Lizzie Sue, jumping back to the future, one day you will brush your teeth and then drink some orange juice. That disgusting taste in your mouth, is exactly how Mommy and Daddy felt after our Christmas card photo-shoot experience at Sears. Daddy will save everyone the ugly details, and instead share a few choice words: overbooked, disorganized, understaffed, disorganized, apathetic, disorganized, not adequately trained staffers and disorderly disorganized. They did have one thing going for them...they were really good at being disorganized!!! All issues aside, we waited a long time and Lizzie Sue did a great job of waiting and waiting and waiting in her pretty christmas dress. Eventually we got some great photos a made a Christmas card. Oh and Lizzie Sue met Santa for the first time at the Berlin Mall too!
As the days got closer and closer to Christmas and Lizzie Sue's first birthday, Mommy and Daddy were getting excited. We had the house decorated. We had the house cleaned up ready for all of our house guests. We had an almost one year old let go of the ottooman and take three hurried little steps to the sofa. We had the stockings hung....what? YES you read that correctly, Lizzie Sue took her first real steps on her own the week before Christmas!!! Daddy decided not to tell Grammie Sue and Gramps and figured they
could experience it first hand in a few short days. Each day Lizzie Sue got better and better about taking those steps and was ready for center stage. Grammie Sue and Gramps arrived, came into the house and Lizzie Sue let out her war cry of excitement, sprinted across the room and Polamalu style tackled Gramie Sue. Ok so maybe it didn't happen exactly like that, but Lizzie Sue did take a few steps in front of Grammie Sue and Gramps and everyone rejoiced!!!Then Christmas Eve came and Lizzie Sue turned one year old!!! More to come on that shortly...
