Lights and First Steps

 

Vivian and I have been getting into the Christmas spirit over the past week, mostly in the form of decorating. On Sunday last week, we had a "soup potluck" at church and then spent the afternoon decorating inside. We had the traditional (artificial) poinsettias and Christmas tree, and I got to participate by changing a flat on Vivian's car, just in time to figure out that we don't have a jack.

At home, we put up our own artificial Christmas tree (borrowed from Vivian's mom and dad). We've had a real tree for the last couple of years, but we've learned that Hannah tends to eat pretty much anything she finds on the floor, so we opted for her not to have a diet of pine needles this season. I also made like Clark Griswold and put up some Christmas lights on the house for the very first time. We don't have an actual exterior plug on our house, but I found an outlet adapter for a light socket that worked just as well.

One last, exciting bit of news: Hannah has been moving quickly from crawling to toddling, and we captured the moment we're dubbing as her official first steps. As you can tell, she's quite capable now not only of walking but of hamming it up for the camera.