Timber!

So it finally happened! Taylor pulled down the Christmas tree this morning...right on top of her! I was on the couch, enjoying a nice cup of hot chocolate. Taylor was watching Dora the Explorer. She saw a bird on the cartoon and then ran over to the tree to point out the bird ornaments. She then decided to take off one of "her" ornaments (she has a group of non-breakable ornaments that we let her take off of the tree to play with). I guess she pulled on it too hard because the next thing I knew the tree was laying on top of her!

I ran over to pull the tree off of her, and I couldn't help but laugh....I know, I'm horrible! She looked so funny....she was curled up in the fetal position clutching onto the ornament she had pulled off. Taylor was pretty startled. She really started crying after I pulled her from under the tree and she saw all of the scattered ornaments lying on the floor. As it is, she doesn't like it when things are out-of-place....so you can only imagine what was going through her head when she saw the tree on the ground and the ornaments all across the living room floor.

Surprisingly, Taylor didn't receive one scratch. The tree is still leaning up against the wall...something that is driving Taylor crazy. I guess this is another one of those stories that we'll be able to tell her about for years to come.

A pink room, a visit with Santa

Nana and Doodah came to visit us for several days....and we put them to work! They both helped out so much in painting Taylor's room. To most everyone's surprise (including ourselves), we painted her room pink! Taylor seems to like it. Her room is the first room that we've redone in the house and it looks great. Now the rest of the house really sticks out like a sore thumb!

Doodah also helped Tyson finish the backyard fence. It's so exciting to have that done. We appreciate all of the help from Poppa and Doodah in the construction of our fence. We can enjoy our privacy in our backyard, and the dogs can't escape anymore!

We all took a break from working on Saturday and drove into Wichita Falls for dinner and to see some Christmas lights. We walked around the "Electric Critters" light show located at a nature center. Taylor got to see lots of different lighted animals. Her favorite was a lit cow that kept mooing at her...she never could figure out where the mooing was coming from!

While there, we took Taylor to see Santa Claus. We weren't sure how she was going to react to Santa....but she didn't seem bothered by him at all! Next year maybe a completely different story!

Hard at work painting her room!

Taylor likes her new pink room.

Listening very closely to Santa Claus.

Taylor and Santa.

Sitting by some of the "Electric Critters" that we saw.

Oh Christmas Tree

We took Taylor to a Christmas tree farm located not too far from Henrietta to pick out our tree this year. Mimi and Poppa met up with us to find a tree for their house, too. We had a great time walking around the Christmas trees. Taylor seemed to enjoy it....she especially liked the baby trees.

Taylor really, really likes the Christmas tree with all of the lights and decorations on it. She has her own little section of the tree that's filled with ornaments just for her!

Taylor enjoyed exploring the Christmas tree farm.

Playing hide-and-seek in the trees.

Taylor wanted to show Poppa the perfect tree...

And here it is!

Tree inspecting with Mimi and Daddy.

Supervising Daddy cutting down our tree.

Making sure Poppa knows what he's doing!

Thanksgiving

We spent the Thanksgiving holidays in Houston with Nana and Doodah. Taylor had a great time playing at Nana's house....especially chasing her cats! We went to Taylor's great-Granny and Poppy's lake house for Thanksgiving Day. She spent the day playing with her cousins, picking up pecans and spending time outside. It was her first "real" Thanksgiving dinner....and she loved it! She ate just about everything that we gave her. She especially liked broccoli-rice-and-cheese casserole! So far it seems like Taylor takes after me when it comes to food.....we both like just about everything!

Ninja Taylor!

Taylor would gather all of the pecans that everyone picked up.

Collecting pecans from Aunt Donna and Nana.

Organizing pecans

Post-Thanksgiving dinner

Sitting cozy by the fire.

Taylor and I (not pictured!) are holding the ladder for Doodah...scary!!

Smelling Nana's flowers.