It's Christmas Time

We've had great weather this Thanksgiving week which was perfect for setting up the house for Christmas. Jeff spent Saturday putting up the Christmas lights and I greatly appreciate it, thanks honey!

JJ was ready to help too. He loves being with his Daddy.

He kept staring up at the roof at Jeff, I could just tell he was thinking what in the world is my Dad doing up there?!

 JJ has been wearing tons of hand-me-downs from his cousins Tyler and Nathan. This one was perfect for the day, a pair of warm and fuzzy first Christmas jammies. I'll be sure to repay the favor, Kara will have tons of girl clothes or even MORE boy clothes come their next little one.

 

When Johanna woke up from her nap she had to go outside to see where her Dad was. When she saw him on top of the roof she was very concerned at first.

"Woah! Dad! What you doing?! Daddy's so high up there. Daddy come down?"

After I reassured her that he was okay and he was putting up our Christmas lights she felt much better.

We took three trips to the store to complete our lights. The first to Target to pick up some lights and the second and third to go get the stuff we'd forgotten the first and second time out. Johanna got to pick the colors for two bushes.

 "Johanna get pink and JJ get blue?"

Look, I was there too :)

Finally after an all day affair between naps, lunch, more naps and three trips to the store we were done.

Ta-da! I love this time of year. All the neighbors out putting up their lights, families walking down to the park to play football, the air crisp but not too cold yet. Christmas is coming!

I've been patiently waiting to take our little shelf elf out and this morning he got to make his first appearance.

Johanna wasn't sure what to think of him.

After we read his story she quickly picked up on the fact she couldn't touch him or he would lose his Christmas magic. "No, no JJ don't touch."

We had to name him and we all decided on Ernie.

Johanna is still working on her potty training. She has had some awesome days one being a whole 36 hour stretch of no accidents (and some not so awesome times) but she is getting better and better! Here she is proud as can be in her little dress up outfit. I love that little girl!

Singing "A Dream is a Wish your Heart Makes," such a princess ;)

 

The weekend is almost over and I'm exhausted. Is it nap time yet...for me?