Sikorski Saga

Our rule is after Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas prep can begin in earnest. Tim's hanging lights! Luella is looking up on the rooftop for reindeer paws, or Daddy hanging lights. The final outside decorations. Maybe next year we'll get more lights to cross the entire front of the house. But Tim's not getting on the roof again this winter and Kyla never will! The living room - yes, we did rearrange the furniture if you haven't been here since the middle of October. The stockings were hung by the window with care - since we don't have a fireplace. The village people get two trees and massive protection with those sabers! Did you start singing YMCA? The other stockings were hung in the other window! Guess how many people live here! Our nativity scene is near the clock. Yep, it's almost 5 pm when these pictures were taken! The tree set up with all the toys underneath. Yes, Luella knows what they all are, she plays with them everyday! The other nativity scene with ang...

The bib is a present from Suzy - "Result of Mommy kissing Santa" - yep! Members of our church family invited us to dinner. Tom Glose and Luella playing after dinner. We invited Auntie Ginger to dinner with us. As always, Luella and Ginger had a ball!

We've been sitting Luella on a potty chair before her bath at night for about a week. Tonight was the first time she really used it! One step closer to no more diapers!

Luella gives Tim raspberries!

Tim was notified on Wednesday that he will be taking command of HHC , 20 th Support Command. On Thursday, the outgoing commander and Tim settled on the end of February for their change of command. You are all invited to come witness this historic moment! Kyla assures you there will be cake. Command is a huge step forward in Tim's military career! This particular command will be very challenging and full of character building. Tim will have a 1-star general, a few full-bird colonels, a bunch of lieutenant colonels and majors (who outrank Tim) and many fellow captains in his company he will have to wrangle, along with approximately 200 other Soldiers that Tim does outrank (but 90% of them don't work for him). Hopefully it'll be easier than herding cats!

Luella got this nifty coat from her Great-Aunt Nancy. She loves to wear it all the time - even with her jammies ! We are taking our family photos on Sunday and Kyla decided to practice with Luella. Here is her cutest smiling picture! Here is a typical photo from our practice photo shoot!

Inger Talbot's baby shower! The fall colors on APG / Edgewood post thru the windshield. More fall colors while driving off post.