"O Christmas Tree"

It was like this Christmas tree was a new toy. Ava threw ornaments around the room, wore beads around her neck, yanked on lights, and nearly pulled the tree down in one swoop. It was fun to decorate and she LOVES to just stand and look at the tree and the few ornaments we did put out. Christmas seems to be taking on a whole new look now that Ava is older. She gets the whole present thing, hates Santa Clause (he is scary looking), but loves for us to read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" (which oddly is all about Santa). I am anxious for the great memories on her second Christmas and even more excited to see her face when she gets our present! (I guess you will all have to wait on that one too)

Bring on more snow, eggnog, Christmas parties, wrapping paper pieces all over the floor, and lots of awesome presents to give.

I would like to say our biggest gift this year will be the adoption of our new neice Yamrot! She will be coming from Ethiopia in a few short months. Congratulations to my sister and her family on passing the adoption court date and FINALLY getting their beautiful daughter! We can't wait to meet her!!!!! You can see her beautiful face on my sister's blog.

Is it really December?

I guess November is a blur. Looking back I barely remember what happened. Thank goodness for pictures and video's. The stay at home mom "brain syndrome" is not a lie!

I sit here today awaiting the big snow storm and fretting how I need to run to the store to stock up, but Ava is still sleeping (she had a big day at the Dr.'s) and you know how I HATE the cold. BUT, for Ava's sake I will go and make sure we have what we need in case the power goes out...because for some reason the power goes out almost every December anymore.

Time to weed through the Christmas decorations. A pile for next springs yard sale, a pile for keeping, and a pile for things I would love to pass down to Ava (this means I can't put them out this year, there is potential she will grab and break).

In my mind this picture sums up my fast growing little girl (some of you have seen it, other's have not, hilarious to me none the less. It's a day in the life of potty training, which of course means she has no pants on)...