Not a Christmas pic however this just shows my daughters personality to a T. We were at a party where she was one of 2 kiddos. Did that bother her? No not at all. Here she was intently listening to the adult conversation of strangers and commenting on how beautiful the ladies both looked. She sat here for about 20 min engaging in their conversation. It was hilarious!
Ok now for Christmas. I have to start by saying that we had a great Thanksgiving with the Haynies. Caleb wasn't feeling well so he was a bit crabby but Madi loved turkey and had fun with her cousins. Joe got to blow up a pumpkin and we saw a ton of "santa's reindeer" in the driveway. And did I think to get just one pic of the festivities? Nope Sorry but now it is documented at least! Both Joe and I had the weekend after thanksgiving off so we planned a trip to the "north pole" to get our Christmas tree from santa and planned a weekend of decorating and getting ready for christmas. However we spent a rather scary weekend attending to Joe's family has his dad had a stroke that friday. I am happy to report that all is well and he has been recovering nicely but it did chance our weekend and following week drastically!
Poor Madison didn't quite know how to take it all in so she promptly told her preschool teacher the following monday that we were not having Christmas at our house this year... I was quite distraught by this and took action! We went to "santa's workshop" to get a tree from the elves (Walmart) because we didn't have another weekend to go to the north pole and I didn't want to wait any longer to get christmas up as Madi was soooooooo sad. It ended up working great because Caleb is now into everything and with the fake tree only being 6 feet we were able to put it up on the 2 foot table and not only does it look great but he can't get to it! After going to the workshop and getting the tree we spent the next few days decorating and getting into the christmas spirit! (we didn't get our lights up outside this year but oh well!) Madi's favorite part of the christmas decorations is all my nativities or "tepleties" as she calls them. It is quite amazing to watch her play with them and she will spend hours pretending and playing! I also relinquished all control and let her decorate the christmas tree. I have even resisted the urge to move the clumps of ornaments and spread them out around the tree. She is so excited about christmas this year that I figured she could have "her tree" We has really enjoyed the fun that Madi has brought to this holiday season. She loves Christmas lights and her favorite song is currently I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. We have a house in our neighborhood that has a video projection of Santa in the front window. We love driving by and seeing it at night and Madi is thoroughly convinced that Santa's workshop is just around the corner from us. Needless to say she has been SOOOO good this month. We are now very impatiently waiting for the arrival of aunts, uncles, and cousin Will and look forward to the rest of the month.
If Santa's village was located next to the stable it would look like this...
Daddy untangling ornaments
Admiring her work
putting the star ornament on top
we were so happy to have daddy home to help!
yes ALL the ornaments ended up right in this area of the tree, its beautiful!
so happy that christmas came back to our house
Her tree all finished
my attempt to get a few cute christmas pics...
the christmas ham
it wouldn't be christmas without papa's fireplace...only this year Madi figured out that there is NO way santa can come down our fireplace. We are going to make a "santa key" so he can come through our front door this year.
Santa's little helper
The beautiful tree
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