Lily's Christmas List!

Lily is VERY excited for Christmas this year. Okay, she has only a vague idea of what is going on but she is excited. We have been telling her all about Santa and she does an excellent Ho Ho Ho. She LOVES Christmas lights and I can't wait to see what she does when we bring in the tree. 

Several people have asked me what they can get Lily this year for under the tree. If you would like to buy Lily clothes she is currently wearing 18m but would appreciate some 24m clothes for later on this winter. The one thing she does not need is 18m fleece jammies, she has 2 pairs for every day of the week! Her shoe size is 5. 

If what you had in mind is more likely to bring giggles and a smile to her face on Christmas morning, here are a few things I think she would pick out for herself. All of these toys can be bought on amazon.com (click here to see her "wishlist") and I am sure other places like target and toysrus. As of this weekend all of the toys below are on sale on amazon.

Little People Lil' Movers Airplane

Leapfrog shapes and sharing picnic basket

Little People Ice Cream Truck

Leapfrog Fridge Phonics Magnet Set

Little People Wheelies - All About Working Set

Leapfrog Fridge Farm Animal Set

Redbox Ice Cream Play Set 

Color Wonder - Book and Markers

A birdie told me that Santa is bringing her a play kitchen with food and pots and pans! The above are of course just a few things I saw that I think will get a lot of play time. With our luck she will spend most of the day playing with the boxes the toys come in!

(I have NO clue what is up with the formatting of this post, on my end it looks fine. Super annoying) 

Trying to control myself

Three months ago we said things like:

"Please, don't go overboard."
"She is just a baby."
"There is a three gift limit!"

Two months ago we said things like:

"She doesn't need a whole bunch of stuff."
"She could use some clothes, I guess..."

"We're not getting her anything...ok maybe one thing."

Last month we said:

"Did you see those cute things over there!"
"Oh, look at page 3...hmmm"
"She would LOVE that!"

Today I had to go to babiesrus.  No I really did, I had a coupon for a FREE case of diapers (that I earned by buying 9 previous cases of diapers of course) and it was going to expire tomorrow.  We're talking about $41.99 people!  So I put Lily down for a nap and headed out to buy nothing*.  Get my diapers and come home!  I spent an hour in the store.  I found myself saying over and over, "Lily doesn't need this!"  But oh how I wanted her to have it!

I settled on three small toys.  Can you guess which one I am most ashamed of??

*Matt had a good laugh at this statement after I posted this entry.  Did I forget to mention that Matt was home when Lily went down for her nap??  Please do not call social services.  I did not kiss my baby goodbye and leave her home alone :)