A Giving Spirit

Aiden was all for getting ready for the holidays. She loved decorating the tree, hanging the lights and making Christmas cards, but her favorite thing was making cookies for SANTA! I originally set aside about five cookies for her to decorate, thinking that she would get bored after that many. Haha, Mom! Nice try. Guess I was wrong. She decorated about 20 cookies! Painting and then dipping (her idea). She had so much fun! I just love that smile on her face of "Oohh! Look what I just figured out!" I even found the best, kid friendly cookie cutter from dollar tree. $1, 6 shapes. Can't beat that!

 Of course after baking we headed to Aunt Cindy's house for the Mead get together. I don't think anything could have separated Aidie and her "PawPaw" once they got together. They haven't even seen eachother very much, but I'm thinking they are quite the pair already. They read stories, watched a movie, and later she got to be his little elf to help pass out Christmas envelopes. She was LOVING it!

Way more to come. Stay tuned!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas #1

Christmas at Our House

Very much a picture post (with more picture posts to come)! Since we spend the night at my in-laws for Christmas Eve, we told Aidie that Santa would be stopping by early during her nap. Here we are having our family Christmas. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did :-)

 Rub a Dub Dub. Now Dan Aiden can be an artist in the tub!

 Santa brought Aidie a cleaning set. Now she can use a broom that is her size instead of my overly huge one. lol.

 Awesomely sweet Christmas present from my hubby and little girl. A memory book of my best gift ever, AIDIE!

 This was Aidie's gift to Mommy and Daddy. She was so proud of it. She wanted to take it everywhere. We FINALLY got to put it on the tree. *tears*

 And thank you Auntie Ellen and Uncle Biruk for the awesome gifts. I think our favorite might be the little Mountee Hat. It is too darn adorable!!!

 We have a tradition of Christmas jammies in this family. Aidie wanted to wear her's around her neck, but it was okay if her baby wanted to wear her nightgown already... so she did!

 Anyone for a little Hockey for Beginners?


Merry Christmas #2
Christmas Eve with the Kings. We opened a couple of superly awesome Christmas Eve appropriate book gifts: Olivia helps with Christmas (we LOVE the Olivia series by Ian Falconer!!!) and a classic, The Night Before Christmas- Illustrated by Jan Brett (best Illustrator ever!).

Merry Christmas #3
Christmas Eve with the Wisleys
Since we were staying the night we were busy folks. We opened some gifts, had some appetizer dinner, watched some football and of course (after Aidie went to bed) had a few drinks and stayed up way too late. Needless to say, we were all exhausted by the time morning rolled around. Thank goodness Santa did all the morning preparations ;-)

 Little Edith Anne Aidie in her favorite rocking chair.

 I'm really peddling Mama! Well, kinda. I'm working on it. Give me a break!

 Wisley family pictures. The time when Kathy and I say, okay this will only take a second and be totally worth it in the future and the men say "Is this over yet?"

Santa Clause is coming to town!

We have been so busy with all the upcoming festivities that I've hardly had a minute to document. However, I did finally manage to pull out the camera and capture a few absolutely adorable moments (with more to come!)

Auntie Ellen and Uncle Biruk sent a Christmas package and Aiden was very upset that she could not rip open all the presents immediately. It's taken about a week (presents under the tree are miraculously still in tact) but she is finally understanding that she has to leave the presents wrapped until Santa comes.


To help distract her a little, we started making some Christmas cookies for Santa. We have to make several since he stops at three houses just for her. It would be rude to only leave a plate at one house after all ;-) So we have baked cookies and will be icing them after nap time. So fun. I found some great little cookie cuter (plastic and rubber) at dollar tree that are just her size. She has been having a lot of fun! I will definitely post pictures of the icing escapade!


We look just a little drunk on cookie dough...


And here is little Miss Bookworm. She refused to pause in her reading to hold her Santa letter for a photo. Hoping I can get her to hold it on Santa's lap tomorrow! But it was pretty adorable and I think I'm going to frame it.We asked her what she wanted for Christmas and then I helped her write her letter (Ie. she held the crayon, I held her hand). It reads: Dear Santa, For Christmas, I would like a baby doll, a hat, a brother and to draw. Love, Aiden Wisley.
All her words. We did have to ask her what she meant when she said "boy". Dan and I kept thinking what on earth does that mean. Finally I asked to you want a brother? A boy for here at home? Aidie: "Buba?! Yea! Buba! Buba!" Too cute. Sorry to disappoint, Aidie, but no brother this year...


Also, Christmas cards. I love them!

Merry Beginnings

Aidie may be rather ill (flu with a dehydration watch) but she is still such a happy little camper. She has been having a great time over the past week (excluding all the diarrhea and vomiting) preparing for the holidays.
Starting off, my mom and Carlin went Aidie shopping on Tuesday and Aiden had a blast searching through the bags. My mom has the sweetest friends! What a giving person (plus, who doesn't like to shop for little girls!).The look on her face is so "Can I do this?" Asking permission while diving in. Such a girl.


"Hey, I'm reading the care instructions. Some great reading material here!"



Here she is trying on a new coat and boots. She is SO adorable. She really likes the snowpants!


We also got a chance to hang out with my cousin Jill and her boyfriend, Daniel the other night. Sadly, this was the beginning of Aidie's illness and she wasn't feeling all that hospitable. However, she did instantaneously fall in love with a baby doll they brought her for Christmas. That definitely helped. LOL. She has been carrying it around everywhere. When she goes potty, her baby goes potty. When she has a bath, baby has a bath. You get the picture...



And here are her mommying instincts coming out. What a sweet, caring child. After having lunch, throwing up, having a bath and going down to nap, I came down to find this. Apparently she had been diapering Moosie right before lunch. TOO CUTE!



And now for something that will melt your heart. A special clip of Aidie loving on a Santa doll decoration and singing and dancing to "Deck the Halls". Happy Holidays Everyone!

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I like to eat paint...

We tried out pudding paint the other day and she REALLY enjoyed herself. Especially after discovering how deliciously edible it was. "Yum Yum Mama!"


She is also pretty obsessed with shoes. All the time. Everywhere. Shoes. That song is popping into my head!!! What a girl! Love her!
We have been super busy around here. I haven't had hardly a free moment to sit down and blog, but here we go:
In a week I will be off for Christmas break. Christmas cards will be done and shipped tomorrow and I will be nearly done Christmas shopping. Yippee. Aidie is absolutely adorable. Every night, Dan and I put her down to sleep, walk out of her room and say "we have the sweetest little girl in the world". We are SUCH lucky parents. Aiden's FAVORITE Christmas carol is "Deck the Halls" (video to come). She loves to sing along with the "fa la la"s. Too Cute! She is also a great impersonator of Santa Clause. Such a cute "Ho ho ho". I think Old Saint Nick would be proud! She talks so much in full sentences now. Just earlier in the car she was blowing kisses and saying "that for Papaw!" Too sweet!!! I love this child. Videos to come soon...