I haven’t posted pictures in awhile and my darling husband had to remind me how. On top of that, he went and upgraded our ftp program and it wasn’t playing nice with me. Come to find out, yes, it was user error. You don’t connect on the newer version like you did with the older version. *sigh* Okay, now for the pictures!
First, we decided to go very very simple this year with our Christmas tree. We got a tree the week before Christmas and got lights on it then decided we actually liked it with just the lights… which was good because we couldn’t find all our ornaments anyway!
We did manage to come up with one truly cute ornaments, however:
They made these at her daycare!
Christmas Eve arrives and I have the awful fear that the dress a coworker gave me for her won’t fit. I hadn’t tried it on her! At first look, Brian and I both had the same reaction. “This is way to big for her!” Alas, it fit her beautifully. Our baby girl is really a big girl now. A little explanation on pictures – if it looks as if she’d been crying it’s because she was. She did NOT want her picture taken. We finally got a smile by me making funny faces. We got her to quit crying (some) with the threat of no church and going to bed. Here they are:
BTW, the pigtails were requested and it took me forever to do it. We dropped her off in the nursery at church and went down to the service. After church, we went to get her and the nursery workers were apologizing profusely! “She pulled the pigtails out and wouldn’t let us put her hair back up!” I actually apologized to them and told them that I should’ve warned them they’d come down and that it would be alright.
Christmas Eve service was interesting. We went to the 5 pm service at Cathedral Church of the Advent. Per instructions from other members, we got there about 4. The closest seat was near the back and 10 minutes later it was standing room only! It was a lovely service to say the least.
Christmas morning was fun. We thought we were going to have to wake Taylor up – it was 9 a.m. and she was still asleep and we were ready to open presents by golly! Stockings are first, of course.
One special present was a bicycle. We’d wrapped the helmet and gave it to her saying, “Taylor, Santa told us you might need this.” She opened it and we asked what it was (“a he’met”). “Why would Santa think you need one of those?” Her: “I dunno.” We suggested she look downstairs in the garage and here’s her reaction (and bike pictures):
“There’s a bicycle down there!”
Of course, we had to go immediately and try to ride it:
We’re working on her peddling technique.
After all the fun here, we packed up and went to Huntsville. We were slack with the camera, though. Here are the only pictures I have from our Huntsville trip:
Among her goodies were a Thomas the Train set with Thomas (and he puffs steam that’s cool to the touch!! Okay, so it’s really a mister, but it’s still neat!). Another favorite was a semi-truck that came with 12 matchbox-type cars, a walmart semi and has additional space for 12 more cars. She also got a doctor kit and some new books. I can’t remember what else all, but I know those were some of her favorites.
In anticipation of new toys, I went on a cleaning rampage the Friday before Christmas and New Year’s weekend. Taylor now has toys up in her room and a few downstairs. I also got storage containers for them. I was looking at toy boxes then realized the rubbermaid-style containers are great. One funny I found on the inside lid of one of them was a warning sticker.
Hm. Doggoneit… and I thought I could store Taylor in there! To me, that one’s right up there with instructions on how to close up a baby stroller (Step 1: Remove baby)
Merry Christmas all and Happy New Year
btw, Christmas cards ARE coming… there’s a reason I picked a style that said “Happy Holidays” 🙂