Things December Likes To Do

December likes to pick up all of her stuffed animals and dolls at once

...and then put them into the stroller and walk them around (sorry both of these pictures were blurry. Boy, I do that an awful lot these days -- take blurry pictures, I mean. Maybe I should go to the doctor and get this epilepsy of mine checked out)

She likes to hang out with Mommy

and watch Baby Einstein with Daddy

She really likes Baby Einstein

She likes to try to take pictures with her crazy mother who (if you couldn't tell) just discovered that Mommy can take pictures of herself and December while making December smile

She likes to empty out all of Mommy's bags and pretend they're purses, carrying them on her shoulders

December, Up Close

Good news! Brad passed his Bible Knowledge test! Yay, he doesn't have to take the re-test OR the class! Good for him. We don't know what his actual score was, though. He's going to try to find that out today. December and I have been doing well...although I think December sometimes gets bored just here with Mommy. There's only a limited numer of things for her to do in here -- play on the piano, read books, play with toys, color with markers, unload the kitchen cupboards, etc. After that's all been done, she gets antsy. So lately we've been playing alot with baby Samuel (whose first birthday is a couple of weeks away). She went swimming with him yesterday, along with baby Calvin (who's four months old). Last night she went and played outside with Simeon, Gabriel, and Naomi (another seminary family's three young kids)...or rather, she mostly just watched them play around. All of their activity amuses her, so she usually just likes to stand and watch. It's nice for her to have so many kids right here to play with!

Reading Time

I'm teaching December to say "Cheeeeeese" when I take a picture of her. This is what she's saying here...but usually, she just does a quick "cheese" and then runs over to the camera to look at the picture that was just taken.

December is picking out a book for Mommy to read

Here we are, reading

Then December likes to read to herself, too. She likes to find things in the book that she recognizes, like she'll say "meow" for any kitties she finds, "oof! oof!" for a dog, "peep! peep!" for birds, "moo" for anything that is large and has four legs, and that sort of thing

The Teacher Store

Here is what December's room looks like now! I added the Bible verse on Saturday, which is something I wanted to have in her room in our old house. We went to a teacher's store last week to get the bulletin board letters...and I discovered that I LOVE that store! Neither December and I wanted to leave the store, actually. We had to take December out kicking and screaming (quite literally), and I was only barely self-controlled enough not to do the same. December liked it because they sold all kinds of teacher trinkets there, like sparkly pencils, fun erasers, balls of all sorts of shapes and sizes, etc. I liked it because it was all so teacher-y! I guess I still must want to be an elementary school teacher one day. I loved all the books and colors and games for kids. Even choosing the letters for December's Bible verse was great fun! If I had to get a job, I'd want to work there. Unfortunately, there's not much need to go back there ever, so December and I will have to leave our favorite store alone for the time being, hehee.