Festivities

Things are looking pretty festive around the house these days! We've had a super busy week, from painting Josie's room and putting up all the Christmas decorations. We LOVE Christmas, easily observable by our 8 Christmas trees! There's lots of talk and excitement around here in starting some new family traditions, even though J is too bitty to remember, we're excited to start the fun this year. One of the cutest families I know does the Magic Elf with her girls, and the love it - so we're off to find an elf for our very own. I have a few more traditions we're going to start, but I'm most excited about this one - and especially a few years down the road! We haven't had a chance to visit Santa just yet, but hopefully soon. Dad wants to make sure he's with us, so we're going to have to fight the crowds one of these weekends.


Josie's growing and growing. I'm not sure exactly how much she weighs these days - but I'm thinking at least 13lbs! This girl smiles CONSTANTLY, even in her sleep! Speaking of sleep - she's started this waking up at 3 am thing (after several weeks of going from 8pm to 5am straight), and we don't know why. But after the bottle goes right back to sleep until 7ish - so it's still a good schedule we think. I know one day I'll be sad and miss the middle of the night cuddles - so I'm not going to worry about it. She'll usually even go back to sleep until 9 after her morning bottle. We love the little undershirts with the hand flaps, and we still use the little mittens to keep her hands warm. We keep the thermostat up, but it's so easy to catch a chill - plus we think she's pretty cute in her "boxing mitts", as dad calls them ;) Photo taken this morning during her nap, she doesn't usually have the big blanket, for saftey reasons - but a little cover while I was sitting next to her watching her sleep.

OH! and she's LOVING the Bumbo (we call it a butt-sie seat ;)). We made cookies this week and she just chatted my ear off enjoying her new sitting perspective. She's a wee bit young for the Bumbo, but we decided to give it a try (with constant supervision) considering how very strong her legs, back and neck are - and she's loving it.