Tree Time

On Sunday we went and got our Christmas Tree. Yay! We always go to the Boy Scout lot here in Davis b/c Adam was a boy scout and he always likes to support them. When Hannah heard her Daddy was a boy scout she said in a really grown up tone "Daddy I didn't know you were a boy scout, you never told me that before." It was very cute. Hannah did a great job letting us know which tree was her favorite:



Clearly she is a "tree hugger". :)

She also did a great job helping Adam carry the tree out of the lot:


We have to put our tree on a table this year so that Samantha "The Destructor" does not take it apart and eat every ornament on the tree. This created a lot of lifting of Hannah to get the tree decorated b/c of course she wanted to put on the star and ornaments up top.



While we decorated Samantha enjoyed pulling ornaments out of the box and chucking them across the room and crawling under the table. It was kind of crazy but it is done. That night Samantha also cut her finger on a decoration...although we didn't know it until we saw blood just about everywhere and finally traced it back to Samantha's little finger. We had to put a band aid on her finger, which she did NOT like! She did everything she could to pull that thing off:







Still workin' on it at dinner time:



Here is a great picture of both Hannah and Samantha. This smile that Samantha has on her face is a classic Hannah "cheesy" smile as we use to call it when Hannah was little. I guess they are related:



While eating dinner Hannah for some reason asked about how much milk she had left in her glass...well Adam being Adam decided to give her the full on explanation. He told her that she had about a ounce left and when Hannah asked what an ounce was he brought out a shot glass for her as an example. Well of course then Hannah really thought it would be a lot of fun to drink milk from a shot glass and she continued to do so throughout dinner. Here she is getting "drunk" off milk:







And finally Samantha has started walking with her "walker" or push car. For the longest time she just did this to push it around the house:



But then on Sunday she did this finally:


And then she started getting all crazy!


Although when she runs into something she hasn't figured out how to get herself turned around or backed away from the object, so she just stands there. Luckily Hannah helps her out and gets her going back on her way, only to about a few seconds later run into something again and get stuck. :)

Samantha is really trying to walk. Yesterday the Infant Room teachers said that she was free standing...which she does a lot these days, she has really good balance...and then she moved one foot forward and then stood there looking like she was thinking about if she should make the effort to move the other foot. She decided against it, apparently it was too much trouble, so she just sat down and started crawling...ah our lazy girl. At least she has finally started rolling over...only about 6 months late. :)