Hope everyone had a great holiday! We did. As I’ve said many times and I”m sure I’ll continue saying.. time flies. I can’t believe it’s already January 2012. Skylar enjoyed moving the star on her advent calendar. At 1st she was kinda like “eh, whatever”- but then 1 day we forgot to move it and she pulled her stool over to it and moved it herself! Here’s a picture of her standing on her stool moving the star:
We went to my Aunt Paula and Uncle Tom’s house in NJ as is a Condliff tradition- she hosts a gathering every Christmas Eve and I can count on 1 hand the times I”ve missed going to their house. We (the Condliffs) always take up residence on the same couch 
On Christmas morning Skylar really wasn’t all that interested in opening gifts. Daddy tried to stuff Dakota in her stocking but she was too big. So he just laid the stocking on top of her- and Skylar saw this as her opportunity to “pat” the baby. She still loves putting a blanket over her baby dolls and patting them- we have to remind her sometimes not to pat Dakota too hard
We went to lunch with Chris’ grandfather at his place- I don’t have any photos from there. We must’ve used only Karen’s camera. We came home and for naptime I asked Chris to take skylar’s Xmas dress off and just put a t-shirt on so she didnt get the dress all wrinkle-y. Well, when she got up from her nap, she didn’t want to put her dress back on. So she was just wearing a t-shirt that was big enough to be a (short) dress. And I had gotten her some dress up shoes for Christmas (which, in retrospect, they look like floosy (sp?) shoes but at the time I thought they were cute)- so she put those on and had her Santa hat on. She was quite the vision. So I decided to let her show up to Grandma’s house in her outfit so they could all get a good laugh too. Here she is with Gramma Bonnie:
Of course I brought her dress along to change her into so she wouldn’t look like this the ENTIRE night.
We gathered at Karen’s house for Christmas dinner- again, Chris and Karen did an awesome job of cooking- thank you! It was the Nagles, my parents, and us- just enough kids to make opening gifts fun. And Skylar started getting more into opening gifts once she watched Ellie and Hannah ripping into their gifts.
Then on Monday we headed to Aunt Sandy and Uncle Lex’s house to get together with them and Bret/Pub, and Chad/Beth and her 2 boys. We had a great time- skylar LOVES all the attention they give her. Monday night we got together with Scott and his family- as always, 6 kids makes for chaos. We had a good time opening gifts and being together- and Skylar was REALLY starting to get into opening gifts by this time. She was even opening mine and Chris’ gifts for us
And then we had a “quiet” couple of days during midweek to recover from the late nights we had Fri, Sat, Sun, and Monday. Here Skylar is playing with 1 of her gifts from Grandmom- playdoh! She loves play doh and making “snakes”- that’s her specialty. This occupied her for (no joke) HOURS.
And last week was my “birthday week” as Chris and I celebrate. So I had my dinners all planned out and where we were going to go each night. We went to Longhorn Steakhouse- where Skylar liked playing w/ the napkin and Heather had a good time holding Dakota.
And we ordered sandwiches from Isaacs one night and 1 night I had a craving for Taco Bell. And then on my actual birthday I wanted a cheeseburger and milkshake so we went to Ruby’s Diner and met the Nagles and my parents for dinner. But wouldn’t you know it that when we walked in there was a sign on the door saying “our ice cream machine is broken- no milkshakes”- are you friggin’ kidding me?!? That was my whole reason for going there! What a bunch of crap. So we hit up Maggie Moos after dinner for ice cream and I got my milkshake fix.
During the week we started un-decorating. Boo! But it is nice to re-claim the space taken up by the Xmas tree. Here’s Skylar helping Dadddy vacuum up all the tree needles after he took it out of the house. She loves helping!
Removing the tree also made room for her new play kitchen from Grandmom- she loves talking on the cell phone that came with it. And she’s really into pretending these days. She’ll stand there and “cook” something for us and then bring it over for us to eat/drink. So cute.
I also decided to put Dakota in Skylar’s play stroller- and she almost didn’t fit! Dakota looks huge in this stroller. Skylar liked pushing her around though- but I didn’t let her do it for long b/c she tends to run into things w/ her stroller.
New Years Eve- Chris and I actually made it up til midnight to see the ball drop- amazing!
New Years DAy- here’s Skylar watching the Mummer’s Parade. She saw all the parade participants strutting w/ their umbrella’s and asked me for her umbrella. So she had her umbrella and was strutting around mimicing the people she saw on TV- too cute.
January 2nd- happy 3 month-versary to Dakota! Here’s her photo in the recliner. 
And Skylar really wanted to get in the pictures too- I like this one b/c Dakota’s actually smiling and they look like they love each other!
And now it’s back to work. boo! We did also have a visit from Heather on Monday, 1/2 to watch the Penn State football bowl game with us. Thanks for coming over Heather!
This weekend Kelly, Mark and Lexi are coming up from VA to visit. They’re going to stay w/ Carrie tho since she has more room for them to sleep. We have plans to meet for dinner on Fri and then get together on Sat as wel so they can see our house and meet Dakota. Should be a fun time.
Gramma Bonnie is here this week (and weeks to come too) to watch Dakota for me while I work Tues- Thurs. Thanks mom!
Hope everyone had a good holiday.
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