It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

December is  BY FAR the BEST month out of the entire year.
Why?
1. Christmas (duh)
2. My birthday
3. A break between semesters for Adam
4. Snow (I do like snow, but I just don't like it to stick around until April...)
See why I think it is so awesome?
Well anyways, I've done a few things around here to get in the Christmas spirit.

I already have a Christmas wreath, but because we have a storm door in front of the main door my current wreath was too fat and wouldn't fit :(
SOO I saw this really cute argyle christmas wreath that I wanted to duplicate. (YES another craft! What is happening to me?)
I am pretty happy about how it turned out!

Then, we obviously decorated our tree. I didn't take a picture of the full tree, but I was just playing around with the light bokeh in these photos.

Last night I made some really cute and yummy candy cane kiss cookies I found HERE. They are really easy and would be perfect for neighbor gifts or to bring to a christmas party for the holiday season!

Someone couldn't keep her fingers off them.

Or my table decorations.

She is even tall enough to reach up to the counter and grab things. She came waltzing into the family room twice last night with a fresh baked cookie in hand.
She has been such a little trouble-maker these days. She came into the kitchen one day while I was making lunch looking like this..

I frantically started looking for an open marker, but then saw an open tube of mascara on the floor. I just started laughing when I realized she knew the mascara was supposed to go on her eyes. I'm just glad she didn't poke herself with it.

And speaking of her getting tall, she had her 18 month Dr appointment this week. She KNOWS bad things happen there. She started whimpering when we first walked in. She is usually very friendly to anyone, but she wasn't about to warm up to the doctor or the nurses. Here is how she is measuring up:

Height: 32.5" (93%) 

I have  feeling she is going to be taller than me.

Weight: 21.2 lbs (10%)

Luckily, she doesn't have to go back in again until she is 2!

Tonight Adam and I get to go to his work Christmas party just the two of us. We don't get opportunities to go out without Lydia very often (even going somewhere with just the 3 of us lately is rare because of how busy Adam has been). Thanks Daniele and Steve for coming up to watch Lydia for us :)