Baby Tuesday on Thursday

2 hours before 2010, no less!


Santa brought her this Hello Kitty robe for Christmas. She thought it was great, but she didn't really want to wear it (to my disappointment).
After her last bath, I convinced her to put it on and then I also pleaded with her to let me put the towel on her head. She was so cute, I would have let her go to the grocery store like that.

Baby R also got a robe from Santa, but no bribe is big enough for him to wear it. It has little Jolly Rogers on it too, but he won't give in.


Check out this guy right here.
Baby S is watching him chug his chocolate milk like he's at a toddler frat party.
(He's shirtless after going through 2 shirts already, and getting both wet at our New Years Party tonight.)

For GiGi

(hope this makes you feel better about your frozen clutch)

Christmas Card for Baby Wednesday

Make a Smilebox collage

Baby Tuesday on Saturday

Yes, this might be the latest Baby Tues I have ever done. If you could see live footage of what's going on around me right now, you would understand completely.

It's so insane in this house.

Anyway- here's just a morsel until next week...

These are from the TX trip

Here's Mrs. Claus, looking an awful lot like every elementary school teacher I ever had. Mrs. Rankin? Is that you?! ;)

Btw, speaking of that I named off every elementary school teacher K-6 to my friend Fran the other day, and I was proud of myself, so I shall do it again, but this time with an interesting fact about each:

K, Mrs. Rankin -never seemed to really like us, and made us spell Dinosaur, which I thought was torture

1, Mrs. Shirley, -looked exactly like Vincent Price, and I watched enough TV by that time that I knew exactly who he was and thought that.

2, Mrs. Bennett, -very very thin, and kinda old. Definitely a smoker.

3, Mrs. Sparkman, I've talked about her before, she was the strangest of all, ashes on her forehead on Ash Wednesday

4, Mrs. Lolindger, very young, huge boobs, her husband looked like like he liked the Grateful Dead and "herbs."

5, Mrs. Miller, was single, and had a big crush on Kevin Costner

6, Mrs. Ingalls, her husband was a cartoonist and made all her classroom posters.

Outside the "Teddy Bear Hospital"

"Reindeer House"

Here she is with Santa. Shmoopie.

The cousins are watching baby Brooke sit on Santa's lap. That didn't go over too well.

Aurora makes fun of me that I turn my flash off alot, but look at all the pretty lights!

Sparkley.

I tried to take her picture in front of this fountain but she was too consumed with Santa's house, so we moved on.

today I made

This flag was a special request from my high school friend Jason who's serving in the Army over in Afghanistan right now.
I think it's a Star Wars flag? Something like that? I'm not sure, but apparently this is what it's supposed to look like, kinda. I have no idea if it'll fly, the fabric is slightly heavy, and my sewing leaves alot to be desired. But I dunno if he actually wants to fly it or not.



I mailed it today and I think it's probably not gonna get there in time for Christmas. And the peanut butter cups that went with it, I hope they don't get mangled on the way.

redlining

Currently I have 106 work emails.
Most of those emails have "action items" in them.

I only have 4 hours to work tomorrow.

Tonight alone I have to create a video, make cookies, make more food for tomorrow's meeting.
And then tomorrow I have to do a ton of work and prepare for a baby shower at my house.

The groceries [non-refrigerated ones] are still in bags on the kitchen floor. I have used up almost all of my clean underwear, the laundry is off-the-hook, and so are the dishes.

I don't even want to think about the stuff I need to sew and get mailed off.

And did I mention the 106 emails?!

:O !

I think I smell smoke coming from my brain.

Baby Tuesday on Thursday

I left my purse at a restaurant last night-- fear not, they have it and I'm gonna pick it up tomorrow.

However, the camera was in it. So I can only use my iPhone and Aurora's pics for Baby Tuesday. Sorry 'bout that.

We all headed over to Santa's Village on Sunday night to check it out, and of course, see Santa. After visiting Christmas in the Park for 3 years in a row, I can confidently say that Santa's Village was WAY better. Because you can actually go inside the little houses in SV, and CITP, you have to stand behind a gate and look at the houses. Plus, CITP is more commercial feeling.


(GiGi without a hat, had to wear a scarf on her head!)

