Santa and Dory- wordless Wednesday

Dorothy ran to Santa and gave him a huge hug!!!!

 camera phone photo- poor quality

Christmas Adventures!

Saturday                                           

So our plan was to go cut down our tree this year but money was tight and we didn't have much time to go cut one down so we went to Lowes! I am pretty sure Lizzy still had a lot of fun!



I am pretty sure Lizzy just wanted to pick one and go home...she was ready for bed! This is her "Are You Done Yet?" look!

On Sunday we went to the Bowdainham Fire Station and saw Santa for the first time. She wasn't even interested a little bit, It was so funny!

She was much more interested in the sparkling lights then Santa!

For not crying, she got her first Christmas cookie! And yes she ate quite a bit of it!

Chillin on the fire truck!

So after this we went to Lowes to find something that would help our overgrown tree to stand straight. We got what we thought we needed and went home. Jimmy made dinner while I unhooked the tree to fix it, that is when we figured out that the trunk wasn't even touching the bottom of the tree holder. That was why it kept falling down! Rookie mistake I know! After weeding out our tree (a lot), we decorated it. Pretty uneventful, but fun. Lizzy was so tired though that she crawled under the tree and fell asleep while we finished decorating it! It was the sweetest thing ever, I took a picture and then found out later that my memory card was damaged! I am still trying to fix it and when I do I will post the pictures of tree decorating!

 

Christmas pics!

                                      Preview of Christmas photos taken by my Mom!!!!

Beautiful Smile@ 31 WEEKS!

 

Wordless Wednesday

Sorry about the fuzzies! Phone picture!

Busy week

Been a crazy week starting with Thanksgiving, then Black Friday, then sleeping and Tree Lighting, then church and more sleep because I came down with the flu on Sunday, then Grammies on Monday and then Camera Club ..at Grammy's house today!!

Going home to pass out and then tomorrow to clean and decorate! Well decorate some more!! Can't wait to get our tree this weekend!!! Some how I have lost an entire tote of Christmas decorations :( ...hopefully I can find it soon! It has all the window and wall decorations and my nativity scene! Really hope it is found soon!!

So today marks the day that  Lizzy is an official crawler!! Look out world!! She was crawling backwards and kind of creeping but she has finally figured it out!! My days of relaxing with my Child are over I think! 

So  I used to be a very frugal person and somehow when I had my daughter I changed my thinking and decided that we need everything the world has to offer. Now of course I didn't go on a huge shopping spree but I still WANT all these things in commercials, news fliers, what other "good" moms are toting around! (Believe it or not, Jimmy is just as bad!)

It is hard sometimes to know the difference between needs and wants! I am grateful to be able to say that with jimmy working that we don't really need anything (sometimes we are a bit short, but we have food, shelter and clothing) now with that being said we both still have problems making sure we don't go overboard getting everything we want.

Is this a common problem? 

Any advice on how to be content on what we are able to have and give?

Also how do you raise a child that is content with what they receive and more then eager to give! I try to be that way (I'm pretty sure I succeed most of the time...maybe) but is there a good way to make sure that Lizzy and her family remember the true reason for Christmas?????

7 MONTHS OLD!

                                       Elizabeth Standing holding onto something at 7 months!

Elizabeth is now crawling...slowly...but I don't think that will last long :)

She eats all the time and had her first meat (turkey) on Thanksgiving!

She sneaks up on the cats and tries to pull their tails!

She recognizes Jimmy and calls him Dada (she calls everyone else MAMA)

Her favorite things are finger painting with her food,  jumping in her Roo, being read too, dancing, other people singing, watching Mickey Mouse on TV and playing with her Minnie Mouse stuffed animal!

She has mastered drinking water and juice from a cup!

She still enjoys rolling everywhere and pulling objects off low shelves!

She loves Christmas lights!

So far she likes Santa!

Well, That's the highlights for now!!

Happy 7 months Lizzy!!