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Silly Sunday and then on to Christmas

Dana and I had five days off in a row with the time off we took around Thanksgiving and including the weekend. It sure went by quickly! We had a wonderful time with family and friends celebrating Thanksgiving. We did take Brynn in to the doctor  yesterday as she has had a lingering cough and stuffy/running nose off and on. Turns out she has a sinus  infection. Today was a great day for lying low around home, catching up on rest, playing and being silly....which is exactly what we were up to here.



Excuse the peekaboo underwears.




Papa Kim cut out some ornaments and gave them to Brynn with a paint set as a gift last year. We had put them away with the Christmas stuff and right in the middle of getting the tree out, Brynn had to stop and paint all the ornaments. :-)






We've never had a live tree...before this year! Brynn wanted to be our real Christmas tree...even though it was one that came in a box apparently.




She's always telling us "how about you...." say this or do that to play along with her scenarios. We were supposed to tell her (as the tree) what to do. Here she was 'shining bright.' 

Be green!
 

She wanted lay out all the ornaments she painted for Santa because she thought he'd like them.


"Going up the elevator" to put the angel on top.


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theweckerlys said…
Aw, cute! Fun memories.

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