I realize saying this in the middle of January is a bit late, but HAPPY NEW YEAR! Please know that I have every intention of keeping this up to date this year. I have a renewed motivation, a "resolution" if you will, to update our blog at least once a month. We'll see how things go. So far so good :)This picture is one of my favorites from the Holidays. Not only do we love the Christmas dress from Grandma Price, but what's more we love that she would get so excited about a little plastic camel. Simple pleasures...she's so dang cute! Ok, so I'm a little biased, but still. How can you not love this little girl!?! Can you believe she's 10 months old already?!
It's pretty crazy.
Life is good at the Price home. Christmas was really great, and we loved having Jentri with us in our first house this Christmas. As was predicted, she was more interested in the wrapping paper than the actual gifts, but at least she enjoyed ripping them open. Christmas morning was off to a bit of a rough start, in that Jentri was so excited for Santa to come she woke up at 4 AM. I thought we had more time before all that Christmas anticipation stuff. Ok so the real story is that she'd been coming down with a cold and hadn't been sleeping well the poor little thing! Not a fun thing for your first Christmas. Luckily she went back to sleep that morning, but was awakened later by her dad coming down the stairs singing Christmas Carols VERY loudly. He's a pretty deep sleeper, so when he woke up he just thought Jen and I were downstairs waiting for him to open presents. Little did he know, we were sleeping! I'm pretty sure I was a little less than merry and bright that morning, my bad. Sorry Jake!
Jentri of course got some clothes and toys for Christmas. Her f
avorite things right now are toys she can shake, make noise with, and of course put in her mouth. She also loves books. I caught her just this morning turning the pages of one of her board books and pointing to things and "talking" as if telling the story. It was pretty cute. Anyway, back to Christmas...Uncle Zac and Aunt Aly got her a Tickle Me Elmo that she still will have NOTHING to do with. Even with no tickling involved she's deathly afraid of him. What's not to like about Elmo? C'mon Jen. Hopefully she'll come around.
She was a big hit in this year's Nativity at Grandma Snarr's house. She was dressed as a little lamb, and was super cute! Cousin Sydney really got into her part as Mary, and was great at protecting her "newborn babe." She felt it necessary to interrupt the narration with a classic line, "Will someone PLEASE get this lamb back to where it belongs, she's TRYING to get the baby Jesus!" We were laughing pretty hard. We knew poor Sydney was serious, but we couldn't help it. It did help a little that Grandpa (a.k.a. Joseph) just continued reading the Christmas Story....but only a little.
So there's a little synopsis of our Holiday. Life these days consists of a constant effort to keep our little one out of trouble. She's very good at and willing to pull everything out of the diaper bag, and to take all of the books off the bottom two shelves so I can dust. What a helper! She's getting much faster at crawling, and is side-steppin her way from couch to couch. She wants to walk so badly, but is still reluctant to let go of fingers just yet. It won't be long now!
She's just a happy, sweet, little cutie! (I don't know if I've mentioned that before) :) It's so fun to see her try new things and become more and more interactive. It's official--I love bein' a mom!Hope all is well with all of you. Again, I love reading your blogs and keeping in touch. Love ya'll! Have a great day!
Daddy Jake tried some pigtails, but ended up with some Shrek-like horns. Still pretty cute though! :)
