I've got nothing

Nothing special to talk about. Nothing particularly funny or interesting happened today. Took Logan to school, came home, made caramel peanut clusters, picked Logan up, came home, dipped clusters, and when dh got home we made a trek to the Hallmark store to pick out the kids' ornaments for the year. Oh and I went to the grocery store to get the fixins' for Christmas dinner(I have to make my garlic smashed potatoes) and brunch (my Dad is coming over). Oooh. Am I fun or what? Don't be jealous. ;)

My Big Girl!

Logan was playing with her this afternoon and helped her stand up. She kept turning around to flash me a smile. Look how big she's getting! All she wants to do now is stand up. I put her to bed and if she's not ready, she stands up and screams for me. Put her down and she gets back up. The boys never had this issue. She'll be walking before I know it.

These toys are part of her Christmas gifts btw. I got both off of Craigslist for less than the cost of one! They are the Laugh & Learn House and Kitchen. They def get two thumbs up from all the kids here!

Star Wars Meet & Greet

My mom called me yesterday from Toys R Us to ask me about gifts and to tell me that there were Star Wars characters at the store. I was planning to go out that way anyway so I packed all the kids up and we stopped there first. While the store was pretty busy, the characters were not. Guess not many people shop at the toy store with their kids (SMART!!). It was almost better than going to Disney to see them bc we could actually get up close without the crowds. They even had a real R2D2 robot that *talked*, rolled around and had the LED lights that flickered and such. Very cool! Logan went right up to everyone. Ian was a bit more timid but when I said "last chance", he decided to go see them. He was leary of the guns they carried until I reassured him that they were just pretend.

Pics: I'm not sure who all the characters are. I'm just going by what I think Logan told me. LOL


Princess Leia, Obi Wan Kenobi(?) Or is it Hans Solo? and R2D2


Sand Trooper (?) in background


Clone/Storm Trooper (?)


Snow Trooper and Pilot


Oh and Batman. Not Star Wars but they were thrilled!

So Excited!!

We are getting a special family Christmas gift this year. Dh won't tell me how (or who) but a little Elf has decided to give us a weekend vacation at Disney so I just booked a Friday and Saturday night at Animal Kindom Lodge for January!! Oohhh I'm so excited!!! We won't be renewing our passes this year unfortunately so this is sort of like a last hurrah for us. Hopefully we'll be able to get them again in a couple/few more years. I want Bella to have all the fun times that the boys got there too. Oh and me too. ;)

TAG!!

Go into your photo file folder.
Choose the 4th photo file within that folder.
And from that 4th file, choose your 4th photo.
Then share the photo and the memory that goes along with it.
Tag 4 more people.

I have years worth of photos on my PC so I had to decide which way to count to 4- across or down- and here's what I ended up with.

This is Bella at just one week old. It was April 1, 2008. Isn't she sweet?



Now I'm tagging JULIE, HEATHER, ANDREA & MANDIE.

Dear Babycenter,

You suck. You don't listen. We've told you time and time again that we don't like the new format. You've promised changes and haven't followed through and now you are closing our (old) board forever in favor of the new format and it still sucks. There are too many boards. Too many spin offs. Everyone is split up. No way to go back to where we left off on a thread. Etc. Etc.

I will miss you OBHB. R.I.P.

Cookies!! Nom, nom, nom

I pictured Cookie Monster as I typed my title. LOL

I had cookie exchange tonight but even before that I was making goodies all day. I made 60+ mint thins, 60+ peanut butter thins, and a pan of Magic Cookie Bars this afternoon. About 5pm, I threw some pizza in the oven in case the boys were hungry when they got home from Abuela's house and after they got home and I finally got Bella to bed I took off for my cookie exchange party. It was a lot of fun. I brought home 7 dz different cookies plus a few leftovers from the tasting portion. We played a game called Foodie Fight. It was a trivia game but it all related to food in some sense. We may have to get it for a future MNI. Thank you Andrea for a great night!!

