It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

We are all ready for Christmas around the Smith household. We put the big tree up last Saturday and Lydia and Layton's trees up on Sunday. Lydia passed her small purple tree on to Layton. Lydia and daddy went and bought her a new tree with multi colored lights on it. She loves it. She said that she wants to take it one day when she has her own kids! (since when did she start talking about leaving our house!) Lydia also shared a nativity scene of hers with Layton. So Layton has her own tree and nativity scene! I am so proud that Lydia is kind to her sister. So with the trees up the inside of the house is all decorated, as much as I am going to decorate. Now tomorrow I will work on the outside. The girls and I went out Meme's today and decorated her door. She does not put a tree up any more so the last several years I have decorated her door.
This year Lydia is asking for Santa to bring her a pink camera. She took the picture above of Layton smiling. I think she does very well. I hope she continues to be interested in photography, that would be an awesome talent.
Last weekend Lydia started getting a runny nose. I thought it was just a cold and that we could handle it at home. So for 4 days I gave her meds that made her climb the walls. On Tuesday morning when she woke up, she was running a high temperature so I decided to take her to the doctor before anyone else got it. When we walked in the drs office, there were 25 sick kids waiting to be seen. And I thought we were going to get in and out! Ha. After 2 1/2 hours waiting Dr. Sepulveda told me that Lydia had 2 VERY infected ears and a red throat. The good thing was that she said she didn't feel bad, so through it all she was in good spirits. So after going through 4 boxes of Kleenex this week I was anxious for the snot to leave our house. This morning when Layton woke up (at 8:30, good girl!) she had a VERY runny nose.:( I have had to wipe her nose all day and she hasn't acted her happy self. She has spit up on me more times than I could count tonight. I am already hating the winter months and we have just begun! Dave went to Hot Springs today with some friends rock climbing. He is staying tonight and will be back tomorrow. Lydia keeps asking me how many hours until he gets home, I think she misses him.