Chistmas Day 2012

Alexis had an incredible Christmas!
She made sure to leave out some cookies and chocolate milk for Santa on Christmas Eve.



And she woke up on Christmas morning to find that Santa had visited in the night and left her a Cinderella dress!



He also brought her the movie Toy Story.



After breakfast with my family, the little girl couldn't wait to open her presents.



Our Christmas Day was filled with family, food, love, toys



and lots of movie watching.

Visit with Santa

My little girl got to meet Santa this weekend.



She snuggled up on his lap and told him what she wanted for Christmas.



Definitely the sweetest thing I've seen all month.

Christmas tree time!

Someone picked put their Christmas tree last weekend. 



The Stella Dolce Photography blog has a bunch more photos of our Christmas tree farm adventure.

Back bends

Decorating her little tree

Her babyhood is slipping away

The below photo was taken on November 10th.  For the first time in 3+ years Alexis went to sleep with no binky.  Earlier in the day she decided it was time to give all of her binkys to another baby as she was a big girl and didn't need them.

I am glad that the binky is gone because at this point it has a higher chance of damaging her teeth.  We were planning on giving them all to Santa in a few weeks anyway.  But.  But no binky means my little baby is almost gone.  It means that now I have a big kid.  And while I am so very happy that Lexi continues to grow, it makes me a little sad.  We are not planning on having any more children, so I know that I have to soak up every little phase of her.  And this is a hard one to let go of.

Man, I love that baby kid.

The adorableness kills me

3 going on 13

Doesn't she look like such a teenager here?

So cute it hurts sometimes.

she's telling me what all the letters on the ketchup bottle say

My morning consisted of a pretty epic meltdown from this little girl

Dance class

Sprawled out in the big bed

It's a good thing she's a heavy sleeper, or moving her to the toddler bed would not be fun. #neverwakeasleepingbaby

A little late night iPad play

Why, yes. That is the entire contents of her kitchen in the floor.

Halloween 2012

Lexi was a raven this year for Halloween.  She had a blast going door-to-door saying "trick or treated!" for candy.



Check out the Stella Dolce Photography blog for more photos of the her!

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2009 through 2012

Totally not paying attention

Pumpkin Patch 2012

This weekend we went to the pumpkin patch!
Do you have your pumpkin?

My sweet, Rapunzel-loving girl

My girl at dance class last night

She is such a ham...

Stopping to smell the flowers

Watching Aladdin

Alexis

Took my girl out last night for a quick shoot. Sweet Baby, don't ever change.

Breakfasting

Passé

Play breakfast

Contemplating the morning

Spin, spin, spinning

Nothing more than Lexi being Lexi

Lined up

I figured I had a few more years before she started driving...