Caught in the act

Proud Papa

For months Alan has been telling me that we should get a new TV. I thought it was rather ridiculous because we don't really watch that much TV and all the ones Alan wanted came with a four digit price tag. But Alan finally convinced me and we found one with a price more to my liking... Free. They were cleaning out offices at Alan's work and found a 50" flat screen plasma TV hiding in some attic, and offered it to Alan. We did have to buy a new entertainment center because the TV is so massive it wouldn't fit in our old one, but the cost was minimal. Alan has spent all morning playing with it and getting everything set up. I'm glad he enjoys his new toy so much.

My little helper

Eight Months

Eight months old today!

This is Alan writing because Sarah is making me finish this while she tries to get Elsie to go to bed... it's about 10:30pm and she just wants to snuggle and isn't too happy about being put in her bed...

Anyways, Elsie has really become quite the talker. She's started using actual syllables rather than just yelling "aaah" in different pitches and for different lengths of time. My favorite is that the sound she now says quite often is "da"... which means she's regularly saying "dada dada dada". Sarah tries to get her to say "mama", but now it's just become a game where Sarah says "mama" and Elsie says "dada" - repeated over and over. Sarah keeps telling me that it's just a new sound and doesn't count as a word because she doesn't know that's what she's saying - I think Elsie just really loves her dada :-)

O Christmas Tree

We got our very first Christmas tree this year! We weren't sure if we were going to get one this year, but we went to the store anyway to look at them. After a lot of debating, we finally picked out this little 3 foot tree. We grabbed some little ornaments and a tree topper and headed to the check out. As it the tree rang up, it was 60% off the original price! Apparently they were on sale, but we just missed the sign. I'm glad we have our little tree, it makes our tiny apartment just that much more festive.

I've finally accepted it...

...Alan is a much better at wrapping gifts than I am.