She did an awesome job helping to decorate the tree. The trick was getting her to leave the ornaments alone after the tree was done! It’s nice having a real tree this year, it smells SO nice!
Kaylee sang us Jingle Bells while dancing around the tree as we were putting the lights on it. It was very festive.
We brought out the stockings and Kaylee was a little confused about what to do with them at first. She kept asking where the other one was. LOL
I put up some lights on our banister and she enjoyed looking at them before bed time one night. It looks like she’s trying really hard not to touch them.
Kaylee was such a big helper with making the Christmas cookies this year!! She LOVED it!! Her favorite part? Eating the dough, the frosting, and the sprinkles of course! She was pretty wired for a while! Good thing we had all day for her to run around.
She even helped to roll the cookies into balls…or snails, as she called them. The chocolate ones don’t look quite right, but they turned out great!
In November we noticed the carpet getting wet after it rained. After further investigation, involving ripping out all of the built in shelving on the basement wall and tearing down the paneling behind it, was a crack in the wall that went from the ceiling to the floor!! Luckily we’ll be able to salvage the carpeting that was near there, but we need to redo the wall completely.
Here’s what our patched crack currently looks like. We have a lot of work ahead of us to get the room back together, but I actually like how it looks without the built in shelving. The room looks so much bigger!
Having to rip down the shelving also gave Jesse an excuse to buy a new TV, since we were limited to TV size with the built in unit. Here is Jesse showing off our new TV, thanks to an awesome Black Friday super-secret deal from Best Buy. It fit perfectly between the fireplace and vent in the wall.
Now it's time for an early Christmas present! I'm pregnant :) I am currently at 17 weeks and have an ultrasound coming up in January where we'll be able to find out if we are having a girl or a boy. I'm SO excited, I can't wait! Jesse thinks the odds are in our favor for having a boy, but those Freier girl jeans seem pretty strong! We shall see! I will post more pics of Little Fuzz after the ultrasound, but until then here is a belly shot and the first look we had of Little Fuzz at 13 weeks.
I've started showing WAY sooner than I did with Kaylee and I'm sure I can feel Little Fuzz moving around in there already! It's so exciting! I'm much happier now than I was a couple of weeks ago. I had a heavy case of morning sickness and was mostly limited to soups and yogurt being the only thing that my stomach would not throw a fit about. Everyone seems to think I'm having a boy because of it :) The nausea is gone now, thank goodness, and I may even have started gaining weight this week. I had lost 10 thanks to the nausea! Now I've had lots of cravings and aversions. To my husbands dismay I can't stand the smell of popping popcorn or Doritos. Most fried foods are a turn off too which means most fast food places are off my diet, not necessarily a bad thing. I've really been craving fresh fruit, salads, potato salad, Sobe drinks- especially the Macintosh Apple Cherry, and lots of tomatoes. Last week it was BLT sandwiches and the week before that was meatball subs both loaded with extra tomato. Too bad it's not tomato season anymore!
As an extra special treat Jesse and I got to travel out to Arlington, Texas for our friend Amy's wedding reception. She got married in Australia in October and we were able to afford the airfare all the way out there, so I made sure we were able to make it for the Texas reception! We were calling it our mini-babymoon, since this is likely the only time we will be able to get away before Little Fuzz comes. We had a great time with our friends Amy and Danielle! Kaylee had a lot of fun playing with Grandma while we were gone.
The funniest part about when us girls get together is we are always asked if we are sisters! That evening the grilled cheese station lady asked us :) Even though they are not related by blood, I still think of them more like sisters. No matter how far apart we are or how long it's been since we've seen each other, we always pick back up right where we left off, just like it was only yesterday.
It was a little foggy from the smoke machine, but Jesse managed to get some shots of us dancing the night away. He even joined us for a few songs at one point :)
Auntie Danielle made Kaylee a super cool dinosaur tail and a space shuttle pillow for Christmas. Kaylee LOVES them! She sleeps with the shuttle pillow, which she calls her 'spaceship' and she loves wiggling with her tail. It's too funny not to share!
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