Santa

We took Willow for her first meeting with Santa. The stunned look on her face could be for a variety of reasons...

a. she'd just woken up from a not-long-enough-nap.

b. Santa and the "Snow Queen" kept referring to HER as a HE (combined, they probably referred to "him" or "he" 20 times in our brief visit....literally! Good thing we found it comical. Note to self: put Willow in a red foofoo dress next year!)

c. the person taking the photo was shaking one of those obnoxious clappers to get "him" to look at the camera.

d. deep down Willow knows that all of her gifts are from Mom and Dad.

Cheerios

Willow has been enjoying Cheerios for the past week and has gotten pretty good at feeding herself! I love watching her little lips as she chews =)

Willow, what does a motor boat sound like?

Willow's BFF

Willow's BFF, Cadence, is 2 months old already!! She's following in Willow's footsteps in joining the 90th %ile ranks, too!

Willow says, "Mrs. Morgan, can Cadence spend the night tonight?" (Morgan says, "No. Cadence sleeps through the night. I don't want you to wake her up." haha)

Willow says, "My mommy and I can't wait until next summer! Only 6 1/2 more months! The countdown is on!"

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!

She pulled off an ornament within 5 seconds of being sat down in front of the tree, so I'm not sure how much time she'll be "playing" by the tree this year!

In Reverse

Willow is VERY excited about the idea of crawling but hasn't quite figured it out yet. She's getting very good at going in reverse, which has gotten her into some precarious positions...

This afternoon she backed herself all the way into the living room. We'd better enjoy our last few weeks (?) of limited mobility!!

A Few of Willow's Favorite Things

Blocks...or anything that fits in her mouth.

Knocking down towers of blocks

Pushing down her pop-up toy (she's only accidentally popped one up on her own)

Rings...of all shapes and sizes

Her beloved purple elephant (aka "purple pachyderm")