Christmas time is finally here!!! I absolutely LOVE this time of year, it just makes me giddy! Last weekend we started getting into the Christmas spirit around our house (NOT before Thanksgiving...that really bugs me). At school they started decorating and doing crafts with the kids. Here we're trying to get Korbyn's hand and footprints for a reindeer shirt, they turned out SO cute.
Last Sunday we went and got our Christmas tree. I think this is the earliest we've ever got one. Colton and I debated whether to just get a small tree and put it on the table for this year or brave a full sized one. Colton said that he didn't want a small tree so we got a normal one and crossed our fingers. The trees that we like to get are pre-cut and imported from North Carolina I think and the Christmas tree farm had just gotten their shipment in the night before so there were lots to choose from. And I guess they were all still packed tightly together because it was not near this big when we picked it out! When we put it in our living room we stood back and both agreed that it was way too big around for the room. So we had to put it in our dining/kitchen area. Which isn't a big deal, I've just never had a tree in the kitchen before!
Amazingly Korbyn has only touched the tree maybe three times. We watched her the very first time we put it up and she of course went straight to it and wanted to grab everything but we told her no and moved her away and she was fine with that. One other time she brought me an ornament off of the tree and I made her walk it back and helped her put it back on and she hasn't touched it since! Now...we all know Korbyn isn't that sweet ;) She'll occasionally make sure we're watching her and go up to the tree and have a very sly smile on her face and put her finger about an inch away from and ornament and look back at us and it's like she's saying "I'm not touching it hehe!" Lil' turd.
Saturday I drug Colton to the mall to go see Santa. We left our house around 2 p.m. and I told him either I need to put her down for a nap and not go today or stick her in the truck and let her sleep all the way to College Station, so we just decided to go. Wouldn't you know she talked ALL the way there and never closed her eyes once. We first had to go into Walmart to exchange a TV that we bought the day before and that took about an hour. She was good, but you could tell she was starting to get a little fussy. Across from Walmart was Tractor Supply and Colton needed to get something from there so I told him I would drop him off and Korbyn and I would circle the parking lot until she fell asleep...HA! No luck there, she was still wide awake and I even gave her some milk that I thought would surely do the trick. So we decided to take our chances and just head over to the mall. We pull into the mall parking lot about 5 and I'm not kidding you, the moment I put it in park she closes her eyes and is out! Colton said we should probably just sit here for about 20 minutes and let her get some sort of nap, I completely agreed. We walk in the mall to see Santa and he's not even there! Technically he was there but he wasn't going to back from break for another 45 minutes!!! So at this point we're all tired and a little frustrated, but we head over to the food court and grab a bite to eat and go get our picture taken.
This is Korbyn in line waiting to see him. She saw him from the side as he sat down in his chair and she just kept staring at him, she wasn't scared it was just like she couldn't figure him out.
This is Korbyn's picture with Santa. The poor thing has such a nervous smile on her face, it almost doesn't even look like her! I had a choice between this picture and the one the lady snapped about two seconds after this, which is Korbyn's mouth wide open screaming. I first chose the screaming one because it was SO hilarious, then changed my mind at the last second. But of course I was kicking myself all the way home because Colton said that the screaming picture would have made awesome Christmas cards, and then I wanted the other one! But this one is priceless :)
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