Christmas with my niece.

One of my favorite things this Christmas has been spending so much time with my little niece. She’s so full of life, curiosity, excitement, and love. As much as I’ve enjoyed seeing Christmas through my little one’s six-month-old eyes, seeing the holiday with a two-year-old’s perspective is even better!

She helped me put ornaments on my tree, and undercoating and redecorating it many times over the past few weeks.

She loves her little car, so my sister set up this fun, quick photo shoot.

Her spunk makes me laugh!

These are two of the strongest, most resilient people I know. {Beautiful in everyway.}

A week or so ago, my niece and I made some gingerbread cookies. She was a baking pro!

The poor pup was covered in flour by the end of the process…

And I’m not sure how much icing actually made it onto the cookie versus in her mouth…

Works of art!

And my very favorite time is when we do cousins bath time, pj’s, and bedtime stories with “Uncle”…

I mean, seriously; is that not the most precious thing ever?!

All this cousin time was not planned, but it is most certainly one of the best indirect blessings of the year.