Merry Christmas everyone!!!  We hope that you all had a safe and festive holiday.  We had a blast.  On Christmas day we went over to the Aldinger’s for a lovely dinner.  We were visited by Santa towards the end of the night!  It was such a surprise and we are so excited to make his visit a tradition throughout the years!  After our visit from Mr. Hohoho we drove over to see Matt and Shelly as we always do at some point on Christmas.  We had a great end to the evening opening presents with them and sharing stories of our crazy lives.  After that we headed over to my parent’s house where we camped out for the next two days.  It was INCREDIBLE!  Jon and I got a much needed break from 24/7 baby care.  My parents really stepped up to the plate and made sure we got the rest we have been craving for the past couple of months.  We came back home last night and poor Jon woke up this morning with a wicked stomach flu.  Now, to top it all off, the stinkin cat is in heat.  It’s been an interesting day to say the least.  I am just now finding a moment of peace as no one is puking, crying, or meowzering!

Here are a bunch of pictures from the past few day’s adventures.  Enjoy!!

Elzie meets Santa for the first time and sleeps through the whole thing!

Realizing that she was missing it all, and that Santa’s beard was falling off, Elzie made an attempt to wake up!

Attempt failed…right back to sleep!

We even tried to entice her with a story but she insisted on sleeping!

Our Christmas Cutie

I couldn’t resist a little photo shoot in this outfit!

I scored the dress at Ross for $3 and the tights at Target for $1.  There’s nothing I love more than a bargain!

Here we are at Shelly’s Parent’s house.  I couldn’t help posting all of these little family shots because Elzie’s faces are so hilarious!

This is by far the funniest I have ever seen her look!  She discovered her tongue recently so now she sticks it out as often as possible.

I’m not sure why her tights are not on in these pics

We join in the face making!

Jon thought it would be funny to torment our poor girl.

Ok, in this picture she looks like some sort of weird muppet that I have seen somewhere but I can’t remember where.  Does anyone know what I am talking about? If so, can you leave a comment with what character it is?

Here my dad is enticing Elzie to make faces at him.

It worked, look at that huge smile!!!

Elzie was covered in milk, puke and poop.  We had to come up with something on the fly to bathe her in.  I scoured my rent’s basement and found this perfectly sized bowl.  I laughed and laughed when we put her in.  How flipping cute!

Today I put Elzie in the Bumbo for the first time.  She liked it down in the living room.

But then was unsure about it in the bedroom.

Then she decided she definitely didn’t like it in the bedroom!  Hopefully once she is a little older she will start to like it more!

Here we are playing a little “I’ll stick my tongue out if you will” game.  Elzie is getting very good at making me look like an idiot all of the time now instead of just some of the time!

I hope you enjoyed all of our photos from the holiday.  I will be posting videos soon!!

Posted on December 28th, 2008 at 11:07 PM by BabyMama in Elzie