A First

Yesterday afternoon Ella Ann and I went to Megan's house to play and decorate a gingerbread house with her little boy, Luke. I should have done something like this with Ella Ann already, but it has completely slipped my mind. I was really excited for Ella Ann to do this and she was too even though she didn't know what she'd be doing! Of course both of them wanted to start eating the house itself as soon as they saw it, not to mention the bowls filled with candy in front of them! They both did a really good job and Megan and I had fun watching them do it and trying to keep them from eating it all, although Luke did manage to sneak in eating an entire Christmas tree! ha! Here are some pictures from our visit:

Waiting oh-so patiently for Megan to get the icing ready.

Megan trying to assemble the house before the kids attacked it!

Luke eating the tree!!!

Well since Luke decided to chow down of course Ella Ann had to start eating the candy!

So proud of the award-winning gingerbread house!

Ella Ann getting her baby fix with little Henry!

I also wanted to share some funny things that Ella Ann has said in the past few days:

We were walking into Trader Joe's the other day and they had big silver snowflakes dangling from the ceiling. Ella Ann started shouting, "LOOK AT ALL DOSE CORNFLAKES MOMMY!!!"

The three of us watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (the original version) a few nights ago and Ella Ann got pretty upset with the Grinch but afterwards starting talking herself into actually liking him by saying, "That Grinch! He's soooo nice! I loooooove the Grinch!" Spencer asked her if she wanted to watch it again and her immediate response, "No, no, no." This morning at breakfast I told her that Santa was going to come tomorrow night while she was sleeping. She got a really concerned look on her face and asked me, "Is he going to take all of our presents?" If you have seen the Grinch then you know he dresses up like Santa and takes all the presents from the Whos in Whoville. I then had to explain to her that Santa was going to bring her some presents not take them away!