MIGHTS!!!!!!

that's beth for "LIGHTS!!!!"

she.goes.nuts. over them. it's hilarious! and has made our short drive home from work/daycare so much more interesting. to the point where she'll see lights on a house three streets away and yell "mights!"

so we often take the long way home and drive around the neighborhood, stopping in front of various houses that have dancing lights or moving reindeer or snowmen or an inflatable santa, and with her hands and nose pressed to the window, beth will point and say "whoaaaaa, mights!" while i sit in the drivers seat and gleefully egg it on with a giant smile on my face. i love that she loves it so much and is so entertained. and as we drive away she'll say "bye mights, bye mights" and wave her hand to wish them farewell. and not 3 seconds later is she squealing again and begging me to drive on. we've driven by the same houses day after day - with the occasional detour - and her excited level reaches a solid 9 every time. it's awesome.

it's funny... she saw an inflatable santa on the top of a shelf in a store aisle once a few weeks back and not knowing what it was she pointed to it and said "mommy, mommy!" so i explained that it was santa and we went about our shopping. three or four days later we saw another santa on a balloon or something totally random and she yelled, "mommy! santa!" and from then on she has pointed out every santa she can find or see. it's like she was born believing in christmas. girl after my own heart. we are having such a good time with it - i think it's awesome that she's so into it when she really doesn't have a clue what it all means or what's happening. it's like she innately feels the spirit of christmas and just knows that it means something good. do you think that's possible?

next weekend we're going down to the zoo to look at the zoo lights and i honestly can't wait to go. i can't wait to see her expression and watch her be surrounded by thousands and thousands of lights.

on another note, we're down to 5 weeks people. 5 weeks! went to the doc today, everything is feeling and sounding good. we have an ultrasound scheduled for the 28th to see if we can guess how big this kid is going to be when he comes out and if a natural birth is in my future. they told me if i go easy on the carbs and sugar it might help him from getting too fat. bad time of year to be telling me that doc. don't you know 'tis the season to eat your brains out???? sheesh. anyway, i'll be sure to share the pictures.

MIGHTS!!!!!