Merry Christmas!!!!!!

Things have been going well for us! We spent our Thanksgiving in Topeka, Kathleen was able to bring her family up and James was there too! It was the first time Jada saw her Cousins, unfortunately they spent most of their time ignoring each other :/ Oh well, Hopefully that will change the next time they see one another. Jada is full speed ahead in life. She isn't walking yet, unless she's distracted with a toy in each hand, but then she realizes her "mistake" and she get down and crawl. She ate her first full jar of baby food yesterday- it was pears, so we're hoping she'll start eating those again... we'll see. She has so much personality! I was putting up our very few Christmas decorations and she wanted to play with them. Well seeing as I didn't want them broken, I moved them to a higher shelf, Jada got up on the empty box that held the decorations and tried using that as a stool!!!! Can you believe that?! She's only 10 months old!

I left her with Daniel while I went and did a little bit of grocery shopping and when I came back she had colored all over her legs with a pink marker! I was a dumb-dumb and didn't take pictures :( I can't keep up with her! she moves from one mess to another, and while i clean those up she already has 3 more messes for me to clean up! My house is a perpetual mess.... and yet when she naps all I wanna do is rest, but then the mess never gets cleaned up! I've been trying to make my own bread, something I have yet to perfect, and none of the loaves have tasted bad, but something about them is really heavy. Daniel's been a sport and eating them like there's no tomorrow, probably because once it's gone he doesn't have to pretend to like it until the next loaf ;) But Jada, the everlasting critic, won't even touch it!!! When I get some in her mouth, she promptly spits it out!!! and if I set some on her tray she either throws it on the floor or on her seat below the tray where I don't see it until I get her out :/

Daniel is in the middle of finals. We're luckier than the chiropractic students because of how much time Daniel gets off in comparison to them. Dec. 11th is his last day of class then he has a month off!!! Over a month actually, he doesn't start the next semester until Jan. 20th- Jada's first birthday! This year has gone by so fast!! And I have yet to wish that Jada were still a tiny baby (every one told me I would miss that, but I don't), I'm OK with the hours of Jada entertaining herself :) Not to mention she's finally sleeping through the night! It only took her 9 months to do it, but once she decided to, well she sleeps any where from 12 to 15 hours every night!!! It's bliss!

Jada dances now! It started on a Sunday and Daniel was just making noises, not any thing resembling a song, just noises and she started to dance!!! well more like bobbing up and down :) since then she'll dance to the clicking of the dishwasher! But her favorite is Weezer!!!!!! That's my girl!!!!