December happenings....

In the spirit of trying to catch up to a Christmas post, here's some of what went on during the month of December....

This came in the mail. I really can't believe we are getting to this phase of life. She was showing interest in sitting on her cousin Emma's potty at Thanksgiving, so I decided to go ahead and get a potty so that she could get used to it. We haven't started training yet (and probably won't for a little while), but she does occasionally sit on it from time to time.  We talk about big girls going to the big girl potty and read books about using the potty, so I'm thinking that one day soon, she'll want to try....but I'm totally not pushing it!

I found her red-handed digging into some Christmas cookies before breakfast one morning....

 We celebrated Grandmommy's and Papi's birthdays the first weekend in December, after hearing them perform with their church's beautiful Christmas concert.

My sweet friend from college, Melissa, and her daughter Anne Charlotte came from Birmingham and stayed with us the first week of December while her husband, Joe, was at a conference in Dallas! It was so much fun to get to spend a week together, hanging out, letting our girls play together, getting to catch up! 

Lucy did such a great job playing with Anne Charlotte- gives me hope for little sister on the way!

Such a sweet girl with the most beautiful blue eyes you've ever seen! 

We took the girls on a walk in our neighborhood and saw horses, chickens and sheep. So fun!

The endocrine clinic Christmas dinner was at Buca de Beppo, and here is Dr. Oden, our obesity clinic's medical director, standing with quite the appropriate picture. :) I love my co-workers!

More to come, including Christmas pics!

Oh, Christmas Tree...

 In keeping with Christmas tradition, we went to Walls Family Farm with our friends, the Treadaways, to cut down Christmas trees a couple of weekends ago. 

Not gonna lie- it was about 85 degrees that day, and it wasn't quite the same with it not being freezing cold while chopping your tree down, but we made it work. It was great for the kiddos, though!

Our first stop was the donut store for a nutritious breakfast. Lucy quite enjoyed licking the icing off the donut and that was about it.....

Then we packed both families into the Treadaway's swagger-wagon- Lucy is still back-wards facing in our car, so it was a fun treat to be forward-facing. Parker and Callie did a fantastic job of keeping her entertained as well!

The newest Treadaway, cute little Tucker, even got to go and did a great job!

We arrived at the farm and piled on to the hay ride that took us out to the tree farm. Such a fun part of the day! 

We found the perfect tree and Lucy helped Daddy cut it down

Some prefer to carry their tree this way.... 

And others drag theirs...

Here she is, all lit up! FYI, the star on top is crooked on purpose- there was no other way around it. Kind of humorous, like a Charlie Brown tree or something!