All I Want for Christmas...

The song, "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth," is very appropriate for today- Ava's first tooth began making it's appearance!  After two nights of my good sleeper waking up at midnight and 1am, I suspected something was up, so shortly after she woke up I checked and SURPRISE!  I can't believe it!  All day I wanted to keep looking at it and I'm sure I got on her nerves with my finger in her mouth so much today:)  She's getting so big... I can't stand it! 

In other news, I'm so happy it's Christmastime!  I'm trying to savor every moment of her first Christmas.  I even sent out Christmas cards for the first time.  We got her pictures taken back in October and as part of the picture package they gave us a few Christmas cards with one of the pictures on it.  Last week I told myself I was going to go back to the studio and order more, but I really wanted a current picture and different design, so I took out my camera, put her in a cute Christmas dress, and starting clicking away.  Here's the card (the final product doesn't have the box around "From the Barthalows" or the empty text box):

So far this Christmas season is full of great memories, and what Christmas would be complete without a picture with Santa?  I really expected her to just sit there on his lap and stare, but I was able to get a huge smile out of my happy girl!  What a great memory!