Thanksgiving

 Claire

This week has been jam packed full of fun things and reasons to take pictures. First was the fun hair style Claire got from braiding her hair while it was wet one day and letting it loose the next when it was dry. I was so in love with the crinkly hair it gave her! It is nice to see how excited she is about playing with Shay these days and wanting to join her when she does fun things like riding daddy's big army bag through the back yard, or letting her join on the bike as she rides them. There was one morning that when she woke up she was so excited to see her sister that she gave her a big hug. When ever one gets hurt they often give each other kisses and hugs and still give kisses every night when Shay goes to bed. So much love towards each other makes me happy.

Shay

She had a really funny falling asleep position this week while we were cuddling, or at least I thought that was what we were doing and then all of a sudden she was asleep. She takes really good naps and is great at going to bed at the same time fairly easy too on most occasions. She likes some of the funniest games when daddy plays with her like trying to get away while he holds her shirt, she also likes climbing on the table and getting caught. One day after lunch she started licking the ketchup off her and Claire's plates and it was entertaining to watch her go back and forth with such attitude. There is so much desire for communication when she looks and tells us things and makes sounds trying to hard to copy the sounds I'm making. She loves reading certain books and is really good and finding balls, books, elephants, dogs, and a few other things that are in her favorite ones. But the cutest thing that happened all week was when Shay started tickling Claire.

Crafts

I've been doing a lot of sewing this past week and realized how much I am now my mom because I am watching the show I remember her watching all the time when she would sew. It was partially because I saw a lot of fun projects I wanted to try on Pintrest while looking for a specific pattern for Christmas presents and partially because I get satisfaction when they turn out so good. I feel really luck and love having my own room that I can close the door to and have a little peace from thing one and two. I tried my hand at applique and I think it turned out pretty cute so I hope to do more in the future to personalize gifts and make my homemade gifts more special.

Christmas Decorating

It has always been a tradition to decorate on Black Friday instead of shopping and I enjoy not leaving my house when there will be crazy stores. Claire enjoyed helping set up the tree, holding the lights as we went around and around and then putting the ornaments all over and telling Shay not to take them down. They were both excited when we plugged in our lights and it brightened up our living room and now they have new Christmas stuffed animals to play with. There is a snowman that plays jingle bells but Claire thinks it is singing the happy birthday song and will say happy birthday to daddy after hearing it. At first I was confused why she thought it was Chris's birthday but then one morning it was right after she played the song in the snow man and then the other morning it was Shay's birthday so that is fun.