Merry Christmas!

It is a bit late, but here is our Christmas card from this year...I have been meaning to post it, but with the computer virus we were battling, it did not happen. Thankfully the virus is gone and all of our files were salvaged :)

Going to see Santa

We tried for a second time to get a picture of Leila with Santa. The first attempt had lots of tears, but we did not build Santa up ahead of time. Last year she did great, so we did not really think about it. So before bringing her again, we taught her what he says, and showed her pictures of him, and basically got her pumped up about seeing him. Here she is walking downtown with Nana on the way to see Santa at Home & Company.

However, despite the prep, she was still very much afraid of Santa, even when Nana was right there. She did manage to say bye bye to him, as long as we were at least 5 feet away from him.

It's Christmas!

We decorated the house for Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving. Leila is doing well with not taking things off from the tree - I think it helps that the tree is pokey.

Leila has her own tree in her room that she helped to decorate.

She kept taking the ornaments back off though.

Leila is now 18 months old - I can hardly believe she is already a year and a half. So today I took it upon myself to write down all the words she says today, because trying to just remember the words she knows is practically impossible. So here is the list:

all done, all gone, apple, baby, ball, bologna, banana, barrette, bee, bite, book, bow, brr, bubble, bug, bun, bunny, burp, bus, button, bye-bye, cheerios, cheese, chicken, clock, coat, cookie, cracker, dada, dolly, down, Drew, duck, eat, eggs, elmo, eyes, grandpa, happy, hat, hay, heavy, hello, hi, hippo, hot, house, Jenna, juice, knees, Leila, light, mama, mm-hmm, Molly, money, more, nana, nice, no, nope, nuh-night, nummy, off, on, open, ouch, Paigey, papa, peas, please, pooh bear, poop, potty, pretty, Reid, Ryan, shoes, sorry, spoon, star, thank you, there, toot, train, tree, up, waffle, water
90 words!!

Plus some sounds:
(car), (monkey), arf, baa, meow, moo, neigh, quack