SOO Much to Update From Playing to Turkey Day

Well-- It's been awhile since I've done a proper post and my camera is filling up with all kinds of new adventures with Miley!!

Let's start off from the beginning here-- Miley has gotten so good at playing and using her imagination! It's fun to watch her! We have a very large entertainment center upstairs and the bottome three cubby holes are all Miley's cubby holes. One holds her music table another holds her percussion set and the last holds her toy box- which has wheels so she can easily pull it out when she wants to go into Miley's World, we call it. She sits in there and will bring toys in there and plays and thinks she is so funny when she hangs out in there! It's so cute!!

Miley's hair is really starting to grow in- but it still isn't quite long enough to really put anything in it. We did buy some cute little clippies to pull the front back a little bit. It's really cute, until it falls out! :)


And just some cute pictures of Miley hanging out at home, one in her diaper and the other in her cute Christmas PJ's. :)


My parents still have their bouncy seat out at their house as Miley thinks it's fun to turn on the music and sometimes puts her baby or teddy bear in there. Well, apparently on this day she felt like being a little baby again and crawled right in there and sat down like this! Goofy Girl!!


She has also learned how to dig in my cupboards. One evening I was chopping up some veggies at the counter and she was behind me pulling out all of my pots and pans and then I turned around because it got really quiet and she was GONE! I quickly dropped what I was doing to go and find her and here she was-- all the way in the back of the cupboard trying to reach for the last lid that was way back in there! Keep in mind- our cupboards are still a 1970's design so they are pretty deep! I laughed so hard once I finally found her! And we have now moved our tupperware into a lower cabinet so she can now dig in those too. She sure has a hay day sometimes!




Now on to Turkey Day. We had a wonderful time- We had our first celebration on that Sunday at Taylor's Grandparent's house. Taylor unfortunately had Master's School so he was unable to attend, but me and Miley made it and we had a yummy meal and she had fun playing with her cousins. Their house has a step down living room and the step is the perfect height for Miley to sit at. She thought she was pretty fancy sitting there.

And here are the Pagel grandkids with Great Grandma and Grandpa

And all of the Great Grandkids with them

Thursday we went to my Aunt Michelle's and Uncle Robby's house with my family and we played games, had yummy food, and Miley had fun playing with her other cousins. We got a nice photo and Dylan and Danielle with Miley.

So, Miley's first Thanksgiving was perfect! And that was just the start to our weekend!!

Saturday we went to Hampton Hills Tree Farm to continue on mine and Taylor's tradition of cutting down our own tree. We found our perfect little Fraser Fir and Miley LOVED helping pick it out. She thought it was so funny that Daddy was cutting it down and was just in awe of all the activity that was going on there. When I put her down to check out what Daddy was doing she just stood there forever, and as soon as the tree fell down, she sat down. It was pretty funny!




On our way home she fell asleep and I didn't want to ruin her nap so we pulled in the driveway and I sat in the car with her as Taylor put up the outdoor lights- that is my favorite part of decorating- is seeing the outdoor lights up! We might be adding a little more to our display this weekend, if its not too terribly cold.

Once Miley woke up from her nap she was amazed with the lights outside- she kept pointing at them and saying Wow!!! So then it was time to decorate inside and put up the tree. When we first brought the tree in Miley was afraid of it but once we got the lights and ornaments on it she warmed up to it. She still doesn't really want to touch it or go near it, but just enjoys looking at it, which is good for us! We thought we were going to have to gate off the tree to keep her out of it. And that just wouldn't have been as pretty! :)


Here is Miley's First Christmas Ornament from her Grandma and Grandpa Pagel. I love this picture!

Sunday morning it was Taylor's turn to put her down for a nap and once she fell asleep this is where he laid her! She slept here for a good half hour or more. It was SOO cute!!!

Then, when she woke up from her nap it had snowed so we went outside to play in the snow for her first time! It was quite the task getting her all dressed up because she doesn't understand when you tell her if we get all of these winter clothes on we get to play in the snow, but as soon as we got outside she was full of smiles and laughs. We even tried to have her make a Snow Angel- she thought that was very funny!!



And the last photo I have here is Miley enjoying one of Nana's Fat White Sugar Cookies- I told her if she ate a good supper then she could have a cookie. The little stinker knows where the bag of cookies is and she ate her supper and pointed at the bag and then devoured the whole thing! I mean, what can ya do, the girl loves her sweets!!!

Lately, there have been so many firsts for Miley and we are loving every minute of it!! I can't wait for Christmas, it not only is my FAVORITE holiday ever but now that we have our little family I look forward to starting some of our own family traditions during the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!!