Cookies For Santa

This afternoon Sam and I made cookies and decorated them for Santa. Sam made sure he inspected and sampled each cookie first! I sure hope Santa likes A LOT of sprinkles...

Harper

BabyLegs

I swear I am not getting paid for this endorsment but I wish I was! When Sam was first born I read about babylegs on another mommy blog. I thought they were so cute and filed it away in case I ever had a baby girl who I would love to put in babylegs. We don't stay cold for very long but who cares, I thought they were adorable- baby leg warmers:) They also protect their legs when they start crawling- I was sold:)

Today, at Target, they had babylegs!! Oh yeah, dressing a baby girl can be so much fun!!

And here they are...




If you enlarge this last photo you can see how swollen Harper's gums are- where are those teeth??

Recent Family Pictures

We had our pictures taken by Amy Smith so I wanted to post all of them- I just got them back. She does such an amazing job!

7 Months Today

Weekend

We had a really great weekend getting ready for Christmas. Things started out a bit shaky with Sam having a stomach bug but he quickly recovered. We put up our tree and put in some new shelves in the garage which allowed me to re-organize things out there.I love to clean and organize and I was pleased with the results. My parents came over on Saturday to help out a bit and watched the kids while Russ and I ran out for a quick dinner.

I really have enjoyed starting Christmas traditions with Sam this year. He is really getting into Christmas and all he wants is cars from Santa. He enjoyed helping us put the ornaments on the tree today.

Tagged

I was tagged by Jenn over at Patience is a Virtue.

First, the tagging game's rules:
Link to the person who tagged you.

Post the rules on your blog.
Write 6 random things about yourself.
Tag 6-ish people at the end of your post.
Let each person know he/she has been tagged.
Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

1. I used hot rollers to style my hair up until about 2 years ago. Retro, huh? I also believed I had to roll my hair at least two times to get it right before I headed out the door. I finally switched hairstylists and got such a great cut the rollers were gone!

2. The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is drink about 1/4 a can of coke. I think I am addicted to it at this point.

3. On the topic of caffeine, the hardest thing for me to give up while pregnant was caffeine. Take my red wine- I could care less. I really missed the caffeine.

4. I have trapped and spayed/neutered at least 25 feral cats in our neighborhood. At one point we had 7 cats in our house. We are down to 4 now. Yes, I am that crazy cat lady you fear.

5. When I decide to do something, I really do it. I started getting into orchids and I read/researched everything I could and ended up with 50 in our yard. That hobby went away when I had kids- no time! I am now into my Nikon camera and photography. This I can do with kids because all I do it take pictures of our kids:) It is a perfect match...

6. I have a very high pain tolerance. I can get very focused and relaxed and withstand a lot of pain. I attribute my two drug free deliveries of my babies to this fact. I didn't yell or curse at Russ once. What amazing births they were:)

My Helper