Twilight

Finally got to go out with the girls tonight to see the movie on the big screen. I had already seen it once online (sshhh) and liked it better this time since the quality was better. I'm def on Team Edward! The teens behind us were ridiculous. I tried to ignore them but my friend Julie had to get onto them at one point. Someone must have seen the movie a few dozen times bc one girl was reciting the lines word for word! When Edward came on the screen, there were gasps and squeals. Same thing for Jacob and Carlisle. Oh my. I thought it was all rather funny though. We just won't let Amy pick the seats next time. ;)

After the movie, we all headed to our friend Jen's house (at 10pm no less) to discuss the book and movie and just do a lot of gabbing. Okay, mainly gabbing. It was really nice to get out with my girlfriends and see a movie and hang out. Next up- Cookie Exchange!!

Awesome Christmas Song

I love this group and song!

Elf Mischief

So our elf arrived the night we went to see Santa. He hasn't gotten into too much trouble yet. He basically finds a new spot to hide every night. He loves hide and seek. He did invite a friend over one night apparently and they had a *snowball* fight in our living room complete with Lego fort walls and even a snowman! I have proof!

Here he is hanging out on the tv. He still had a snowball in his hand!


And the snowballs...they made quite a mess! Snowballs were all over the floor and table.

Somebody stop her

She's growing up too fast. Not only is she crawling (at least she's still pretty slow with that), she started pulling herself up to standing less than 2 days later! She's also finally able to sit up by herself from a crawing position. She's decided our food is yummy and devoured some elbow noodles in tomato sauce the other night.

Here she is rolling around in her crib before deciding to stand up. I wish I knew why my videos always upload so crappy. The original always looks so good!

I Am Thankful

Logan was invited to read his I Am Thankful book to everyone at Reading and Writing night at school. Here's his video!

Is it possible...

To tent your house and set off a Lysol bomb in it? Seriously. This is getting ridiculous. If it's not a runny nose, it's a cough. If it's not either of those, it's a freakin' fever!

Logan was fine all day Friday. Saturday evening he started running a fever and said he had a headache. No other symptoms really. So Disney was out for today. Today he's running a fever still and even goes and lays down in his bed. Dh thinks he just didn't want to help clean. I think he was sick. His eyes looked a little pink and watery tonight and he just laid around all day. He did eat a little dinner and some popcorn. He didn't finish his lunch however which is really unusual so I know he's not feeling well. So he'll be home from school tomorrow. At least I don't have to go out in the cold and can sleep in a bit. ;)

I usually look forward to fall/winter because the weather is so beautiful but we've never been such a sick household before. UGH!!! I don't know what else to do!

Lotto Jackpot

Hmm... why is it that year after year at this time (the holidays) that the jackpot continuously rolls over again and again until it's super high? It never fails that it will be a large jackpot at Christmas time. I thought it was supposed to be random. Sounds pretty fixed to me.

I wish they would fix it so WE could win!!

Disney Decor

I love all the little hidden stuff at Disney. I've seen the parks over and over yet I always find something new. That's the beauty of WDW. It never gets old.

Outside the Toy Story Mania ride.
Did you ever have one of these? I think I had a math one.





Outside the Muppet theatre and store. It's ashame the Muppets (besides the cartoon) aren't on TV anymore. They were great!




If you can't read it, it says "Taking of Flash Pictures is strictly up to you" and "Out to lunch- Be back when I feel like it... Rizzo"


This was on the wall of the baby section (aka Muppet babies nursery). I'm not sure if production is supposed to be mispelled? Maybe the babies did it?


This is the Muppet Babies' window in their nursery. Here it is in the cartoon.

Back to WW I go

Ugh!!! I'm still 30lbs more than I was pre-Bella. Blech. I saw pics of me from yesterday and I look awful. Part of it is the clothes I'm wearing too. I have to go shopping. I know I really shouldn't but I only own 3 shirts now that fit (others have holes thanks to my stupid, fricken washer- that's a whole other post. I need a new washer) and of those 3 shirts, 2 make me look fat!! I didn't think that until I saw myself in pics with them. gross.

