it's almost christmas!

well, i'm drinking my milk from a big girl cup now at mealtime. i am pretty good at using two hands and drinking it nice and slow. i have a few spills from time to time and sometimes i forget that it doesn't have a lid like my sippee cups and i shake the cup and get milk everywhere, but it's ok. i have my mommy and my doggies to clean up after me! i'm really becoming a big girl and like to do things on my own. just call me little miss independent!

i have gotten myself in the christmas spirit these days! i have an elmo christmas dvd and i absolutely LOVE to watch it. there are lots of fun christmas songs on there and i can sing along with all of them!

my friend dixie came over for lunch yesterday and we got to play and exchange christmas gifts! she got me lots of cute things, but i'm dying to try out the bathtub paints she gave me! they are three colors: red with an elmo label, blue with a cookie monster label and yellow with a big bird label! i already make a big enough mess at bathtime without the paints, so mommy is a little skeptical to let me try them out until we get back from iowa.

dixie loves to give hugs and kisses!
check out these fun pictures of us!

back home for now...

we have returned from quite a busy five days of traveling, and i must say that i'm happy to be home. i sure had fun, but it was exhausting and i need to rest up in my own bed for a few days before we hit the road again for iowa.

we left wednesday for augusta to meet brennan's new baby twin sisters blythe and brianna. they were very little babies and slept all the time while i was there so i really didn't pay too much attention to them. but i loved playing with my buddy brennan and his toys. the weather was also really mild on thursday afternoon so we played outside in his yard before the sun went down. i also got to play for a little bit with my friends colby and kylie. hopefully next time we will be able to stay a little longer so we can have lots more fun together.

on friday, we got back in the car and drove to holly springs, nc to see my friend amy. her mommy is pregnant and due on friday, so we were hoping she would go into labor so we could meet amy's new brother or sister while we were there. unfortunately, norma is still miserably pregnant so we'll have to wait till january when we go back to visit to meet the new baby. i still had a super time with amy! we had some sharing issues, but we worked it out and amy put me in my place a few times by telling me "not nice" when i did something not nice to her!

on saturday, amy was invited to three different christmas parties and we actually made it to all 3 since they were at different times of the day. amy and i made some holiday crafts like a candy cane out of beads and a frame to put our santa picture in. i got to see santa at all three parties...he probably thought that we were stalking him or something! i wasn't even scared of him this year. i went right up to him and sat on his lap and he gave me a candy cane each time. mommy let me have a little bit of the first candy cane i got, but she took the other ones and hid them from me while i wasn't paying attention. she can be sneaky, but i have a really good memory so i kept asking for them! i also got to eat lots of cookies. mommy brushed my teeth for a really long time on saturday night!

amy and i exchanged our christmas gifts early since we were together. i was so excited to open gifts! she got me this cool travel coloring book with jumbo crayons. she also got me some two rolls of duck tape! one roll is hot pink and the other is purple! amy and her parents think it's really funny that my mommy has to duck tape my diaper when i go to bed so that i don't take it off. i guess they thought that if i had to wear the tape, i might as well have some color options to choose from!

i love bubbles!

well, my mommy accidentally bought baby bath instead of baby wash when she was out shopping. she just realized her mistake so the past few nights, i have been enjoying bubble baths! they are so much more fun than regular baths!
i couldn't figure out why mommy waited so long to put those bubbles in there. i guess a long time ago when i stayed with a friend we had bubbles in our bath, but i got a little rash from them. that's probably why mommy held off on them, but i guess my skin isn't as sensitive as it used to be!
i'm glad that she wasn't paying much attention at the store because now i am a bubble bath fanatic! my cheeseball smile sure shows off how happy i am, doesn't it?!