timid towards her new horse
still not sure if she likes it
the perfect gift for our head injury baby
cuddling with a new soft sleeper
reading her new book (out loud)
LARD COOKIES-she found the bag, opened it up, and took a bite. She's a convert! My family loves these cookies and now she has partaken. She's only had sugar a couple of times before this, but I figured "it's Christmas" so she enjoyed and savored these cookies.
These were taken a couple of weeks ago, but I have been debating since then whether or not to post them. I didn't want anyone to call CPA or ASPCA or whatever it's called. She has a BLAST and would have done this for several more hours if we had let her, but we didn't want to watch her for several more hours. She loves to climb, swings, slide, ride, spin, fly.....
It's always nice to have a picture taken in nice clothes and usually Sunday is the only day that's going to happen. The Sunday before Christmas is one of my favorite Sunday's of the year. It brings the whole season together for me. Today I asked my Sunday School class "Who named the Wise Men?" and one of the boys quickly answered "their mother's".
She decided to slide out the bottom of her chair and was perfectly content to be in this position for a few minutes. She even reached her little hands up, grabbed some Cherrios, and 
Obviously, I think this is funny and sometimes wonder if anyone else enjoys doing this to their kids as much as I do. If the day ever comes that I don't laugh while messing with her hair, I'll need a serious attitude adjustment. I love the before and after. She reminds me of a Gremlin. So cute and angelic in the first picture and then crazy in the next picture.
hitting her head, fa la la la laaaa, la la la laaaa.
This table is one of the best toys my parents have. The kids love it. She discovered it about a week ago and likes to go down it on her back, on her bottom, on her side...as long as her socks are off she can go up and down as much as she wants.
She has really good taste in toys. She's a little picky, but I think we are going to buy her one of her own.
'Tis the Season for SOUP! I love soup in the winter. Frequently we make a batch of soup and then eat it for a week. Bear Creek mixes are some of our favorites. Just make it like the bag tells you to then add anything else you can find. All we need now is someone to make us dilli rolls.
Her dress is a little over the top, but too cute to pass up. There is a hat that goes with it, but she would NEVER keep it on so why even try. Our babe was 13 months yesterday. She's decided she wants to walk 90% of the time now. There wasn't much interest before and that was great by us. We never had to tie her shoes together to keep her from walking too soon! She's also finally wearing size 2 diapers. Well, not really, I just haven't been to the store to buy more 1's, but we'll just pretend she's bigger than a 3 months old.
Bed head always makes me laugh. No matter what kind of mood I am in. Seeing her minimal hair fuzzy and sticking up all over the place is always funny to me. As always, the picture doesn't do it justice and I may not always think it's so funny, but for now, it's one of my favorite things.
Here's a picture of the stockings I made when we were first married. Actually the one she's in was a dud. I didn't realize it was backwards until it was too late.
I think she looks more like a drunken mermaid, but she's also a pretty cute little stocking stuffer. I'm on the hunt for new stockings this year. I made some when we were newlyweds. They were pretty snazzy (to go along with my musical theater background) but now I would like something a little more....relaxing and classy. I thought about making them, but that thought vanished quickly. I was hoping Martha would have some stockings this year. Most years her KMART collection is FABULOUS (seriously), this year a lot of it STINKS. She has let me down. I thought I could count on Martha to always be classy. There are still some nice things, but overall I give it a 6.
Since Christmas is disappearing (a whole other subject) I want to make sure we keep it alive and strong in my family. Below are some of our traditions, some traditions that I would like to start, and some traditions I thought were just neat. 
A couple of weeks ago, when she had a really bad cough, I thought sitting in the hot tube might make her feel better. I was a little concerned it would be too hot for her. Too hot for her? It was too hot for ME! She would have stayed in the entire day, but I was melting. After hot tubing, granddad pulled her around the gym on the dolly. What a life!
sometimes little dresses are just too hard to pass up...
Dad and Granddad put her in a box to keep her entertained.
She met a new friend to play with.
She had a BOOK BIRTHDAY PARTY where
I made her an apple-banana muffin cake with applesauce/cereal frosting (it even sounds gross to me now.) She was mesmerized by the candles and loved the singing. She was disgusted by the frosting as soon as she touched it and instantly started to dry heave. Another touch triggered her gag reflexes again. After several dry heaves, she finally threw up.
After she was cleaned up, she enjoyed some of her new presents and ate an apple-banana muffin (without the frosting).
