Grandma says this picture should have a caption that reads “Back off or someone is going to get hurt!”?? LOL.?? Our little daughter has quite the mind of her own these days.?? She has taking to laying face down on our wood floor and kicking her feet when something displeases her.?? Tanner calls this “taking a fit“.?? 🙂 :)?? Tanner and Ty didn’t start “taking fits” until they were about 18 months old so this started really early.?? So far, she has only done it when something hurt her (like the coffee table this morning), or when Jim or I put her down when she is in the mood to be held.?? It took quite some effort (on Jim’s part) to break Tanner’s fit “taking” and Ty, always the happy one, rarely could munster the anger for a real fit.???? I wonder if we are in for it with this little one?

We had a great holiday week but by the end of it, I had come down with the cold flu.?? You know the body aching, throat hurting, eyes burning, ear ache, headache, teeth itching (okay my teeth weren’t itching but my dad always asked me if that was one of my symptoms growing up so it seemed to belong in my line up when listing all my many complaints – flu.?? I may have to take??Tori to the Dr. for this flu.?? She got the runny nose and the cough in early November and still has not managed to shake it.?? It died down for a couple of weeks and then started up all over when we returned from vacation.?? She is keeping me up about 2 hours every night with her coughing.?? She doesn’t cough during the day though – inconveniently – only from about 3:00 AM to 5:00 or 6:00 AM.?? Last night I gave up and watched a movie with her 3:00 to 5:00.???? I am feeling better than I was but now the stress is kicking in.?? Our adoption recertification paperwork was due last week (it has to be renewed every year), budget needs done, house needs cleaned, blah blah blah.?? I had hoped to get a handle on my new business before the start of the year but that didn’t happen either.?? I am anxious for 2009 though.?? Ready to get started on my new years resolutionS.?? Looking forward to completing the 2nd grade with Tanner and starting Ty in Kindergarten.?? This year will be fun experiencing life with a daughter too.?? I had to text Heidi when I was Christmas shopping because I had tears streaming down my face when I got to buy Tori her first girl toy – a purse.?? I remember when Tanner was a baby, I would get weepy sometimes just to look at all the baby toys scattered across my front room.?? MY house had BABY toys!!!!?? I am going through that feeling again.?? I almost tripped on a DOLL STROLLER in my hallway this week!!!!?? Aunt Heidi made her a rag doll for Christmas – oh so so precious!!!!?? I am anxious to show you that.?? I’ll take a picture of her with it.?? She is still eating her dollies so far though I noticed Daddy trying to teach her to share her pacy with her dolly yesterday.?? She found that…interesting.?? :)??

These pictures were all taken after the official pettiskirt shoot.?? She was playing so cute that I just kept right on shooting.?? Hope you had a wonderful Christmas week.