So much to say ...

I have a ton of blog posts (for both blogs), e-mails, etc. to write ... and no time to do it.

See, Christmas for us isn't really Dec. 25. Since I have to ship 96% of our gifts, as well as address cards (which are extremely cute, I must say), Christmas comes early and needs to be completed by mid-December so I don't spend Elle's college fund on sending packages far and wide.

This is from the "making of" part of our Christmas cards:

And although I'm greatly reducing the amount of Christmas baking I will do this year, I'm still baking a few things, and we have work potlucks, holiday parties, birthdays, etc. to bake for ... this week I'm making at least two batches of cookies, a cherry cobbler, a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake, carmelitas and a cake. In addition to working, working out, trying to sew curtains for Elle's room and everything else daily life throws at me.

So, in short, I'm burning the candle on both ends. (I actually have a blog post in mind about this very fact.)

I might not post a lot or very often in the next few days, but I hope to be back soon with several posts, from serious to fun to milestone-riffic, as Elle met Santa for the first time last week :) I leave you with some recent videos of our little El(l)f(e).

(And yes, I *have* made time for videos - I haven't even uploaded all of them, but on my days off, it is typical for me to grab the camera a few times a day and just grab a few minutes here or there of Elle being Elle.)

Quite possibly the cutest noise ever:

Trying to record her laughs without her noticing and being distracted by the camera:

My favorite part of this one is when she realizes I've got the camera and flings her towel off:

Crazy for a current favorite toy:

Remember that Vitamin D? She still loves it and even "helps" us give it to her now: