We had an early morning grocery pick at Walmart today, so instead of cooking at home, we got some biscuits from McDonald’s. Emerson clearly dressed herself today, complete with rain boots and rain jacket, once we realized it was raining outside.

Emerson has loved saying the prayer for us at meal times lately, and has gotten pretty good at it. It used to be just “thank you Jesus for our food and our family.” But now, she’s started naming off all the family members she can think of, sometimes even naming people twice, and today, she added in Ms. Q! Girlfriend ate half of her McGriddle for breakfast, and then finished off the second half for her lunch.

After a rocky grocery pick-up situation, we finally made it back home, got the stuff put away (realized we were missing two things, about $10 worth, so I’ll be trying to get that resolved somehow), lazed around for an hour or so, and then did a bunch more random chores around the house (of which I took no photos). Jeff and the boys ran out for some more errands (back to Best Buy, because they didn’t actually go in yesterday because of a long line), and I got Emmie down for her nap.

Emmie slept for about an hour and half, and then Jeff and the boys got home, and Nana came over. And then we got busy on Christmas decorations! We got all the bins and tubs and boxes down from the closet, and got busy working on the tree. The boys put it together, Nana and I added a short strand of lights where some of them blew last year, then we added on the super thick yarn like last year. Then all of us just went to town adding on the ornaments, and Jeff added the star, and we got the whole thing done really quickly! It may be a little heavy on the ornaments down low (per the tiny toddler) and in some random places (per some slightly decorating-challenged teen boys), but it looks pretty good!

 

 

 

Look at this little sweet heart up on her tippy toes to help decorate the tree. Sooo precious.

Jeff was also very proud of himself, for getting the first present “wrapped” and under the tree, for ME! At first, he put it in this horribly ugly yellow & purple gift bag he found in my stash, and I had to tell him, “Although I am very touched at the thought and the gesture, aesthetically, I can not put that bag under my tree!” So Nana helped him find a cute white and gold box instead, which looks much nicer 😉

Emmie opted to take an early bath tonight, in order to put on some clean, cozy, Christmas jammies. These are some hand-me-downs, which she loved of course, because of the unicorns!

She had some cheese noodles for dinner, and Jeff made me a grilled cheese, and the boys both warmed up their own chicken & rice leftovers from Nana’s last night. (I was wayyy too tired and blah to handle dinner for everyone.) And since she ate a good dinner, she also got to have some “chocolate coffee” (which is what she calls hot chocolate), while we read Christmas books by the Christmas tree!

I love this sweet, excited smile…

And I love this goofy little face too!

She was a bit difficult to get down for bed tonight, and it took both Jeff and I taking turns rocking and coaxing and singing and extra hugs, before she was finally ready to give in and just lay down to sleep.

I may or may not have tried to rearrange a few of the ornaments in order to even them out a bit, and it may still need a bit more, but for now, she’s looking pretty!

Now I think we need to queue up a Christmas movie, to keep up the holiday spirit!