Christmas Time

This Christmas Season has been such a wonderful one for our family.  It has been such a joy to share it with our little toddler, Ana.  She is such a fun little person to be around.  She is so excited about all the new things going on around here.  She just loves the lights and Christmas decor.  She "helped" me decorate the house by taking out all the decorations.  She loves the lights on the tree and the lights on the garland on the banister.  We start out each morning by her asking for me to turn them on.

She loves to undecorate and redecorate the tree on at least a daily basis.  She has only broken two ornaments so far. We have an advent calendar and she loves to help open each day.  She has started to sing Christmas songs.  She sings "Silent Night" and "Frosty the Snowman."  She loves to watch "Frosty the Snowman" it is her favorite show right now.  She will say "see show?" and then start singing "Frosty the Snowman."

We were lucky to have my Mom come up and visit for a week.  Ana is just enamored with my Mom.  She calls her Nana.  While Nana is here I am not permitted to do anything for Ana.  She wants Nana to help her with her shoes, change her diaper, get her dressed, hold her, and play with her 24/7.  I am sure my Mom was exhausted when she got home.  Ana was heartbroken when Nana left and walked around the house for days saying "Nana?"

Christmas Day was so much fun.  Ana was so excited about her stocking and opened her first present during her diaper change.   Ana got a toy kitchen and tricycle from Santa.  She was so excited about the kitchen and has remained quite in love with it.  She makes all sorts of food for all of us.

Her favorite food to make is cookies.  She makes cookies and loves to feed them to her new baby in the new high chair she got.  She was really excited about her new tricycle to! She also got a tee-pee.   She likes to hide in there from her Dad.  She also always wants me to go in there and take a nap.  She will get a pillow and blanket for me and tell me "night, night."  She was so cute and excited about all of her new toys.  It was such a fun Christmas!