just have to. make. the. best. of. it.

We are still alive (I think) just limping along.
So much has happened since Nov 30th...let me explain...no wait there is no time let me sum up...
I missed Sophie's five month post. She is now five months three weeks and oh my how much has happened.

 Helping to pick out her first Christmas Tree!

She rolls over! One day several weeks ago she rolled three times from back to belly. And of course Trevor and I missed it all three times! She has been rolling steady ever since however she is still not great at going from belly to back so she gets stuck and starts crying!

Baby's got teeth! Her two bottom front teeth have come through and soon should be showing in her sweet little smile!

She is doing a great job starting to sit up on her own. She still wobbles and falls over (the slow face plant) quite a bit but is doing a great job!

We had our first family cold...poor baby had a runny noes and a bit of a cough. Fortunately it was not too bad and everyone seems to be on the mend.

We were scheduled to close on our house Nov 30th but due to the incompetence of Chase bank (FYI never ever use Chase for any reason they were horrible) we ended up closing on Dec 3rd. And then we ran smack into the three rules of house/construction projects.
#1. It will always, always, always take waaaayyy longer than you think it will.
#2. If something can go wrong it will go wrong.
#3. If something outside of your project can happen or go wrong it will.
We were hoping to move the second week of December. We are now planning on moving next Thursday. We also had a bit of a case of bite-off-a-bit-more-than-you-can-chew-itis.
I could write paragraphs about my emotional upheaval during this whole thing but it all boils down to this.
We just have to make the best of it.
So Sophie's first Christmas is not the perfect picture I imagined and wanted to make it. So. What. Its her first Christmas, uniquely and completely, box filled and in the apartment that we first took her home to.

Box filled Christmas

The only other Christmas deco I put up

Someday when I am 90 years old and looking back on my life I bet I wont even remember how disappointed I was but I know I will remember my sweet little first born girl on her very first Christmas that she will not even remember except through the stories that we tell her! And hey at least those stories will be interesting!
And so whether your making the best of it or enjoying your picture perfect Christmas.....may joy fill your heart  and have a Merry Christmas!!!

 P.S. There are two movie quotes for this post... a partial one in the title and a paraphrased one in the body. Look at me go!