I ordered an entertainment armoire on November 16th. Its coming on Thursday. It's been such a painful experience that I've gotten an extra $50 taken off. Ask me sometime about my "gift certificates to local eateries" experience and you'll see what a great bargainer I am.
Merry Christmas! We'll try to remember to take pictures!!!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Tomorrow
Its the Sunday before Christmas.
I am: 1. Singing in the choir.
2. Speaking
3. Teaching / planning and coordinating the Christmas program for the Young Women.
4. Getting us ready by ourselves because John has meetings in the morning.
5. Having a single man in our ward over for dinner.
6. Maybe cleaning a little before he comes over. I hope.
7. Stressing about the amount of cleaning and prep and presents and wrapping and grocery shopping and STUFF I still have to do!!!
Obviously, I'm still writing my talk now, but I've been doing this all day, so I'm taking a short break. Aaaah! (At least my kids went down well tonight!)
Dang it!! I forgot about the cookies I still have to make for the girls tomorrow!!!
I am: 1. Singing in the choir.
2. Speaking
3. Teaching / planning and coordinating the Christmas program for the Young Women.
4. Getting us ready by ourselves because John has meetings in the morning.
5. Having a single man in our ward over for dinner.
6. Maybe cleaning a little before he comes over. I hope.
7. Stressing about the amount of cleaning and prep and presents and wrapping and grocery shopping and STUFF I still have to do!!!
Obviously, I'm still writing my talk now, but I've been doing this all day, so I'm taking a short break. Aaaah! (At least my kids went down well tonight!)
Dang it!! I forgot about the cookies I still have to make for the girls tomorrow!!!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Retraction
Two days ago I wrote that Annika outgrew her 18 month clothes. While this may be mostly true, today, after getting herself dressed in pants that I didn't recognize, I realized that she is wearing Jacob's 12 month pants. She'll be 3 in March.
Did I mention that I love Christmas?
Did I mention that I love Christmas?
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
And by "later today", I meant...
Ok, so here are the highlights of the last two months:
Thanksgiving was yummy and Annika was in heaven surrounded by cousins and Aunt Michelle. She'd been asking for weeks to get in the car and go to Aunt Michelle's. Especially when she wasn't happy with me. When she's bored, she wants to "talk to somebody." This means that she wants me to call someone on the phone so she can "talk" to them, but she generally sticks her face in the couch and hides, or she nods when the other person asks them questions. She was asking to talk to Jake's mom for a whole day, probably because she wanted me to call and ask if Jake could play. Annika and I spend a lot of time in the dragon cave, which is whatever blanket is handy and we lay in wait for unsuspecting Daddy's to come and try to relax on the couch with the cozy "blanket." Ha! While inside the dragon cave, our conversation goes pretty much like this: "I love you princess." "I love you dragon." "Now, I'm dragon. You're princess." "Ok. I love you dragon." "No, Jacob's dragon." "Ok. I love you... wait, who are you?"
Annika has also developed the "endearing" habit of shushing us and saying "Jacob's sleeping" when we're saying something she doesn't want to hear.
We're still no closer to potty training and I'm not sure what to do about the binky, but she's otherwise learning and talking and articulating and sassing at a fast pace. Physically, she is growing a little. For instance, she doesn't fit into her 18 month clothes anymore!
Lastly, my little girl who will not eat ANYTHING, and this is only a slight exaggeration, likes "triceratops leaves." With ranch dressing. My kid, over whom I agonize about her meals, likes salad. And green pepper mustaches. And RADISHES!
(Triceratops are herbivores.)
Jacob is pretty close to walking, smiles with his WHOLE face, tries to bite my toe when it hangs off the couch and is very sweet, very patient and very lovable. He likes to be tickled, to ride horsey with Daddy, loves bananas and will eat anything I give him. He sleeps well, he travels well, he imitates sounds and singing, he can clap if you say "clap" even if you don't do the action, and he is very patient with an overbearing and mildly abusive sister.
We got a big, beautiful christmas tree for only $20 because we live in the christmas tree capital of the world. We've (I've) decorated the house and it feels cheery and festive and I'm inordinately proud of myself, because I'm not generally very good at decorating. (Its hard to go wrong with Christmas.)
I joined the gym so that I won't wallow in the Oregon winter pit of despair and so far, so good. We paid for the Kidscare package, 2 for 1, so the kids go to the "playplace" while I work out. Its a herculean task just to get us to the gym, so I'm feeling pretty proud.
John continues to be wonderful, if a little stressed. (Too much work, not his fault.)
Here are some of our recent pictures. See if you can pick out which ones Annika took. You'd be surprised.
Thanksgiving was yummy and Annika was in heaven surrounded by cousins and Aunt Michelle. She'd been asking for weeks to get in the car and go to Aunt Michelle's. Especially when she wasn't happy with me. When she's bored, she wants to "talk to somebody." This means that she wants me to call someone on the phone so she can "talk" to them, but she generally sticks her face in the couch and hides, or she nods when the other person asks them questions. She was asking to talk to Jake's mom for a whole day, probably because she wanted me to call and ask if Jake could play. Annika and I spend a lot of time in the dragon cave, which is whatever blanket is handy and we lay in wait for unsuspecting Daddy's to come and try to relax on the couch with the cozy "blanket." Ha! While inside the dragon cave, our conversation goes pretty much like this: "I love you princess." "I love you dragon." "Now, I'm dragon. You're princess." "Ok. I love you dragon." "No, Jacob's dragon." "Ok. I love you... wait, who are you?"
Annika has also developed the "endearing" habit of shushing us and saying "Jacob's sleeping" when we're saying something she doesn't want to hear.
We're still no closer to potty training and I'm not sure what to do about the binky, but she's otherwise learning and talking and articulating and sassing at a fast pace. Physically, she is growing a little. For instance, she doesn't fit into her 18 month clothes anymore!
Lastly, my little girl who will not eat ANYTHING, and this is only a slight exaggeration, likes "triceratops leaves." With ranch dressing. My kid, over whom I agonize about her meals, likes salad. And green pepper mustaches. And RADISHES!
(Triceratops are herbivores.)
Jacob is pretty close to walking, smiles with his WHOLE face, tries to bite my toe when it hangs off the couch and is very sweet, very patient and very lovable. He likes to be tickled, to ride horsey with Daddy, loves bananas and will eat anything I give him. He sleeps well, he travels well, he imitates sounds and singing, he can clap if you say "clap" even if you don't do the action, and he is very patient with an overbearing and mildly abusive sister.
We got a big, beautiful christmas tree for only $20 because we live in the christmas tree capital of the world. We've (I've) decorated the house and it feels cheery and festive and I'm inordinately proud of myself, because I'm not generally very good at decorating. (Its hard to go wrong with Christmas.)
I joined the gym so that I won't wallow in the Oregon winter pit of despair and so far, so good. We paid for the Kidscare package, 2 for 1, so the kids go to the "playplace" while I work out. Its a herculean task just to get us to the gym, so I'm feeling pretty proud.
John continues to be wonderful, if a little stressed. (Too much work, not his fault.)
Here are some of our recent pictures. See if you can pick out which ones Annika took. You'd be surprised.
Monday, December 14, 2009
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