Hello!

For the past few days Anna has been waking up at 5 or 5:30 AM! We've already watched Dora's Christmas, Diego's Christmas and now she's vacuuming the house with her pretend vacuum. I wish I had energy like she does!! Anna definitely seems more aware of Christmas this year. Jason took her for a walk yesterday evening and she was in awe of the Christmas lights. She also recognizes Santa now, from watching Dora and Diego in the wee hours of the morning I'm sure =).


Benji is pulling himself up all around the house and he is so proud! He crawls over to me, pulls himself up on my leg, lets go and gives me the proudest grin! He is fascinated with our washing machine. As soon as I started loading it yesterday he crawled over and got ready. He stood there for about 20 minutes watching the clothes while I made dinner. It's a great babysitter =).

My mom and I were surprised at how busy our little Etsy shop got over the past couple of weeks. We had no idea that traffic would pick up so fast during the holidays since this is our first year doing it. I don't have a lot in the shop right now because Anna and Ben have been keeping me on my toes but my mom sold a ton of children's aprons. She completely sold out of the fabric she bought which had to have been close to 30 yards! My ladybug clippies paired with one of her aprons were popular -- who would have known! I had no idea I'd enjoy crafty stuff so much but it really is fun =).

I think the aprons sold so well because of the terrific model =).

My latest project: doll diapers! These are super easy to make and they stay on the dolls unlike the ones you buy in the store with the sticky tabs.