Merry Christmas

The Christmas break has been WONDERFUL and restful!! Taylor is sleeping so good these days, and Dustin and I are LOVING that. She had a great time at Christmas, opening every one's gifts. She's learned a few more tricks, too. She's started saying, "up, please" when she wants up on the couch or chair. I'm pretty impressed that she's putting two words together. Of course, as far as I'm concerned, this makes her a genius! :-) She's also started saying her name, which you've just got to hear. It sounds like "Tay-la". Any picture you point to and ask her who it is, she says Tay-la! Love it!

Also, the other day, I was doing dishes with rubber gloves on. When I took them off, Taylor grabbed them and wanted me to put them on her. She wore those silly things for like 45 minutes. We start 'em early around here...

Here are some pictures of Taylor playing in her crib a few weeks ago. The light coming in her room was just beautiful. And this was after like 3 or 4 straight days of fog...so the light was wonderful!

Playing peek-a-boo
We went to see Santa at Southland before school let out. Let's just say, we didn't waste the gas going to Santa Land this year...



Here are a few pics from the annual Settle/Wall/Caldwell/Winchester Christmas party. Darn-it, we didn't win the "leg lamp". Maybe next year...

Taylor and Riley