Festive!

Last weekend, we decorated up a storm! I still need to take a pic of the outside of the house, but it looks great if I do say so myself! ;-) (Yes, I get on the ladder to hang lights while Ryan watches the baby. We have no gender stereotypes around here!)

Adelaide loved decorating the tree. She would get out an ornament, hang it, and then go back for another. While she retrieved the next ornament, I would relocate the one she had just placed to a higher branch. It was a nice assembly line effort.


We tried to take Adelaide to see Santa, and she was very excited to see "Claus!"



That is, until we got up close...


Adelaide also helped me bake a blueberry pie and she was so well behaved! She sat on the kitchen counter and only smooshed the pie crust when I told her to, and only used the big spoon to smooth the blueberries when she was a allowed. I was so proud of how well she listened. Some of her recent antics include blowing on her food when it is "hot" (or nowhere near hot most of the time), she blew bubbles from the wand for the first time, she touches her heart and our hearts, she does a dramatic rendering of many meow sounds, she LOVES Lion King, and will sing along to sounds with some interesting sound effects, she yells at us to Sit! when she wants to read books on our laps, she tells the dogs, "Good girl" if they do something she commands them to do, she puts her finger to her lips and says, Shhh!, and she started an interesting habit of tucking her sippy under her arm football-style when she is done eating and wants out of her highchair.

In other happy news, Ryan and I FINALLY closed on the loan to move this house to permanent financing, and I finished my final exams, including wretched finance. We are enjoying having some of the anxiety off our backs so we can try to enjoy the holiday season.