Thanksgiving and It's Beginning to Look A Little Bit Like Christmas

Today we begin with Lyza's napping habits. Lately it has been a battle to get her to sleep.

Sometimes it takes her 2 hours of jumping around, kicking, singing, screaming, and talking before she will fall asleep.

But when she does fall asleep we have the next two hours to ourselves. She also looks adorable when she finally falls asleep.

When Lyza finally falls asleep it is like pure bliss in our house! But it usually doesn't take long for us to miss her and secretly hope that she will wake up again so we can enjoy her shenanigans.

Like when she finds a toque and wears it around the house thinking she is so cool.

Or like when we are folding laundry and she has to "help"/try and put everything on.

Or like how she can be the cutest little eater or the most disgusting messy eater ever. This picture is more on the cute side.

She is a sweet little girl and we are blessed to have her. She is also getting excited about her little brother inside mommy's tummy.

Here is Kim at 26 weeks

We have been really excited to get into the Christmas spirit, so this week we started getting some Christmas decorations out.

Lyza got a Little People nativity set that she really likes.

Here is Lyza helping mommy decorate the tree. 

 We celebrated Thanksgiving this week with just the three and a half of us. We made a feast of a meal that could have easily fed 10+ people. We like leftovers.

 There was much more food that didn't make it onto the table...

 Thanksgiving day we had lots of fun watching movies and listening to Christmas music.

 Lyza is so comfortable eating her mashed potatoes and gravy that she has her foot up on the table. What a little lady!

 Today I took the Christmas decorating outside and hung up some Christmas lights. Its not as impressive as Clark Griswold's lighting, but it will have to do for now.

To end things off here is a little video of Lyza and her momma dancing to some Christmas tunes (to Hannah's favorite actually).

Take Care.

Once there was a...

Kim went to a Relief Society service auction where the sisters bring things they have made or services that they are offering and then they bid on the different things/services donated. One of the bids that Kim won was to have any item crocheted. She had a hat made for Lyza and it turned out great!

 Lyza loves to get up on our bed and jump around like she is on gymnastic equipment

 Typical evening with Lyza. Listening to some Pandora and reading books

 Last Saturday we went up to Spokane and to the temple. We sang a lot of I Love to See the Temple on the way up. There were two couples that provided babysitting and we are very appreciative of their service. After the temple we did some shopping (Kim's version of what happened) or we did a lot of shopping (my version of what happened).

 Toys r' Us was Lyza's favorite!

 I think Lyza agreed with me that there was a lot of shopping going on. So much that she decided to take a nap

 Running around Old Navy

 SO cute! Nice boots!

 Last night we got a lot of snow. This morning we had a quick breakfast and then got all bundled up to play in the snow. Lyza is almost 2 but this was the first time she has really played in the snow. I think she had some fun, but she didn't like falling all the time on the slippery snow. Her Canadian genes will eventually kick in and she will get more comfortable on snow and ice.

 Snowmen! Snow-family

 Lyza stole one of my branches/arms and used it as a walking stick

Lyza singing I am a Child of God

Ring Around the Rosie (read the section of the link "Plague Interpretation")

Take Care!

Halloween Fun

We had a lot of fun this Halloween. Lyza is just old enough that she could enjoy it as well.

We carved a pumpkin for Family Home Evening. We chose an Elmo shape because Lyza loves Elmo.

 This is Lyza in her Elmo costume. She loved it. She still wants to wear the tutu all the time

  Here is a video of us practicing saying "trick 'r treat"

 We went to a friends house for a Halloween pizza party. It was a lot of fun, but Lyza was scared of the giant banana. Who can blame her?

 Right before we started trick 'r treating. She was really excited

 Some of our little Halloween gang

 Lyza had a lot of fun trick 'r treating. She wasn't the most aggressive, but everyone at the doors loved how polite and sweet she was.

 She loved holding her bucket and playing with the candy. She also did not want us to hold her at all, she had to walk everywhere by herself

 Enjoying the fruits of her labors (or labours if you are in Canada)

 Chocolate! She kept telling us how yummy it was

 This is often how Lyza looks when we lay her down for bed

 But then that scene quickly degrades into something more like this

One day Lyza decided that she would run away from the car and her mom and climb a hill and slide down it

 Here is Lyza and I playing

 Lyza has always loved reading books and recently she has been memorizing parts of them and reciting them as we read to her. This is a library book that we have only had for a few days

 That's all for now. Take care.