Kyle took a couple of days off work for us to kick start the Christmas season with our baby girl! What a blessing to have time for just the three of us as we celebrate our first Christmas together. Hopefully this was the start of a new Christmas tradition.
December 6th was an especially sentimental day, as it was the anniversary of the day we first heard about Willow and saw an email with her tiny, blurry photo. What an incredible memory with God's handprint all over it!
We got coffee and a Christmas tree one evening, as is our tradition.
Willow was very excited to paint at a pottery place. She loved making wreath plates for her grandparents. She was so careful! We planned on making three plates, but when she started getting tired of painting handprints we just let her paint a reindeer for us.
She's looking at the frosty sign here...
Saying hello to the fish! Little did she know she would be getting one for Christmas. :)
We were all amazed by the beautiful lobby. Willow was especially delighted by the loud fountain behind us here...
Willow pointed to all of the snowflakes that led us to the exhibit.
Brrrr! The jacket sleeves were super long on her. She did NOT want to go down a slide made of ice all by herself, so a few quick tears were shed. I don't blame her!!
At the very end, they have a beautiful nativity scene (that I didn't get in this picture unfortunately). Willow was saying 'Cold!'
We went to Northpark mall to see their train exhibit and also Santa! When we realized at 11:00am that we wouldn't see Santa until 5:30pm, we gave up on that part of the day. The trains were very cool, but Willow's favorite thing had to be the turtles in a pond (below) in the middle of the mall.
The miniature merry-go-round was appreciated by our girl!
Because it was in the middle of the school day, we heard a band playing and then later a choir singing! Willow quietly 'sang' along with the choir; it was so cute.
Home again! We all love the feeling of pulling into our driveway. Kyle did a great job of putting up lights; we helped very little!
Sensory play is the best! Willow always asks for sand or rice. Lately we've been burying our hands a lot!
Willow and Mama visited Nash farm when Daddy had to go back to work. She loved seeing the chickens most of all.
Finally, we took Willow to Aggieland for a weekend. We went when there was no game to just introduce her to the beauty of our second home!
It was a beautiful day to go to Wolf Pen Creek to see my cousin's sweet kids dance. We went to many concerts here in our day!
Willow would watch the dancers and would try to emulate them!
Fun with Uncle Kade and Michelle!
My cousins kids are so sweet...
Photography by Willow. Research park holds precious memories of falling in love for Kyle and me.
This memory right here is now my new favorite! We watched the many ducks fly over to the water near us as they wanted to be fed, and their landing on the water was really neat.
Our tour of campus occurred during naptime, a sacred time!
Our second post office visit together was more successful than our first, because I had this handy sucker!
This rice is red and smells like cinnamon!
Here we have the first tooth that we've actually seen her cut! What a privilege, as odd as it sounds!
Our local library is smart...
So proud of Aunt Kenda, the nurse!
Childhood friends...
Reading!
Pumped that the dogs woke her up!
Painting trees...
