Santa Baby

Someone just couldn't wait until Christmas . . . and by "someone," I mean Brady; if you think grandmas are bad about playing dress up with babies, you should see this daddy. When we were shopping for the baby before she was born I had to restrain him from buying her Halloween costumes that were on display, reminding him that she wasn't coming until after Halloween. He was pretty insistent that she should have a Santa suit for her first Christmas, though. I have to admit, it was a good idea. Last Sunday we tried the outfit on her because we were worried it might not fit by Christmas. Turns out she had a little room to grow still, so she may be reprising the outfit this Friday. Here are the results of our photo shoot that night. (Oh, and I should also mention here that this is your Christmas card from us for anyone who is reading it.)

Here we have pre-sneezing Santa.


Cranky Santa is brokering a position on the "naughty" list.

I call this "Santa's Ennui"--I'm sorry, are we boring you, Santa?

"Santa in Repose."

Ah--daring!

"Beauty Sleep"--cuteness can be quite fatiguing.

And, finally, the money shot. A contented Santa.

Here are some shots of a few other things Ellie has been doing lately.

Lots of sleeping (as long as I'm not sleeping she seems to do this just fine--she is getting pretty good at sleeping at night now, though).

Staring at the ceiling fan--one of her very favorite activities.

And hiccuping. She does this A LOT. This video is a bit long--more than a full minute of hiccups; I am experimenting with compressing video files, so I wanted to see if this would work and still upload in a reasonable amount of time. It's fine if you don't watch the whole thing. I think my mom will replay it plenty of times anyway.