all about me.... day thirty!

 day 30 - it's Christmas Eve! take a picture of what's under your Christmas tree! 

 it's amelia's first christmas!!! she is seriously spoiled.... all of those wrapped gifts {except one} are hers!! she loves to listen and sing to music {although i fear she may be tone deaf.... it's too early to tell, right?!} so we found lots of fun musical toys for her.  memaw and grandpa jim {my parents} got her this fantastic piano that she has already fallen in love with at a friend's house.  then i found this tambourine.... i should have made an additional purchase of earplugs, i think.  we also got this stand up table with several different musical elements.  it should be a really fun time in our house tomorrow - that is, after we let her play with all of the wrapping paper.  since she loves trash so much {straws, plastic lids, empty fruit cups}, we are allowing her one hour of trash play.  is it terrible that we actually had to discuss how long we would let our daughter play with garbage?! no?  ok, great.

she has alot of other really cool gifts besides musical toys.  check out this fun little guy.... it's a walk behind toy that also she can also ride on, but it's a hippo!! a hippo!!! i love it, look at his funky white tooth hanging out there!  and those rosy cheeks?  too cute :)  i bought this used from someone for five bucks - seriously, you can't beat it!

oh, and it looks like amelia already knows what some of her presents are.... that little sneak! she is so.fast. and will make it to the tree and rip open a gift before you can say "christmas" - no joke.  she completely unwrapped a book already, so we just gave it to her a few days early.  but i couldn't bear to let her open a big gift like this pop up toy before christmas morning!!  so i left it unwrapped and took lots of pictures so we could show it to her years from now.

my child is a nut.  i love that little girl!

i can't believe this 30 day challenge has come to a close, but what better way to end it than with a fun showing of amelia's first christmas tree - just the way she will see it tomorrow morning! we opened our stocking stuffers and box of gifts from my parents tonight so that tomorrow we can keep an eye on how much paper amelia tries to eat.  believe me, there will be pictures galore!

i hope you all have a wonderful holiday, whether you celebrate christmas or not.  enjoy your family, your time, and your love for all things.