It's no secret that Raven has a love and admiration for beards.  She was invited to meet Santa Friday night at the Circle of Lights in downtown Indy and you can tell she really enjoyed that beard.

With Raven's new found ability to crawl and move better in her walker, I'm still too terrified to put up the Christmas tree.  She has an uncanny ability to want to get into exactly what she should not get into.  Why can't ALL her toys, water bottles, socks, etc. make her happy enough?  She has also been biting my shoulder like a vampire, this development I do not understand other than I am raising a vampire.  Raven is currently kicking up the area rug to try to get her walker through (blocked off by an ottoman) in order to get to the tv.  Now she is screaming.  I better go distract her before she successfully gets to the tv stand.