'tis the season for Christmas shirts

We love Christmas shirts around here. We just can't get enough. Makayla got this one from her Aunt Connie. It is so cute it says "I'm on Santa's List".

Makayla is standing up from the floor on her own. She thinks that she is really cool because she can stand up wherever she wants. She is taking more steps now, but she still crawls quite abit. She will walk quite a bit at home, but she won't walk much at daycare. She would also eat meat at daycare, but she wouldn't touch the stuff at home. Kids...they are so unpredictable.

expressions change

Did you realize how quickly someone's facial expression can change? Here's a great example. Please excuse the dirty daycare cothes. She played hard in these clothes all day.

Having fun just rockin' on our rockin' thingy that we got from Carrie Reaves (my friend from work that also goes to our church).

Starting to get a little freaked out. Kind of wanting off the rockin' thingy.

Demanding to be removed from the rockin' thingy.

I LOVE SANTA!

and I love this onesie that Makayla got from the Stafford's. It is just so cute that she wanted to show it off to everyone on the planet.

She wanted to let everyone know that she has a polka dot bow. Maybe she'll put it on Jennifer's carrots. We haven't given Jennifer the carrots that she won yet because we don't want her to be tempted to eat them before Christmas. It takes a while for something pickled to become pickled.

It has been cold here!

This is a picture of Makayla getting ready to go outside to help her Dad while he attempted to put up Christmas lights with the help of cousin Daniel. We got some new lights this year because the lights that we had last year would not stay in the right position, so they were flipping up, down, and all over. They just did not look good. Well this year was not much better because the strands either didn't work or were falling apart, so they went back to Wal-Mart. In short we have no lights on our house this year and probably won't.

Our little Picasso

Makayla loves to color. I bet that Santa is bringing her some big baby crayons for Christmas. Just a hunch that I have because Santa and I are tight like that. She just couldn't wait for me to show everyone her creation from lunch at Chilis's today.

I found a tooth

I found a 5th tooth in Makayla's mouth this weekend. I have been looking for another one to come in for a while on the bottom. Well you guys know how she can get to laughing sometimes...When she was laughing at me this weekend I saw it. It is half way in on the TOP. I thought that she was supposed to get more bottom teeth first, so that is where I have been looking. I have no idea how long that tooth has been there, but I am assuming at least a month or so because it is really big. It is about half as big as her front 2 teeth that she has had for a couple of months.

Am I a bad mom? Would you have been checking out the top gums?

Sorry, I'm allergic

I haven't posted this pic before because it just looks very sad. Anyway, Here's the story. About 3 weeks ago (or maybe 4 or 5) Makayla had an allergic reaction to something (we still aren't sure what it was that day). She had the reaction about 7:30 PM, and her eyes and ears swelled up like Will Smith on Hitch. This pic was taken about 12 hours and 3 doses of Benadryl later. As you can see her eyes were still quite swollen, but her ears were back to normal. It has taken us this long to get her allergy test back. I certainly hope that the test results were wrong. I don't want her to be the kid at a birthday party sitting there in her cute little party hat watching her friends eat cake and ice cream while she drinks her little cup of rice milk. That just doesn't seem fair to me. I don't want her to have to go through her life checking food labels. We don't have food allergies in the family. Makayla's Aunt Melissa had some when she was younger that she outgrew, but Nathan and I have none. Nathan is the only person that I know with no seasonal allergies at all. Here is Makayla's list which will help you understand the birthday party scenario.

Severe

Peanuts

Milk

Moderate
Eggs

Soy

How sad for her. I went to Wal-Mart to see if I could find something for her to eat other than fruits and veggies, but I couldn't find anything. Not even the organic crackers that we buy for her are okay because they have milk, soy, and eggs in them. She has to drink rice milk because she is apparently allergic to milk and soy. I called Wild Oats (a huge natural foods store) in Little Rock to see if they had some products that would work for her. The guy on the phone was so kind and sympathetic. He said that they did not have a huge selection, but we would find more there than we would anywhere else. He even said that if I have trouble finding things that I could page him, and he would help me find things that she could eat.