Katie Gets Ready for Christmas

Katie has been busy getting ready for Christmas. She's flipped through every catalog we have and picked out Christmas cd's for us. She got to spend a night with her Aunt Sue last night while Nancy and I went to my office's holiday party. Poor Sue had to endure 2 hours of a full-volume Katie meltdown. Somehow she managed to get her to go to sleep in the process.

The holiday party was at the historic Willard Hotel next to the White House and was a lot of fun. Some interesting facts about the Willard Hotel:
* Abraham Lincoln lived there for a month before his inauguration,
* Every president since Franklin Pierce has visited the hotel.
* Martin Luther King, Jr. finished writing his "I Have a Dream Speech" in the hotel.
* Ulysses S. Grant would sit in the lobby smoking cigars and drinking brandy while President. He popularized the term "lobbying" after people approached him for favors.
* Julia Ward Howe wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in the hotel.

Katie does some catalog shopping...




"Whew! Shopping is tiring!"


Katie picks out a Christmas CD.


Katie veges on the couch.


Rusty wants to know if he's on the nice list.


After my office Holiday party, Nancy and I went to see the Capitol Christmas Tree. This year the tree was from Vermont. It's our favorite tree in D.C. and we make sure to go see it every Christmas.