Merry Christmas

We'd like to wish all a very blessed Christmas! We hope yours was as wonderful as ours. With our new baby due very soon, we spent the holiday at home, just the three of us.

Here's (in photo form) is the recap of our Christmas season.


For the benefit of the grandparents...Christmas morning.


And lastly, Will playing with the bat and ball we gave him.


We won't be holding our breath for a baseball scholarship just yet!

Jingle Bells

Will's daycare put on a Christmas program for the parents. The two year olds were to sing "Jesus Loves Me" and "Jingle Bells".

We practiced at home for two weeks. And ever the performer Will would hold out the long notes and throw in some "jazz hands".

But somehow standing there in front of all those people...

Oh well, at least he didn't run off stage screaming.

The Recap

I've noticed several blogs re-capping the past several weeks. I guess it's just getting to be that busy time of year. Here's what we've been up to.

Pumpkin Carving


Being that this was Will's first year for trick or treating, I thought we have him go as something he'd be comfortable with...a cowboy of course. I found an adorable horse costume to wear as seen here.



However, this was the only short lived moment that he wore it. Upon taking the costume off the hanger it looked less like a horse and more like a carcass which freaked a certain little boy out...hysterically. It took a week of coaxing to get him to wear it for all of five minutes. So, we called in the back up stick horse.

Will and I have begun a new routine. At nine o'clock sharp, we are in bed. I read a book and then I leave Will to read a book while I get ready to go "night night". It's working out rather nicely.

Ever the entertainer, Will has begun taking a well deserved bow after each performance. I'm not sure where he picked it up, but I love it!



I will leave you with one of (my) life's little questions. As the weather turns cooler and we bundle our little ones up for a snuggley night's sleep, what is it about footie pajamas that inevitably result in out of diaper leakage?

Tagged!!

I've been tagged by Becca to go to my pics and post the sixth picture in the sixth folder. I am then to explain it.A gleeful Will after slathering himself with what looks like a combo of mac'n'cheese and applesauce. I absolutely love the expression of sheer delight at his accomplishment. We promptly took a bath!

I also have to include the next picture in the album. Love the 'do! Playing with our food was a common occurrence.

Lauren and Emily ...you're it!

Ugh...Pink Eye

Our Will has been battling a runny nose for a week which in turn some how became conjunctivitis. And in my motherly efforts to care for my sick child (wiping runny noses, removing gunk from gloppy eyes, administering eye drops to a two year old three times a day), I have managed to spread the infection to my own eyes.

Of course this would happen on a weekend when doctor's offices are closed and no one can be reached. Is there even an antibiotic to treat the infection that is safe to take while 7 months pregnant?

How did this happen? I had been so careful to not touch my eyes. My hands are raw from the constant hand washing I did to prevent this very thing. I've even been washing the bed linens and bath towels every day...up until the belt on the washer broke. It will now be Wednesday before the new belt will be in. I'm up to four pillows to remain quasi-comfortable at night. I don't own enough linens to change them every day until the washer gets fixed. And I really don't want to go to the laundromat. If I'm washing pink eye, what are other people washing? I just don't want to go there. I may resort to boiling water and washing them in the bath tub.

Speaking of the bath tub, I must go scrub it clean again. I never feel is clean enough. Especially when I see Will lying in an empty tub slurping the remaining water from the bath mat! What possessed him? How did that enter his mind? I am genetically predisposed to hypochondria, OCD-tendancies, and all around germ-phobia. They're kicking into overdrive!

Aaaagghh! A bear!

We apparently have a bear living outside of our house, or so a little boy with an active imaginagtion thinks. No matter how many times we tell the bear to "get out, bear!", he just won't go away.

Whatever shall we do?

The Pumpkin Patch Kid

Here are some pictures from our annual trip to the pumpkin patch.

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