Christmas Carol & Lawry's

We made our yearly trip to see The Christmas Carol and Lawry's as another Janzen family tradition. This year the play was a little different than years past, but we all still loved it. It's nice to see the little changes when you go and see it every year. It's always a great time. Michael wasn't feeling well the night before and he was a little worried he was going to miss out. He was a champ and made it on Saturday, and had no problems eating at Lawry's.

Making cookies

We decorated sugar cookies with Lily and she had a great time. She had to keep "trying" them, to make sure they were ok. I can't wait to see what she's like next year with them. We never got around to making a gingerbread house, there's always next year.

December pictures

Cheese!

Cleaning up!

Lily hanging out in her bouncy house.

Lily decorating the tree in her room with all her "guys".

Lily didn't like her haircut this time as much as she did in October.new haircut!

Attempting to get our Christmas card picture. :)

Waiting in line for Santa.

Kicking off Christmas!

We went to the tree lighting ceremony in downtown Libertyville. It was cold, but we layered and poor Lily looked like Randy from A Christmas Story. :) Santa rides in on a firetruck and once he finally arrived and lit the tree Lily said "Ho!Ho!Ho!" and then "Home Bean and Winnie".

Happy Thanksgiving

This year we celebrated Thanksgiving with the Janzen's. We tried again to get a picture of the 3 grandkids and of course, no luck. Uncle Jack and Aunt Beth joined us and I think the kids kept them entertained.

Catching up

I know that I'm really behind on the blog, I do really well for a few weeks and then life takes over and I fall behind. I'm sure that will happen often once Olivia arrives. :) Lily transitioned into her big girl bed and for the most part it went well. She's still taking about a 45 minute to an hour nap, and bedtime hasn't changed much. She does wake up a little scared from naps once in a while, but other than that, not bad.

Here are some pictures of Lily from November.

Classes

Lily's gymnastics (tumbling) class has ended, and her music class has started. She loves her music class, and I don't think she'll miss her tumbling class at all. Lily loves to dance and listen to her music. There should be an "open gym" type music class for toddlers. Have a place where they can go and dance around in a big group and burn off some energy.