Christmas Video

Here is our little princess and daddy on Christmas.  Note the outfit and the Christmas socks.  She was having a tough tummy day and we had to change her outfit a few times and the only thing that survived were the socks!! 

Christmas!

Taylor's first Christmas was amazing! What a little doll she was for all of these hectic holiday events.  First she was just an angel for Santa and then would not stop talking and laughing all through Christmas Eve and then enjoyed all of her toys on Christmas morning....at least for a few minutes at a time. 

        

We had a Christmas Eve outfit for her and a Christmas outfit for her. She is going to hate us in about 15 years I'm sure! :o) But how cute!! 

        

Christmas Eve we spent with one of our best friends, Candy, and had a great dinner and dessert and opened stockings that Todd snuck out and put together for us a few days prior.  Taylor was having a great time as you can see from the video I posted in our last blog. 

What a Christmas her Grammy and Grandpa Smith and Auntie Amy gave our new little family!!!! My goodness, Todd is losing more and more closet space every day.  She has toys, books, clothes, shoes, headbands, piggy banks, savings accounts....it was absolutely incredible.  And there is no better gift for a new mommy than an amazing camera to take pictures and videos with.  I was blown away! 

I made Guilt Free Wheat Pancakes with fresh fruit and whip cream and some egg whites for breakfast and Todd made a sweet and sour dish for dinner that was soooo good.  Then we had low calorie pumpkin cheesecake for dessert that took me all day to make and had to sit in the fridge for 4 hours! We ate it around 11pm.  It's actually really fast and easy to make, I just had a ton of interruptions and Todd had to make a run to the store for a missing ingredient. 

What an amazing day!! 

A Christmas Eve Video

Here is as short video of Taylor and her Auntie Candy on Christmas Eve with her adorable little outfit on that her Grammy Smith and Auntie Amy got for her! 

Santa and Shots

Look at our baby girl with Santa! :o) We could not have been happier with how this turned out.  She is really the happiest in the mornings but Todd and I had so much to do that day that we didn't get to the mall until after 4:00 pm sometime.  We headed right for the family lounge and I gave her a snack and changed her bum and her outfit and we headed right for Santa's lap.  The coat was really annoying her but it was pretty easy to distract her with all that was going on in the mall. She loves looking at all the bright lights.  I couldn't take it off though, look how cute it is, I mean really! ;o) 

So we go from fun with Santa to shots this morning.  I really was not looking forward to it.  We got to the doctors office and as usual there was a problem with insurance.  She is almost two months overdue for her first shots, it's raining and 40 degrees outside and we've been taking her to Kids Klub at the gym.  There is no way in hell I was leaving that office without her shots. I had them call the insurance company and thankfully we straightened things out.  We headed back into the room and by this time we had been there an hour and it was almost her nap time.  I was almost in tears already just anticipating her tears.  She needed one oral vaccine and 3 shots in her little ham-hocks (legs!).  As soon as the first shot was in she was howling and my tears were flowing....and then the 2nd and then the 3rd.  Todd took her and the nurse gave me some tissue and then we had to wipe my tears off of Taylor's head.  Todd thought she was crying out her forehead.  She was pretty upset until we stuck the pacifier in her mouth and she was sleeping in a matter of minutes. 

They suggested we give her a warm bath and bundle her up when we got home so that's what we did. I gave her some Tylenol and she ate and then had a warm bath and took a nap.  So far she has been doing good. She is pretty fussy but sleeping a lot. Poor thing!! I'll give her a little baby massage tonight and some more Tylenol and hopefully she'll be fine by tomorrow. 

 

I love this shot with her little mohawk!

  

Here is another shot of her in her new chair!

 

Look, an outfit that isn't pink!!