Christmas Eve Pics

 Merry Christmas, All.

We went out to play this morning before our fabulous family phone call!  Liv hasn't been riding her bike for a while and it took a while to figure out where all the "parts" go and how they work together... she still isn't peddling, but getting closer, I think.

 

 then we went for a little walk and did some tree sitting. Found some mistletoe? is that what that is?? white berries, soft green leaves - growing in clusters in the oak trees when nothing else is? Cool!

 

Hello, Tree!

She says to me "bar...??" "Close. BarK." "bark."

Funny, the stuff that she remembers! 

 

Admiring the tree, the presents underneath & showing "baby."

She'd ask me (many times) "Open This?"

"Not yet. On Christmas. or in this case ... Tomorrow."

and the wonder of very young kids - total acceptance.

hunh!

another funny story:

Liv can climb out of her crib now. I saw her do it a couple days ago - I was on the floor (pretending to nap - hoping she would...) and she braces her hands on the corner & swings a leg up onto the side, pulls the other leg up then drops down feet first onto the floor - still holding the top rail.

Later that same day, I was on the phone and heard her wake up from an actual nap - but figured, she has a couple books and animals in bed with her, she'll be fine for a couple minutes - usually she is! But a minute later I hear ~shuffle, shuffle, shuffle~ then Liv comes around the corner and says "Good Morning, I Wake Up!"

Now, we knew it was almost time, and have been talking about it for a while, plus with baby sister coming, Jeff and I ordered a big bed for her last week. but its not here yet...

But the bedding came! So we've been warming up with the idea of "Liv's big bed and new blankets" by putting them on the couch in the LR.- I think she likes it!