Christmas Tree 2009

Helping Daddy with the train

The train goes around the bottom of the tree. We got it last year and it was actually IN the tree and I just remember having to lift her up over and over again so she could press the button


This year she was old enough to hang the decorations herself.

KSC's first Christmas

The final product 2009

Anna, you're such a big girl! What a comparison to previous years! Here are the photos from last year's Christmas tree decorating: click here. This is your third one (you were 9 months old in year 1, and 21 months old last year. You're 2 yrs and 9 months old now).

You keep bringing home Christmas art from school, including one hand-print Reindeer in which you chose to glue both eyes onto the antler. Thank goodness your teacher labeled the drawing, "Reindeer" so yes, your dad and I could figure out what it was...the red nose helped a little too.

You've started saying the word "STU-pid!" and throwing whatever it is you have in your hand at the time. Not out of anger or frustration, just because it's something new you've learned to do. We're trying to figure the right way to approach this since you don't know what it really means and if we're quiet about it for a few days we're hoping it will go away. There's a fine line in teaching you exactly what pushes our buttons so if we tell you it's a bad word and don't want you to say it, you can find the right instances to use that to your advantage. Even so, we can't help ourselves and a few times already we very directly looked at you and told you not to use that word. So here we go. A little sooner than expected.

Yesterday you skipped your nap due to coughing and were exhausted and hyper and defiant when it came time to put you to bed. Daddy suggested you go read stories in your room in your sleeping bags. I thought it was a bad idea. But it worked and you passed out during the stories, and so did Daddy until I went up and woke him. Then Daddy moved you to your bed.