Depictions of December

December 3
Leila was watching me curl my hair while I was getting ready for Jason's team Christmas party and she kept saying, "Momma, you so pretty.  Like a ballerina!"  Not sure why ballerinas are her standard for beauty, but I'll take it!  When I finished I decided to do her hair too and she actually cooperated.  It was a mini-miracle!

December 13
With Ellie still being on monitors and oxygen, we don't get out of the house much these days.  Plus Ellie requires a lot of attention and I'm working part time from home, so I'm always trying to come up with something to entertain Leila.  Today it was coloring on random boxes and taking selfies.

December 21
We got to go see a pretty incredible miniature Christmas village tonight.  The father of a lady in my home ward has put together an entire village of miniatures that takes up an entire room.  He plays a recording of a poem that highlights different aspects of the village and opens up his home for friends and neighbors to come and get in the Christmas spirit.  Leila LOVED it!  It was truly magical watching her face light up as she soaked it all in.  I couldn't even get her to turn around long enough to snap a picture.

December 22
For the times mommy can't come up with new ideas to entertain her, Leila's pretty good at entertaining herself.  Here she is hiding in her pirate's treasure chest.

Then when Daddy came home that night, he decided to amp up the pirate fun:

December 28
One of Jason's Christmas presents was the new Super Smash Bros. that let's up to 8 people play at once.  So of course we brought our Wii U over to Mom's so that we could all play.

And it didn't take long before Leila decided she wanted in on the fun too!