Christmas Eve Panda

Mercy's first Christmas Eve was exciting.  After a quaint dinner including Reed's Spiced Cider (amazing!) we went to our Christmas Eve service where Mercy had a very vocal good time. How could she not with the open candle flames and all.  Then we came home and Mercy opened my presents for me and met her Panda rocking horse. Mainly she just wanted to eat all the wrapping paper. Merry Christmas Mercy!

Itty Kitties and Marching Bands

To begin with (or should I say to blog-in with), Mercy recently enjoyed her first parade, the Whittier Christmas Parade. I think she enjoyed dancing to the beat of the marching bands the most until she ran out of gas and fell asleep. 

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She has also begun using her first and only word consistently (other than her universal do-do word which apparently means everything). She is easily excited by the sight of our cat and yells any one of the following: kikky, ikky, itty, titty, kee, and sometimes kitty. What ever happened to fondness for your parents?

Mercy Laughing

Mercy loves to play peek-a-daddy.

Future Women's Disc Golf Champion

As you can see, Mercy has begun a strict training regimen for her future disc golf hall of fame career. You might say we share a taste for it (and the crowd groans).

In other news, Mercy has become very mobile with a combination of rolling, crawling, leapfrogging, and dragging or propelling herself around the room any way she desires. Sometimes she is even climbing up to her feet using my belly or the furniture. Time for me to crawl around the house myself and check for danger.

We had to switch the car seat and stroller since she couldn't fit in the original ones anymore. She sure enjoys the forward facing stroller more and makes lots of friends in the store that way. I'm looking forward to her walking but I am also missing her tiny infant days whenever I see a newborn. That's parenthood I guess.

Holiday Blogathon

Looks like I'm a blogcrastinator. Time for the four-day weekend blogathon.
I think I'll start with this vintage picture of Mercy from 2 months old. She has become a lot more camera friendly since then. Maybe she just didn't like the filter I was using.

Now this one has a bunch of Mercy's favorite things: Mom, being outside, and hamming it up for the camera, and coming home from a playdate with her boyfriend James (she likes older man-babies apparently).

Toothy

Someone has two little white chompers peeking through her bottom gums. Sara just noticed it last night. I guess the teething rings and everything else she has been drooling on have been working although we haven't noticed any fussing specific to teething yet.

Sweet Potato Surprise

Oh you may be laughing at me now but I have a sweet potato surprise brewing for you and it ain't so pleasant at the other end.

If you could see the back of Mercy's head you'd see that her hair is getting noticeably longer and thicker. It's hard to imagine her as a little girl with long hair, walking around and talking in sentences. I just get the feeling that those days will sneak up on us really fast.