Anyway, it was really fun, even though it was cold and wet out. My mom scored a place in line for us to wait for Santa.
Side note: I had more or less decided that I wouldn't take the kids to see "Santa" because I remember that I was freaked out by him when I was a kid and it seemed like a weird concept. I wasn't really against the idea, I just never thought that I would take the time to try it with C and R.
I interviewed Kid C before the big guy arrived:



She really had no idea what she was going to ask for but she was psyched up for the experience nonetheless.
We let the babies with us go first, then Kid S told Santa exactly what she wanted, which was hilarious.
Then Kid C got up there, with the demeanor of someone who was in the presence of a celebrity, just awestruck and mute. She froze up like Ralphie from Christmas Story and didn't come up with something to tell him.

She was happy though.
She was wearing Kid S's clothes from head to toe, that also made her happy.

And Santa had a Texas accent. That might have been my favorite part of all.


(this was the Reindeer barn)

I took a bunch more photos, but I'll have to post them next week. She met Mrs. Claus, some real firemen, and her and Kid S's highlight-- the Snow Princess. I mean, wow, they almost bowed in reverence. I can't wait to show you those photos.

We were there for Kid S's big birthday celebration. And from then on, the girls didn't want to be out of each other's sight. Even if they were fighting like Desperate Housewives, they still needed to be together.

NorthPark Mall looking at the ducks and turtles.


More Mall.


This is right when Kid C arrived and surprised Kid S at her party!
Kid C still has major static-head from the plane.


Aurora took this one, and this is such a perfect shot.
Smarmy. There's my Mini Me, right there.

And I wasn't with the little Mr. Baby R for most of the last week, but yesterday we hunted down some snow on the "east hills." Success! It sucked that the real snowy hills were guarded by barbed wire. I considered tossing them over, but then thought better of it. I did put the blanket over the barbs just in case they ran into the fence.


It looks meager on this side of the fence, but it was enough that they could play with it.



"cold!!"


Look at him. omg, he's cute.


(wheels are turning)



The classic I'm-taking-my-own-pic pic.
There, I was there, and I reached the snow.
Take that, CHP!




When there's no nap, and no gloves, the snow trip soon turns grumpy.

Baby Tuesday on Thursday

Why is all my text underlined? I have no idea.

Anyway- we cut our tree down from Crest Ranch on Saturday. They were slightly more grumpy than I would have preferred, but next year I'll remember to do the hot chocolate *before* the tree cutting, as to help them be in a perky mood.


Grump grump grump grump.


Finally she cheered up. She liked guarding the tree once we found one that we all agreed on.
She said "just like we had to guard our fridgerator!" [at the Sears outlet.] haha


Grump grump grump grump grump.


I had to bribe her with candy to wear that coat. I bought it from a garage sale, it's a vintage all wool coat from England. She hates it. If it had Cinderella on it, she'd wear it. But it has no commercial affiliations so she doesn't like it.
(I had to tell her some princess tennis shoes were tacky the other day at the store. And I might have said, "they make ugly shoes and then put princesses on them so people will buy them, don't fall for it." Maybe I said too much? Baby R had just dropped my iPhone on the ground, I was pushed to the limit.


Baby R and the tree carrying cart. We didn't really need it since we buy squat trees but hey.


Hoods on, both looking forward. Thank goodness, we got the pic.


Grump grump grump grump grump grump.


Love this shot! The joy was sporadic.


We bought an "Arizona Cypress" this year, which is a kind of seafoam green color. It's pretty cool, but I had to buy a different color scheme of ornaments to go on it.
Target trip!
I told Kid C she could pick out one ornament (in the correct color scheme of course!) and instead she found a 6 pack of princess ornaments. Her little face was so cute and innocent asking for them, that I didn't want to say "no, those are tacky!" Right below were these tiny tinsel trees, so I said "how about you can have your own tree and you can put them on there" She was SO happy with that. Best 9.99 I've spent in a long time. She decorated the whole thing herself, proudly and quietly, while I put other decorations out around the house.



This is Kid C in her preschool class doing show and tell today.
I felt like total loser mom today because I forgot until 5 min before class that it was my day to help out and bring snack. THANK HEAVENS FOR SUE! She was able to take Kid C to class and cover for the first 30 min while i took Baby R to KidsPark and bought some crackers and juice and ran back by the house to get her show-and-tell object. I grabbed the tree, and that made Kid C forgive me I think. She got to tell the class all about it. So cute.



(here she is decorating)

sorry!!

I know, Baby Tuesday is majorly late! I know!

I've been working like crazy trying to make deadlines before I leave for Dallas. And on top of that training for the half marathon (aaaa!)

But to show you that i"m not making it up, check out the video I just finished!