We have a crawler!

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Ethan officially entered the world of crawling! Each day he gets a little faster and can cover longer distances. If we leave him in the (carpeted) floor in his room, it's not long until we hear the little pat-pat-pat of his hands on the hardwoods in the hall--coming to find us to see what he's missing. So now the vigilant supervision begins. Poor Kaitlyn is getting very stressed trying to keep her toys out of his reach. Little does she know that it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. We're still working on the concept of sharing...and I have a feeling we'll continue to work on it for a looooong time :)

We went to my mom's house for our traditional Thanksgiving feast. Mom and I decided to forgo Black Friday this year and instead just spent the time at home, relaxing and working on a few projects around her house. We took Kaitlyn to the town square to let her get some energy out. Here are a couple of pictures of her at the courthouse.

We also put up our Christmas tree this week. Kaitlyn was so thrilled to help with the decorations. She decided that it was her job to hang all of the ornaments on the tree, so we ended up with a large concentration of ornaments about 2 - 3 feet off the floor. Here she is in her pajamas, being very deliberate with the placement of an ornament.

She goes to visit Santa on Saturday. We're predicting another round of tears this year, but maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised :)