St. Nick

St. Nick came to visit the Palmer household (and came to Grandma and Grandpa's house too) later on in the day. St. Nick brought mommy and daddy a new glider for the family room. We thought this would be so nice to have with the new baby on the way, and it matches our furniture extremely well. Yea for Black Friday sales at Babies 'R Us. I have to brag a bit on this purchase...it was a $300 glider, on sale for 50% on the morning of Black Friday. Then they let me use an extra 20% off coupon I had, making it a grand total of $119. Totally worth it! And totally surprised they still gave me the deal since they were sold out (they had to order it)!

Tessa didn't get the whole idea of the stocking and taking things out of it, but really enjoyed the items daddy pulled from it, including some barrettes. She wanted to wear all of them, as seen below.
St. Nick also brought some Color Wonder Dora paper and markers. What a great (and mess free) product!
The stocking was rounded out by Tinkerbell, the movie. I'm hoping she will start to like fairies enough she may even want to move into her fairy room at some point. We tried getting her to sleep in her big girl room several weeks ago, and it didn't work so well, so for now, she's back in the crib.

Potty training is still going well, though she still wears diapers most of the time. On Sunday she peed in the potty all day long and only wet one diaper. Not too bad. I'm really hoping to totally get her into undies over Christmas break while I am home with her. We'll see if I'm successful...

And ultrasound countdown...3 days! I found myself thinking about it constantly yesterday and am so anxious for it to be here and find out if Tessa will have a little brother or sister. The way things work at Mason Middle School is most of the teachers in one particular year seem to have babies of the same gender. For example, the year I had Tessa, there were maybe 9 of us pregnant, and I believe 8 of us had girls. This year seems to be another year of the girls for those who have found out so far, but we will see!