Christmas came early at our house.

Since we'll be hitting the road to Ohio tomorrow, we opened our presents here at home today. Ms. Julia certainly got into it!! She's got the art of unwrapping figured out now. lookout!! Thank you Uncle Joe and Aunt Kim, Jeremy, Kelsey and Angie, Grammy and Grampa Hall, Uncle Norman, Robert, Riley, Great Grammy Kinney and Nai-Nai and Papa!! She had a WONDERFUL time, unfortunately we discovered that our camera does NOT have a microphone....GRRR! So while we have video there is sadly no sound. Sorry everyone, but you'll get the idea at least :) Jeremy, Kelsey and Angie the hit of the day was amazingly the old fashion pull toy you sent ;)!!! We had to hide it to get her to move on....LOL....She is truly too, too funny.

It's been a long day, so I'm just going to give you the dropshots link again and you can view pics and soundless video there. (live and learn..) On the upside, the image quality on the video is GREAT! LOL. I give up.

Go to www.dropshots.com/rgshrs Enjoy and really thank you everyone, it was a great day.

SANTA PICS!

Check out http:www.dropshots.com/rgshrs for a few more pics. I'll post one here, but frankly I'm too tired to do them all here and there, and there is easier. :)

Julia didn't do so well with Santa, she wouldn't let go of Mama (again, we tried this a week or so ago too and she didn't do any better) but this Santa stuck around long enough that she did wave "bye-bye" to him, yes "princess wave" and she let him give her bye kiss on the cheek. I guess that's as good as it gets this year. :)

We're gearing up for Christmas here. Finally got the tree up and decorated on Monday, Julia likes to just sit in front of it and stare. We've already got packages under it too for the most part she's left them alone, but Aunt Kim/Uncle Joe one of yours was ripped a little already and she DID notice that right away and wanted to tear into it some more. So I think Christmas day should be pretty interesting. We're leaving here on Dec 21st and heading to Ohio. So we're thinking we'll open some stuff here on the 20th (happy Bday uncle Norman) and then have everything else Christmas day in Ohio. Looking forward to it. Can't wait for Julia to meet the rest of her cousins and everyone else too! :)

OH and before I forget, yes Grammy Hall she has another tooth, FINALLY! It did cut through yesterday, I saw it and Daddy said "yep" he could feel it! So there ya go!! :)

Kylee's birthday present:)

Kylee gave us a call tonight and in her words ended up getting the best birthday present ever...LOL>> We got Julia to tell her "Hi, Ky-ky!"......CLEAR AS ANYTHING!!!! And with very little prompting....she's starting to become a little parrot all of the sudden repeating what we say or at least very much trying to repeat it. So while we don't have any pics of the moment, we just had to share. :)

Happy Birthday Ky! We love you!

YES, Aunt Sandra! Just to show you, we are teaching this kid to WALK!! LOL She's finally getting out there and stepping out on her own. You wouldn't believe what did the trick....we bought her a pair of sneakers at Kohls the other night that light up. Well, I put them on her yesterday and she stood by the couch for a moment, stamped her right foot 3 or 4 times to watch the lights, then checked the left foot to make sure it did the same thing. Then I took her and stood her in the middle of the room and backed a few steps away from her (3 or 4 steps) and SHE DID IT!! She walked to me!!! And to several other things throughout the day, a couple of times without even being coached. She was so proud of herself!!! So yes, for awhile I think she'll still drop to crawl often to be quicker, she has discovered that she indeed can walk!!! We are so very proud of each of her accomplishments and give her full credit for all the progress she has made since being brought home in July.

The furcoat, well okay, Mama just couldn't pass it up, and if you had seen her when we tried it on in the store, you wouldn't have passed it up either. I know I've said it before, but this girl really does like to dress up! She insisted on holding her panda for the picture. That part was completely unplanned! And yes it was cold enough to need it here in Texas this week as evidenced by the previous post!! Plus we're sure she'll get some use out of it in Ohio for Christmas...it's getting closer. Hard to believe how close really.

Happy Holidays everyone and God Bless!!