Merry Christmas

Wishing you and your families a wonderful Christmas season. May God bless you all in the coming year. I will be back to blogging after the Christmas season.

Wordless Wednesday - Boots

Free time

I am so excited about tommorow morning! My mom is comming to get Naomi in the morning and is going to bring her back in time for her afternoon nap! This means that I get an entire morning to myself. What am I going to do with myself? I am torn between the things that I should do and the things that I want to do.
I should organize the hall closet, bake some cookies, clean the house from top to bottom, and go to the gym.
But what I want to do is crawl back in bed after Naomi is gone, read my book for a while, get up and take a really long shower. Then blowdry my hair and head into town and buy some long overdue new clothes. Ahh, then I will come back and meet Naomi just in time to put her down for a nap. Then the afternoon of silence will be mine too! Sound to good to be true? It might be, I'll let you know tommorow how it went.

Let the madness begin...

It seems that Christmas gets busier every year. This year is no exception. Here is the itinerary for the next 10 days...

15th - Set up for Christmas banquet at church, Baby shower for my sister in law, banquet in the evening, my brother comes home from New Zealand
16th - Church, lunch with my parents and brother, Family gathering with the extended family.
17th - Angie' birthday, gift exchange with Ed
18th - Opa's Birthday, Christmas dinner with my parents
19th - Mom-in-law's birthday
20th - Get together with Capells and gift exchange
21st - Brian and Hilary arrive from Ontario, dinner out at Milestones, Ron's work party
22nd - Last minute preparations, maybe get together with friends.
23rd - Church, our Christmas celebration (Dinner at the Keg, opening gifts, and watching National Lampoons Christmas vacation)
24th - Christmas eve, Kids Choir program at Church, opening gifts at my parents
25th - Christmas day, open gifts at my in-laws, extended family gathering in the afternoon.

Phew! all these wonderful things to do in the next two weeks. Ahh.. Christmas time, before I know it will all be over and we will start looking forward to next year.

9 months

Here is a photo collage of Naomi's last 9 months. She has changed so much, and yet she is still the joy of our lives.
She is crawling in her own style (a few seconds of conventional crawling, then falling down onto her tummy, sliding along by pushing with her feet, and finally rolling to her desired destination). Once she gets were she wants to go she looks up at us with a huge smile! She is so proud of herself.

But, her favorite pastime is walking/running around the house while she holds onto our fingers. In this picture she is all dressed up in her Christmas dress. She looks so great! I can't wait for Christmas.
We have been wanting to take her to go see Santa for the past few weeks, however Naomi has been fighting with the most horrible cold. The poor things is so congested, and is really not acting like herself. She HATES getting her nose wiped (along with all other child in the world), and cries every time we get near her with a tissue. Hopefully, she will be on the mend soon and we can finally get out of the house during the day (I am going a little crazy!) I am thankful that she is getting this cold now and not right over the Christmas holidays.