Christmas!

Well it is ridiculous how long it has been since I last posted. Idella is so active and changes so much everyday it's hard to keep up with her, never mind try to find time to do anything else! Her first Christmas has already come and gone but we had a fantastic time. We started the holiday celebrating with our friends and their daughter at their house. We had a great time and Idella loves her new Leap Frog activity table that she got. Here we are admiring the new gift!


We then celebrated our Christmas at home on Christmas eve (Santa came to our house early this year) Idella loved ripping open the paper, but then immediately tried to eat the paper, or whatever was in the paper. She didn't really care much about the cute clothes...


We spent Christmas day at my parents. There were definitely plenty of gifts for Idella to open over there. She had a really bad cold though so we gave up the idea of her wearing her cute red Christmas dress and tights and opted for the red Santa pj's with reindeer on the feet. Idella ate dinner with us and had some of the sweet potatoes which I was able to sneak some green beans into; she doesn't need to know. Then we went home and ended the day playing with all of her new stuff.

At this point she is loving solid foods, I can hardly get her to drink any formula, loves to play with a sippy cup, can roll all over the place, and can sit on her own. The sitting up thing happened a few days before Christmas. She was sitting in front of me playing and when I went to answer the phone behind me on the table I realized she wasn't leaning on me at all. I then just stood up and there she was, sitting like a big girl all by herself. I can't believe how quickly the first six months and her first two major holidays have gone by!