (One of my favorite childrens books!)
We got on the train and a couple stops later two policemen got on to check tickets. After they were done checking tickets the gave Phia a Junior Transit Authority badge that we let her stick on her coat. 
We took her up to see the Christus which she enjoyed. We asked her if she knew what the temple was and she told us it was a castle, so we told her it was the temple. Usually she sees a temple and knows what it is but maybe seeing it in person it looked like a castle to her.
On the way home trax was packed so Delphia and I sat and Shane stood with the stroller. A guy sat down across from us and he had a Burker King bag. Lately Phia has been real big on haburgers, fries and ketchup. I was hoping he would eat on the train because I knew Phia would want some. He pulled out a few fries and she quietly said she wanted a bite. A couple stop later he pulled out his hamburger and she says, "I have a bite?" I told her no and he just smiled and said, "I don't think so sweetie!" She just watched him as he put ketchup packets on his burger and said, "He put ketchup on burger?" I was prepared for her to have a fit but when I told her it was his dinner and reminded her that she had eaten pizza she was fine with it.
It was fun to take her and see her amazement with everything tat isn't a big deal to us. We look forward to going together next year!
That night we headed to Pocatello and stayed with Lisa and Doug and their girls. Phia hadn't met any of them. She was very excited to see Grandma GG again. She loved Brindy, Doug's dog. She kept getting kisses from her. The next morning she sat on her bed and said, "I love Brindi. Brindi is cute!" She was very gentle with her and didn't tease her too much.
On Friday night we went to a Mexican place for dinner with everyone. I ordered Delphia tacos thinking it would be my version of a tcao. It came out and was two little corn tortillas and some kind of beef. No cheese, lettuce, sour cream.....I was afraid she wouldn't eat them but she ate every bite!
It was nice to see everyone and was a fun quick trip except for the drive home. I will spare you all the lovely details!
I think she painted 3 or 4 seets. She occasionally wanted a different brush or new water in her bowl but for the most part she just wanted to paint. She likes dipping her brush into 6 or 7 different colors and then painting on her paper. It usually comes out some sort of muddy brown or ugly green.
She has also been having a lot of fun with the file folder games that made when we were first married. She can do them no problem so I need to make some harder ones since she is so into learning. She lies matching the socks and snakes, mathcing shapes to the circus and halloween one and matching colors to the candles and pies.
Ten, her favorite part was the glue. She helped squeeze the glue on the turkey she had colored while I was cutting the feathers out.
Finally you have a finished turkey to hang on the fridge!
Monday was a terrible night! Delphia woke up at 2:30 Tuesday morning just crying and crying! Shane went and layed with her but she didn't fall asleep and when he left she kept crying. I went and layed with her for an hour and finally got sick of being kicked in the head so I left at 4:30 and went back to my bed. She cried on and off until 5:45 when I went to get her to bring her in my bed. She just kept crying. I had asked if her ear hurt and she said no. In fact I asked her if other things hurt and everytime the answer was no. Finally about 7:30 we decided to take her to her pediatrician and make an appointment for later that morning. I asked if she wanted some Tylenol and she said she did. I gave her some hoping it would ease whatever was bothering her. She took it and went staright to sleep until Shane got home and the for another 30 minutes or so. We got ready and were getting ready to head out the door and she kept saying, "I ready to go doctor. My ears broken!" We told her that Dr. Erickson would fix it and headed on our way. When we got to the office Dr Erickson came in and she was fussing about everything. He finally tried bribing her with stickers: Cars, Spongebob, Carebears but she wasn't biting so I suggested Dora and he said he thought he had some. He went to look and found 2 different ones that he had to dig for. He told her she could have one if she let him look in one ear and have the other if he could look in the other ear. She let him look in both ears, albeit unwillingly but she still got stickers and Dr. Erickson confirmed that she had a double ear infection. She is feeling better now but that night was sure miserable! As we were driving up to the doctor we were listening to 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed via Delphias request and after is was over She said, "I go to doctor just like the monkeys!" It suprised me that she related that to the song!
On Wednesday we made a pie, rolls, pizza sauce and dough and bread so we both donned our aprons (Phia's complete with gummy bears) and went to town ntil our power went off while I was mixing rolls. Luckily my bread was done, we were just baking rolls at 11:15 that night!
Phia loves to play the piano....we have also found recently though that she loves to sit on the piano. She smiles and tells us it's okay and we tell her it's not and make her get down but before we know it she is back up and sitting on the keys!
She ran into the house faster than I have ever seen and was just shrieking and then she fell and was trying to get to a safe place. When wegot to her she was just shaking. Todd took the mask off and she waved at him and said, "Hi" really quiet like, "I am nice, don't scare me." She finally kind of got used to it but not to the comfortable point that Chloe was.
We went trick-or-treating up and down my parents street and then went back to their house to see where Todd, Meg and Chloe went. When we walked into the driveway Phia said, "No, no, no! More houses!" We ended up taking her on the big wagon but it only lasted a little bit until she decided that she didn't want to ride, but pull it with Daddy instead. She would go to a house and say trick or treat and thanks and then we would walk back to the sidewalk and she would say, "New house!" We kept asking if she was cold and she would tell us she was fine. When she got back in Grandmas driveway she said, "I freezing!" and wanted her coat on since we were done. On the way back to my mom's she was sorting through her candy on the wagon and naming things that she knew and asking what other things were. We had a fun halloween!
This picture cracks me up! I think shne looks like the Potatohead that she created!
