I'll save the pregnancy stuff for it's own post, because there's been a lot of changes and this post would become a mile long very quickly! In short, I'm now 25 weeks along and feeling great!
I am absolutely loving the Christmas season. We haven't turned off our Christmas-tree lights ever since we put it up a few days after Thanksgiving (might be regretting that on our next power bill). We've also strung old fashioned giant colored bulbs on the railing outside our apartment, and hung white lights and a canopy above our bed to add some wintery romance! Every time I go somewhere crowded I stick a festive pin to my shirt. Old lady-like or not, I've gotten a compliment on each one, hehe. Usually I hate the snow, but the lack of it last year made me long for a white Christmas and it's been fun to see how excited Lilly and David get when they wake up to a new blanket of it outside! My calendar has also been bombarded with Christmas parties! Work parties, ward parties, Relief Society parties, not to mention more than one family party. It's been really great making treats, participating in white-elephants and secret santas. David and I even bought festive plaid button-downs. It's been good. I really don't want the season to end!
I was recently released from my calling as the Assistant to the Secretary in Relief Society and am now working with the greatest ladies EVER as an Advisor in Young Women. We only have like 7 girls in the ward and their ages all range, so we all get to meet together all the time! It's been slightly challenging and I'm really nervous to be teaching my first lesson on Sunday, but I seriously love it! It really brings out the best in me to be with such a fun group twice a week.
Lilly is nearly a year and a half and is the joy of my life! She's sweet and cuddly and her giggles are to die for. I miss her the minute I have to go somewhere, no matter how frustrated I may have been with her throughout the day. She's started throwing tantrums and using the dreaded word "no". Arching her back or going limp when I pick her up, running away and flailing when it's time to change her diaper, and worst of all, hitting and head-butting me in the face when she doesn't get her way. Oh, it's a breath of much needed fresh air when David comes home from work! But those two couldn't make me any happier or feel more fulfilled than they already do! Family really is our greatest gift in life.
And just for a fun close, guess what we did to this little girl's hair? Any ideas?
Here's a little secret.. nothing! Lilly is seriously the sweatiest baby I've ever heard of! This is what she looked like when she woke up from her nap, except she was fully clothed. Poor girl has to sleep practically naked even in the winter!
Aaand just for fun (as gross as it is) David thought it'd be funny to slick her hair back with my brush. As you can imagine, it took quite a while for it to air out, and then he asked me to corn-row it. Lilly hated it so I only got 3 crappy looking rows done before she ripped the elastics out. We have a lot of interesting things go on when David's and my creativity combine. Our poor children!
Merry Christmas!
