The Dickens

Dear Kate,

We've had another great week/weekend of Christmas activities, and a few others along the way. We met Miss EP and "Baby" Grant (you clearly are more of the baby, but he'll always be our baby Grant!) and Aunt Steph and Ellie at the library for story time. You clearly felt the story was way below your level and was boring you to death because you slept through the whole thing! We grabbed some pizza afterwards and headed over to Aunt Steph's to let your crazy sister be destructive with her crazy cousin. Please be the calm one of the bunch - please :)

You and I ran a few errands on Wednesday (and 'few' is used loosely here - all we do lately is run one errand after the other!), and Thursday we went to Sister's gymnastics and cooked candy the rest of the day!

Well, some of us cooked it. And some of us ATE it!!! That would be me and your sister. You had enough self control to just sit back and relax while we cooked and ate.

On Friday, Mimi arrived!! We did A LOT of shopping with her all day on Friday and went to Mexican Friday night. On Saturday we headed out to Dickens Christmas in downtown Franklin. We bundled you up in one of those snowsuit things because it was SUPER cold. You slept the entire time we walked around and even missed Santa. Don't worry, we went to Cece's (yes, even though it was freezing!) and guess who was there???

You sister didn't even get close, but Mommy woke you up to eat and to get a great picture!! I'm pretty sure you told him you wanted a soccer ball for Christmas. We continued to do a few more errands/shopping after Dickens and then headed home, exhausted. You, of course, were fully rested. Sunday came and you and Daddy headed over to Uncle Jaybee's to watch the game while Mommy and Abs went to a birthday party. We eventually wound up over there, which was it's own adventure in itself and I'm not sure Abs will be invited back anytime soon :)

This week has been pretty active as well. We made more candy/sweets...

Yes, she's pulling your ear, and yes she got in trouble. Abs got her haircut and insisted on cutting yours...

She gets really into it and makes you "Look at your Mommy" and "Now look down" but gets pretty frustrated when you don't do what she says. I can't seem to make her understand that you can't follow her every command just yet. She does love playing with you though. And always needs you to sit by her.

You are sweet enough to cooperate most of the time. And you continue to be such a sweet baby in general.

This weekend we have a lot of Christmas activities going on with the Clark Family Christmas and then our own little family Christmas party all before we head to Munford for a whole week of Christmas!!! I love celebrating your first Christmas little bit!!! Love you!