Q: What do you want for Christmas? A: Everything

That pretty much sums up Maddie's view on Christmas. This is the first year she's really grasped what Christmas is (on the most basic level: Santa - Presents - Awesome) and she is SUPER excited. You might think that this can cause all sorts of problems because since she want's everything, she expects to get everything but actually it's quite the opposite. Before Christmas, when we went into a store and she asked:

"Can I have that?" we would usually have to say "Sorry, but not this time."

Now when she asks we can say "Ooohhh, that's cool, let's put it on your Christmas list."

See the difference? Now Santa is the bad guy, not us. I love Christmas.

But in all seriousness (kinda), Christmas is awesome. Maddie has been so fun. She's totally into the lights / music / movies...

Getting pumped for Christmas!

We got our tree the other night and had a campout in the living room around it. We put Maddie to bed at 8pm but of course she couldn't fall asleep since the Christmas lights were on, she's in her sleeping bag and the kitty keeps jumping on her. When we lay down at 10ish she's still up and fidgety so we give her the usual warnings about going to bed and taking away a stuffed animal and all that. She calms down a bit but still is rustling around and keeping us up. Finally, I reach out and hold her hand and boom, she's asleep two minutes later with a kung fu death grip on my finger. Cutest thing ever.

As for Piper, she's doing great. She's healthy and cute and awesome and sleeps well and doesn't explode her diaper often and is smily and giggly and happy and chubby and smelly and cuddly and all other good things. We had a check up awhile ago and she's in the 50% for most stats (75% for premies), which leads us to believe that there are no complications with her early arrival.

Piper is starting to interact much more which is cool. She smiles all the time and is starting to giggle which is adorable. She still sleeps through the night which has been such a blessing. Maddie gets along with her really well and Piper adores her big sister.

First Solid Food - Yummy!

Other than that, things are pretty sticking good at the Casa de Johnson. We've been enjoying the fall by doing the zoo trips, seeing family and the occasional date night. Maddie has her first Christmas Recital next week which I expect to be crazy stupid cute. I'll try to get the video up.

That's all for now. Peace. Out.