Santa Claus and New Videos

We have been staying busy around here getting ready for Christmas and all.  It's quite different with a baby in the house and things have taken a little longer than usual.  The house is done but we haven't really started on the advent calendar like I had wanted.  I guess that's okay considering AR really isn't old enough for a lot of it anyways.  We did however get one done today and that was visit Santa!  I saw that he was going to be at our Chick-fil-A so I thought we'd give it a try rather than standing in a line at the mall.  I thought it might be a zoo at CFA but it wasn't and we actually walked in and right up to him.  She wasn't hesitate to go to him at all and seemed intrigued by his beard.

She's looking at her daddy here and was about mid smile when I took it.

 

The next picture is quite disgusting, but it has to be documented!  For those of you who have yet to enter parenthood, we promise it's all worth it!  ;)

Yes, that's what you think it is!  (Meredith, I hope you and Jack are ready for this!  haha!)

Here are a few other pictures since the last update:

Sitting in her portable high chair at Mr. Salsa!

 

Sleeping babies are absolutely the sweetest

 

She is playing with her "practice gift".  I thought it might be a good idea to give her a gift bag and fill it with toys so that she could practice pulling them out.  I heard Santa was putting her toys in bags this year to make it easier for her.

The latest videos:

I'd say we might have a crawler before too long.  She's starting to be braver about reaching to get things and figuring out how to use her arms to get her there.  This two videos show her progress.

Video #1

Video #2

We also have some major separation anxiety with mama. 

And my favorite - laughing at daddy!