Stilson Family: December 2009

11 Months old

Elly is eleven months old now. The time has gone by so fast. She is walking alongthe furniture and getting in to everything. She loves that she can follow her brothers when they try to get away from her. It takes her a minute to get to them but she finds them. She is getting better about Mason tackling her. She doesn't cry as easy any more and she has learned how to defend herself. She now knows, thanks to her brothers, how to scratch, bite, hit and pull hair. All the things that I wanted her to learn. She is funny and has learned how to be as weird as her brothers. We sure love this kid.

I just don't think she could be any pretier. She is such a happy baby.

She loves dolls

Elly loves dolls. I really didn't think that this would happen this early. She is really funny to watch with them. She hugs them upside down most of the time though.

It is pretty cute to see her hold both of the dolls.

She was funny when we went Christmas shopping because I would show her all these toys that make noise and she didn't care. She didn't even want to play with it. When I came to the isle with the dolls on it she went crazy. She wanted to hold all of them. It was pretty funny. So I guess you can figure out what she is getting for Christmas.

Crazy about blankets

Elly is so funny about her blankets. She has to have a blanket in her hand so she can suck her thumb. It can't just be any blanket either. She has a few of her favorite ones. She can find them too, even if they are dirty and in the laundry. The other day I had gone down to start some laundry and when I came back this is where I found Elly. She had climbed in the basket to hold her blanket and suck her thumb. She is pretty funny.

December Activities

We started off the Christmas season with getting the house decorated and making cains for the boys to cut each day. I didn't know where else to hang it so it hung from the chandeler.

Next we put the lights up on the house. It was a good thing we did it when we did because it snowed two days later.

The next day we put the tree up and decorated it.

I tried to do something fun each day but we missed a few. We made some sugar cookies and other treats and got them to some of our neighbors. I ran out of time though and didn't get everything done that and all the treats to everyone that I wanted to so I am sorry about that.

Thanksgiving

At school Tyler made these things for Thanksgiving that he is wearing. He looked so cute that he wanted me to take his picture, four inside and four outside, that is what he told me.

After Tyler finished school we headed to my parents house for Thanksgiving. My sister's family came from Nebraska and my sister that lives by my parents were all there for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner we went to the church to play. The kids loved having the space to run around. While the kids entertained themselves the adults played lighting. It was pretty fun.

Elly loved that Tiffany brought this push toy for Leah to play with. Leah rode and Elly pushed. They switched around some, but this is what they did most of the time.

This is all the Grandkids that were with us on Thanksginving day. Both my brothers families were with their wifes family.

The next day the adults went to the gym and played volleyball and then some dodge ball. My younger brothers wer kind enough to watch the kids for us. After that we headed for the mountains to get some Christmas trees. I will have to say that I think ours turned out very pretty. The kids loved going and getting the tree, Elly doesn't look like she loved it here, but she was mad that she had to sit for a picture.

Here we are hauling the trees down the hill to the truck.

We all had a pretty good time other than Tiffany's kids. They did have fun until there feet got cold.

Elly loved being outside with us.

The next day Jay and I went out looking for some deer. We saw some good ones but couldn't get a good picture of one. This little one was right by the road.