Thursday, December 27, 2007

Christmas Eve at Grandma G's

Courtney's first Christmas... and what fun having a little one around again for the celebration! Of course everything seemed to center around her, including photos. :-) Here she is all decked out in her pretty Christmas outfit with Uncle Alex and Auntie Jess:

Sure is tough crawling in a dress, though!


So later she got her jammies on... not so much for "crawlability" as in anticipation of her getting tired and ready to sleep. Here she seems to be just about out of energy as she pulls things out of her stocking. ("Yeah, right, Mom and Dad... I'm only resting up here... conserving my energy in my own anticipation!")

Yep, the second wind took hold quickly!
She loves having things in both hands at once, especially if they rattle. She also likes to crawl with things in both hands.
And here she's checking out Auntie Jess's new "toys".

Her energy lasted well into the evening... WAY past bedtime! Check out her energetic present-opening demonstration:

She held out very well and only got fussy AFTER she was tucked into bed. But she did eventually give up. A little girl's gotta get her rest... after all, there was more celebrating and gifts to be taken care of the next day, too!
Willow 'n Wispy did their resting through the entire gift-opening. :-)

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Our Christmas project

Jess and I decided some time ago that our family needed new Christmas stockings, since our old ones were just kind of a hodge-podge of el-cheapos. Long story short, we ended up making new stockings this past weekend, hoping we could get them done in the couple of days that Jess was here before Christmas Day. Suzi (Courtney's mommy) came over, too, and we set to work. Even Pa helped cut a few circles.

We didn't get them all finished in time for Christmas, but we did manage to finish them before Jess 'n Alex left this afternoon, so they'll be ready to go for next year! We had tons of fun, and here's a picture of our creations:

Aren't they lovely? We're pretty proud of them! And Jess gets most of the credit for their designs! :-)

BTW... no, there aren't 10 in our family... yet... but we made 3 extras in anticipation of additions down the road (and no, none on the way... yet!). :-)

Poll Results

Our last poll, "Are you able to crack eggs into a bowl singlehandedly?", resulted in a 3-way tie: 2 votes each for Yes!!, No., and No, but I want to learn. Not so many voters this time. I guess everyone was busy trying to see if they could crack those eggs singlehandedly... or possibly just baking... or the many other things associated with the holidays. Yeah, I missed a few days here myself... and not for cracking eggs! ;-)

I had a terrific Christmas, and I hope all of you did, too!

Stay tuned for my next post to see what I did spend a considerable amount of time on over the weekend!

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

First visit with Santa

"Mom, do I have to?"
"Pretty fake beard, if you ask me."

"This isn't the real one! Let me outta here!!!"

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Daddy's little girl

"I just need to touch that tree."


"See my nice teeth?"


"I have jeans like Daddy's!"