Merry Christmas!

We had a great Christmas with just the right amount of family time, fun, presents (well some might argue we had MORE than just the right amount of presents) and holiday cheer. Abby is crazy about all of her new toys and so am I. I think one of the many, many fun things about being Abby's mom is getting to give her things for Christmas that I always wanted and then getting to watch her play with them and getting to play too. I loved my presents too, but maybe not as much as watching Abby's excitement yesterday and all day today and hopefully for weeks to come!

A New Tradition...

I don't know who told me about this Elf on a Shelf book, but I think it's so cute so I had to get one for Abby even though she's a little young to really get it... nonetheless, we now have an elf in our house and Abby even managed to name him. I've never heard her say this word before, but when I asked her what we should name him, she said Beetle, clear as day. So there you go, meet Beetle! It's a much better name than the obvious names I would have picked out. She's so creative. : )

Abby meets and instantly loves Beetle.


They chat about how cool Santa is...


and then she finds out... wait!? He's here to spy on me?!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

I wrapped all my presents today while watching Real Housewives of BH. So productive and so drama filled. Abby wants to open all the presents NOW. I'm sure my pocketbook will disagree, but I think we need some more family members because I want my tree to look filled with presents like it did when I was a kid... or is that just my childlike memory tricking me into thinking we had WAY more presents back then?

Santa & Abby

I had high hopes for Santa this year. We've seen him twice already in passing and Abby hasn't been terrified of him and we have an advent calendar with chocolates and a picture of Santa and every day we joyfully open a door and talk about how nice it was that Santa brought us a piece of chocolate and I'm happy to say that although the picture of Abby and Santa does feature a crying Abby it wasn't as bad as last year and as soon as she was off Santa's lap she was calm and smiling, so those tears weren't REAL, full blown tears... I am hopeful that next year we might make it without a single tear. We'll see...

Good Morning

Abby recently started saying Good Morning. She says it mostly to strangers while we are out on walks. The strangers don't usually understand that she is talking to them or what she is saying, but it's so cute and I really love it. I hope one day she says good morning to you and you understand that that is what she is saying and say it back to her. I bet it would make her day.

Happy 1st Day of Hanukkah Abby

This year she kind of gets it and today was a really exciting day. We lit the menorah, she got a present, she also got to open a little door on the advent calendar and found some candy!! It was a really big day. She is so lucky to get all the excitement of both holidays. And she can say Happy Hanukkah and it sounds really cute. There's no way the average person or really anyone but me and Charlie can understand that it's Hanukkah that she is saying... in fact it sounds almost the same as the weird sound she makes for Auntie Kelsey, but whatever, it makes me smile and she is really cute when she says it. So proud of herself!



She really, really, REALLY wants to blow out the candles...