So I'm going back to my Weight Watchers. I've been sporadically counting for the past week or two but I need to get my butt back on it full time. I refuse to gain more weight and I refuse to EVER be that fat again in my life if I can help it. I will be making my usual December exceptions for my cookie exchange and Christmas but that's it. ;) Bella is eating solids more and more (the girl can't live without them now LOL) and she's nursing less so my points have dropped by 5. It's hard but I can do it.

Friday Disney Fun

After school today we packed everyone up and headed to Disney. Yea!!! We decided on DHS for a few reasons, the main one being the Osbourne Family Lights. It's awesome year after year. This year they were selling *3D* glasses for $0.99. Thankfully passholders got them free because I would have been disappointed otherwise. Logan liked his though. It's not easy to describe how they made things look. Dh put 2 pairs together at one point and it got trippy. Colors everywhere, rainbows and the people became translucent like. It was like watching some sci fi movie. If you've never seen the light show, they do dancing lights every 10-15min. I'll try to upload a video for you. Logan was a dancing fool himself. ;)

We also saw a few characters we hadn't met yet like Frozone from the Incredibles and Sorcerer Mickey. We also saw Mr & Mrs Incredible again. We just missed the characters from Bolt. Oh well. Wall-E is still not there. A castmember was saying something about his battery wouldn't stay charged and they are having issues with him so I guess he won't be around for a while longer. Bummer. I was hoping the kids would get to meet him before our passes expire. Bella enjoyed the characters I think. She slobbered all over Mickey's nose so I think that's a good sign.

I was smart today and packed pj's for all the kids so when they inevitably fell asleep on the way home, we were all set. Bella was the only one who actually woke up once we got home. Now they are all tucked in and hopefully having sweet dreams of Disney.

I'll try to get pics posted tonight or tomorrow!

Our Elf is here!

Since the kids all went to see the Big Guy himself last night, I guess the BG thought it was the perfect time to send one of his elves to watch over us. He's just here to observe and report back to the BG on all naughty and nice goings on and maybe get into some mischief himself. You know how they are.

Apparently while they boys were asleep last night, our elf helped himself to their Legos and made some kind of red Lego vehicle. He then parked himself way up on top of the kitchen cabinets on top of their Star Wars Lego vehicle for the night. Logan spotted him this morning and was going on and on about it. When Ian woke up, Logan grabbed his hand and showed him our Elf and then led him all over the house to see if the Elf had done anything else. It was funny.

We'll see what other adventures he gets himself into....

Two Milestones in One Evening

Here's the first...

Bella got to meet Santa for the 1st time. She had no issues at all and I didn't think she would. She mainly wanted to squirm around to see who was holding her or to grab Mrs. Claus' earrings. Ian was a bit shy at first but once he saw I wasn't leaving him, he was okay. Both he and Logan told Santa what they wanted and gave him a big hug.
(Btw, there was NO wait time! This was around 4pm-ish tonight)


And can you see the other one? Look closely.


She got her ears pierced! We went to the Piercing Pagoda and had them done. She was super squirmy while they were marking her ears but I held her tight when they pierced her. She barely made a peep. Daddy was more freaked out then she was. LOL The other sales lady and the customer she was working with were both surprised that Bella didn't scream or cry. They had no idea we were even done yet. She said she should have videotaped the whole thing to show other kids how easy it is. LOL I think it's harder and maybe more painful (even if it's just in your head) when you do it as they get older. I had mine done at 13. Hated the wait and thought it hurt like hell.

She did however cause mischief elsewhere. We were in Hallmark and I wasn't paying attention to what she was doing. I just didn't think about it. I was wearing her in my O&A on my front and she grabbed one of their metal tree displays holding the stuffed reindeer and pulled it over. Ugh. Dh had to pick it all up. I guess she really liked the look of those reindeer!

Funny Face

If these don't make you smile, you need help. I'm no good with captions so you'll have to make your own up. ;)