Ellen made pancake mixes in glass jars to give
as gifts this Christmas.
Here she is measuring a cup of flour.
Ellen and her daddy, along with her friend Joey and his daddy, visited a local bakery for a Gingerbread House Decorating Party. Lots of sugar consumed. Ellen's favorite: the rocks made of chocolate that she used to line the walkway around the side of her house. Here she is preparing to eat yet another...
Christmas Eve, after returning home from church, Ellen and Will opened one present each--Christmas pajamas--and then hung their stockings before going to bed!
Will seems very sad about his first PJ opening and stocking hanging...
...but he was quite excited the next morning by all the presents...
and perhaps even more excited by all the little bits of wrapping paper.
Ellen ripped open her presents in typical
almost-three-years-old fashion, while wearing her new pink
dress-up outift over her Christmas pajamas.
One of our favorite memories for Will's first Christmas:
the beginning of more rapid mobility.
Bye-bye army-style belly crawl, this traditional method is faster!
