It's amazing how the little things can make you so happy. For instance, these knee socks. I love little girls in knee socks but Ellie has been protesting them all year. It's a small miracle that I convinced her they were cool because we all know that girl is stubborn!

So yesterday I talk her into wearing them and I ask her which skirts she wants to wear with them. She looks at all of them and asks, "Which is the shortest?" Turns out that Ellie thinks if you wear long socks, you have to wear a short skirt. Luckily the high today is going to be 77. In December.

This morning she wakes up all cranky because she had a "really really bad dream. Tayler and Hannah had holes in the their teeth and they were HUUUUUGE." The nightmares of little girls I guess. So she's cranky, just like her mamma, she is not a morning person, and she can't decide what kind of hair do she wants. She's pouting and Nate's hollering at me, "I want somethingIcan'tunderstand." So I ask him to repeat it a few times until I finally get, "I.WANT.BRAIDS!" Ah ha! I guess Nate was tired of no one making a decision and made one for us. He also picked out Ellie's red shoes.

You can also see Ellie's cute Gingerbread coloring. She's taking a Gingerbread Village class where they are making a little village out of wooden blocks, but it has to stay at the class until it is done. I can't wait to see how cute it turns out!