Christmas!!!

We celebrated Paw Paw's birthday a few days ago!

Nana and Paw Paw with all the grandkids!

Santa came!

Callie's play kitchen and our stockings

She loves the play kitchen!

wait, shouldn't I be showing her how to operate the stove??

Harley was actually begging for plastic food. The dog will eat anything.

Eating Christmas breakfast with her new baby

opening a present from Daddy

reading Grandma's Oprah magazine to Obie

We went to Grandma and Grandpa's after we celebrated Santa at home. Here is Callie and Uncle Nathan opening some presents.

Potty with Elmo!

Relaxing with Grandma

Uncle Nathan got Grandpa a new UT cycling shirt. Here he is sporting it.

Grandma and Grandpa showing Callie her new airport.

After Grandma and Grandpa's house, we went to Nana and Paw Paw's house for round 3 of Christmas! Callie skipped naptime today so she was a bit bonkers at times but she had a lot of fun playing with family!

Here is our snow belle rolling around on the carpet.

this is what I meant by bonkers

Callie showing cousin Will how shopping is done.

Paw Paw playing with the grandbabies

Will!

Nana and the grandkids.

Nana and Paw Paw and the grandkids

Cal wouldn't be still for a family photo so this is the closest one we got.

I love this picture. Mema and the grandkids and great grandkids. Hey, we made the picture... sort of.

Whoa, big preg woman on the end!

Callie pretending Nana and Paw Paw's new beach umbrella is a balance beam. She's gonna be a gymnast for sure!

We had a great time with our family today! I can't believe we had a white Christmas! Check back soon to see some pictures of Callie meeting Emory (Mike's brother Matt and his wife Mackenzie's baby girl) for the first time! They get in town tomorrow so we will post some pics of Christmas round 4!

"Meeeee Mas!"

In case you are wondering what "Meeeee Mas" is... it's Callie's way of saying "Merry Christmas!" It's hilarious when she says it. She leaves out some syllables, but hey, she tries! She also loves to say "Santa. Ho Ho Ho" She is talking like crazy these days. For the most part, I can understand what she's saying or wants, but sometimes it's just jabbering. She also loves to sing and dance. We had gymnastics class today and while everyone was running around, she was over in the corner next to a speaker dancing. Maybe we need to look into some dance classes for next year! I am completely exhausted (Christmas shopping with a 19 month old is not easy. Thanks to Nana and Aunt Julie for your help!) so I am just going to let you look at some pictures we have taken this Christmas season. The first ones are of us at the annual College Grove Christmas Parade. My parents have actually been to this before and they don't even live in the town. They said it was cute and we should go. I have had a house here for about 7 yrs and have never been but I figured it would be fun to take Callie to see Santa come to town on the College Grove firetruck and to see the dwarf ponys and donkeys as reindeer. Yep, you heard me. Yeehaw, right? Callie enjoyed it and Mike and I had fun gathering up all the candy everyone in the parade was throwing out. It was freezing and Miss Priss didn't want to keep a hat on long so we ended up sitting in the car for some of the parade. waiting for Santa...

We all just look lovely in the family picture below, don't we?!Yeehaw Santa!

The next pictures below were taken this past Sunday when Grandma and Daddy took Callie to see Santa while I helped host a baby shower for Samantha and baby Maggie. I will have to post some pictures from the shower in the next blog. I hear Callie wasn't a fan of Santa up close. She loves him from a distance.

Grandma and Callie getting ready to see Santa

She's not so sure about him up close

Ok, she gave him a high five!

The next pictures below are of our first snow this year. We spent a good amount of time dressing Callie in warm layers to play outside in the snow and she was ready to come back inside after maybe 30 seconds. I think she was more upset that I made her wear her hat than anything!

Daddy taking Callie outsideI couldn't find her mittens from last year so I put some regular kid gloves on. She was probably a little ticked about that one too.

This was before we even made it in the snow. And here we are in the snow.

I love her face... even when she is crying.

Here she is after we came back inside. I thought her footed pajamas would be a really good warm base layer. She hated the footed pjs and couldn't wait for me to take them off!

Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season and staying warm! "Meeeee Mas!" from Callie.