Let's see....where did I last end this blog?!

Sorry everyone, I'm a bit behind on the blog! Here's a quick recap of the Thanksgiving weekend....

we woke up to snow on the ground after Thanksgiving Day! It's gone by now, though, so that's nice!

We did a little Black Friday shopping in the morning but it was for "manly things," i.e. snow pants, a cargo carrier that fits in the truck hitch, etc. Later in the afternoon, we put up our Christmas decorations and Liv helped hang some ornaments. Olivia loves the nativity scene and will always leave her baby doll bottles next to Mary and Baby Jesus!



Olivia's clump of ornaments

 The rest of the weekend passed quickly by and before I knew it, I was heading to the airport for a quick trip to Philadelphia.

I was back by Wednesday morning of this week and by that time, Liv had pretty much mastered the potty! She is doing exceptionally well and every day we're shocked by how great she's doing.  Thanksgiving morning was the start of her going on the potty and by the following Thursday, she mastered peeing and was pooping on the potty, too! She went #2 at school and later that night, she went at our house again! She had 1 accident during her nap on Friday but so far, so good!!!

We knew we needed to reward her for learning so quickly and doing so well consistently. We're not sure how it came up but before Duane could ask her what kind of toy she wanted, she told him she wanted a horse!! HA!! After swim lessons this morning, we made a stop at Target. We spent quite some time in the toy aisle and she finally decided on a Disney princess and matching dress for herself!

Liv took a nap and Duane and I took turns running errands. I had been hearing about the Holidazzle Parade which takes place in Minneapolis so we went downtown tonight for some holiday fun. We had a quick dinner at FireLake Grill and then tried our best to find a place to stand for the parade. Thankfully, Duane is tall and strong so Liv had a good view. I saw very little of the parade and tried my best to take a couple pictures. She enjoyed it and was looking for more after it ended. You'll notice she didn't wear a coat and that's because it was 50* tonight when we were downtown!

Cinderella went with us but we didn't have enough hands so she ended up in Duane's pocket

waving to Santa

It's so hard to believe we're into December, isn't it?! I'll be heading to Boston later this week so it'll be Duane and Liv at home to fend for themselves. I better get some laundry done, then, right?