Time to catch up!

So here it goes a little bit out of order but for the most part you should be caught up on our not so exciting life when your done!

Alida had a Cardiology appt Dec. 2, 2010 and the results are great. Her heart is showing no effects from her lung disease so far! Her heart looks Perfect the doctor said! So that is a true blessing. Most kiddos with Lung disease have some kind of pulmonary hypertension at some point in their life. The doctor seems to think Alida is not going to have that problem! So we are very pleased with that news!

After her appt. we dressed her up to go see Santa. I took some picture of her and the dogs too.

Alida LOVES her puppies!!!!! I decided since she was already dressed up to take some pics of her with the puppies. I think she had a great time but I'm not so sure about the dogs. She loves it anytime they sit next to her.



I think the picture says it all! She was terrified of Santa! But I think we might have got a good picture of her with him but you can plainly see the fear in her eyes!
One of Alida's new favorite things is to go "shopping" and carefully and neatly place the items on the kitchen table and around the dining room. It's fun to watch but it is getting a little tiring continuing to have to put groceries up every day over and over!


once in awhile she miss judges how tall the bottom shelf is and hits her head! Poor thing.
I make Christmas Mice every year instead of cookies! Okay I bake cookies too, but this is a tradition I've been doing for the last 5-6 years. Everyone seems to enjoy these cute little mice and this year was really fun because I had a helper! She made sure my hershey kisses and chocolate chips tasted just right!




This is Alida all bundled up ready to go outside and "help" us put up Christmas lights outside! It was one of the coldest days we have had in Georgia but it was a beautiful day. The sun was shining and it was really a lot of fun trying to figure out how to make our lights work on the new house!

Thanksgiving was great we relaxed and watched football while Aaron made his famous Grandpa's bread. We bought one of those "box dinners" so all I had to do was heat everything up! No cooking required! We usually put the Christmas Tree up Thanksgiving night but everyone was so tired and Alida ws still not feeling great we decided to wait. I did put some Christmas stuff up around the house!

Putting up the tree is one of my favorite things to do! I pulled everything from the attic and hauled it down stairs and was so excited because I thought for sure Alida would love it just as much as I do. Well I was wrong! Maybe she is just too young to understand yet but she had more fun taking the balls and decorations off than putting it on so I was a little disappointed until Aaron reminded me that she was only 20 months old! So maybe next year she will be able to "help" more!