The two most important people in my life!

Josh is such a wonderful father to Lizzie. She gets so excited in the morning when she wakes up and sees him. She giggles and pulls his hair. This ironically helps Josh wake up in a really good mood. Then he usually gives me a 5 minute break for me to have the bed all to myself in peace while he changes her diaper. I treasure these 5 minutes, oh the majesty of it!

Christmas - this year it can be summed up in one word : exhausting. I loved spending time with my family and they all adored seeing Lizzie. But I wanted to collapse after all 6 of my family Christmas's. Lizzie held up better than I did, of course, I was taking care of her :0) Yes, we went to Riley, Manhattan, Hutchinson, Topeka and Randolph for Christmas. In the future we will try and work out a way to combine a few of these for my sanity.....

LIZZIE:
Lizzie is astounding me with her development. She can move around the room by rolling or now her new thing, pivoting. She gets up on her hands and feet, pivots and sits back down. This frustrates her, however, because she doesn't get where she wants to go that way. She also loves getting into stuff now! Some of her favorite things to do are dump toys out of baskets or get into the diaper bag. And yesterday for the first time, she opened a bottom drawer and pulled out the contents! Yes, as of today I must be ever so much more watcheful of her.

Oh, and lets not forget her endearing screams. If she is not getting what she deems adequate attention, she will let me know with a loud and shrill scream. Thankfully, this is not a common occurrence.

I promise to post photos of our house soon. God bless you all!