Monday, November 24, 2008

Week in Pictures

Those of you guys who know us well know how much we love putting Christmas up even before we've cooked the turkey.  I just think 4 weeks is not enough time to enjoy all of the lights, music, etc.  I did all of the inside decorations last week while Andy was out of town, and he put on his Lighting Engineer T-shirt and hung the lights outside the house yesterday.  Usually I don't let him turn them on until after Thanksgiving, but we are officially the first house on the block all lit up.

Then we decided to be a little over zealous and took Addison to the mall last night to see Santa.  After 40 pictures in front of the tree with Andy jumping around like a loon to get her to smile, we got one....

and the rest were something like this.......   
So then with our child in such an outstanding mood, we headed to the mall.Can you sense the excitement she is feeling?  So excited to see Santa!!!!
And so she didn't smile, but for the great deal of $18 for 1 5X7, I have proof that she wasn't freaked out by Santa.  

Addison and I are so happy to have Andy back in town.  He was gone all of last week to Calgary for work, and Addison wore me out.  Leave it to the week that he's gone for her to take off in crawling, pull up on everything, and show me how much we still had left to babyproof.  So with Andy back in town, I could have him do little things around the house and with her to help out.  Like installing cabinet locks, giving her a bath.....and feeding her a bottle......

Ummm...no
It's been so nice today just hanging around the house and getting to play.
These pants are 6-12 month pants.  My child has freakishly long legs.
She will pull herself up on something and then just break out in the biggest grin....so proud of her accomplishment.  Then she loses her balance, falls, and clunks her poor head on something. It can't all be fun.

Since we had the tree up this morning and she kept on crawling over to it to grab the lights, I pulled her under the tree with me and we laid down and looked up the lights under the tree.  That was always my favorite thing to do as a kid with the Christmas tree.  She loved it....just kept looking at me and smiling.  It was a cute little moment.


I know the picture above didn't really come out well because of the flash, but I love it because she was so happy playing in her crib.  She saw me peeking through at her and came right over trying grab at the camera.  


7 comments:

Lacey said...

Love the Fat Tire bottle. :0) Too funny...too cute. You definitely got a head start on Santa...wow!! And I thought we were always early. :0)

Lindsay Wagner said...

I can't believe how big she is getting!!! And if it makes you feel any better, we've had our Christmas tree up, lit and continuously on for over a week now. I'm actually taking a quick break from decorating the inside of the house to check blogs! I LOVE Christmas!

Callie said...

ok, that picture of her and Santa was definitely worth the money...priceless!! I need to see that sweet girl soon!

the deKorne family said...

precious pictures!! she is incredibly cute :)--that bottom picture with the blanket is the same blanket ava is addicted to. "kiki". we do nothing without it. wish i could see the decorations!

Katie said...

Love the Santa picture. That turned out so well. Anna has that same Christmas dress (gymboree?) and the other girls are coordinating. Not completely matching, but all have plaid of some kind. And I like your new Christmas blog design. I think it's awesome that your house is decorated.

Ashley McWhorter said...

Love the Santa pictures. Those are always priceless. :) We had our lights put up outside last week. I think we are the only ones on our street, too. Conn said it looks like a landing strip for airplanes.:)

Katie said...

A Christmas blog AND Christmas music! Double awesomeness.