December Photos

Teaching Dahlia about Christmas has been a lot of fun.

We put a tree in the living room, hang socks by the fireplace and dress the dog in a sweater and she doesn't question our sanity.

This is D fake smiling in front of our tree.

"Train"

I pulled a bunch of "new" Christmas toys from smelly storage boxes and D got right to work.

Thanks to my Auntie BJ in Atlanta for this awesome advent train. For now it's decoration, but someday, we'll add chocolates in each drawer.

Muppet being a good sport. She despises clothing.

Muppet was stinky and I like to have her groomed before Uncle Brody gets here for Christmas, since he's allergic, so she was rockin' a fine haircut when she begged me to put the sweater and scarf on her. She posed in front of the Christmas tree for hours, put the camera on remote and took this shot of herself. I think it's so great, I'm having an 8x10 made. So holiday! I can hear the Christmas carols in the background now...

"Hi!" from us

You can see my bruised chin where a soccer ball made my face into a pancake. It's almost healed now.

Since Dahlia is learning several words every day, she can name lots of different things on the Christmas tree. My favorite is when she says "tiki". We have a tiki ornament from Hawaii and Nanny Brenna taught her what it was.

D learns really well with flashcard-type books. I think it's how she learned the word "cookie". Among many others, she loves to say "potty" and "poo" too. Other favorites are "ut-oh" and the old baby classic "bye-bye!"