Santa Was Here

Christmas was hilarious this year...the joys you get from watching a little one in the moment of pure enchantment is indescribable.  Thanks be to you Summer for making our holidays, heck life so delightful.

A "little sandwich" to help Santa have a "healfy meal for his body"

The loot...Santa's elves were busy

The look of anticipation as she exclaims "SANTA WAS HERE!"

Santa is the best... as Mommy and Daddy NEVER let me eat cheeseballs

So much stuff!

A touch of December

I will never be able to catch up on this blog as December is such a huge month filled with jolly memories, tons of food and lots of friends and family.  So, here are a few pictures to take us down memory lane.

Playdate with RoRo and Katie V

Class Christmas party



Meemaw came to help me so I could wrap presents



Grandma came to town the weekend before Christmas to celebrate

She brought Grandpa too:)

All dressed up for the General Dynamics Christmas party at Golden Eagle

She chooses her own clothes...notice the green bow, silver shirt and hot pink shoes.

Christmas morning snuggles with Aunt Mame and Troy

Emily showing off Summer's Christmas Card face.

Gran Gran's house Christmas morning...overwhelmed with presents

Granny aka Gran Gran with Brett

Girls at Collins,Letchworth Christmas...sadly the last with Gran Martha

And we wonder...

why our girls get sick every time they are together!

Obsessed

Summer has a small obsession with other peoples babies...When she sees the siblings of the friends in her class she sneaks over just to kiss them or try and snuggle them.  (Sometimes a little too hard.)  It is to the point where she tells her teachers "tell my mommy I want to be a big sister."  And my response to her teacher and really everyone that asks if we will have another baby...not today my friends, not today!

Busted trying to sneak a peak

Maybe mommy won't notice if Isnuggle this one instead!

Summer "keeping her babies safe" while she naps

Nice to meet you

General Dynamics hosts a family Christmas party every year at Zoinks.  Up until this year we never really talked about Santa with Summer, as I really want to focus on the true reason for the season...Christ's birth.  Well, we didn't have to focus on Santa because everyone else did! So when we told Summer that we were going to meet Santa at the party she was SUPER excited. In fact the whole time we waited in line she had a grin from ear to ear. It was our turn and she went right up to Santa handed him her left hand and said..."It's nice to meet you Santa, I'm Summer."  Gotta love a little girl with manners. 

 

I am freaking out!




Two peas in a pod

 

Summer goes to bed pretty easily at night now that we have a night night routine which includes both Steven and me each participating in our specific roles that our little Sassy Sue instructs us each and every night.  Well one night, she was especially fussy crying out and just not settling down.  So we both go in there to try and get our little princess to calm down and get some sleep.  When we asked her what was wrong she said "I am FREAKING out in here, I am just FREAKING out...DUDE I am freaking out in here!"  Well, I hid my laughter and asked her Summer, where did you hear that phrase?  Her response...DADDY.

Nice. Real Freaking Nice.

You turned my hair black

I haven't blogged in an eternity, but now that Summer has the flu paired with ear infections in both ears, it appears I will be homebound for the week with nothing else to do but lysol, bleach and blog:)  Here's a few "Summerism" for your reading enjoyment.



Looks black to me:)



The other morning Summer was standing on her stool in front of the mirror and I was applying her detangling spray to aide in the taming of the Rod Steward look of her hair.  As I sprayed the liquid into her hair, it darkened its appearance as everone's hair is darker when wet...Well she started screaming hysterically and yelling at the top of her lungs "YOU TURNED MY HAIR BLACK, YOU TURNED MY HAIR BLACK!"  "I WANT MY YELLOW HAIR BACK RIGHT NOW."  Well, I thought this was the most hilarious thing and assured her that all would return to it's natural color when her hair dried.  This was not the answer she wanted to hear...Needless to say, we go the blow dryer out.