Happy New Year

Got a lot of cool stuff from Santa. Grama is taking us to Disneyland. Had a fun New Year staying up real late and playing w/ a cute 3 year old boy.

Check out this tub....

This is the bathtub in the hotel we stayed last weekend in Tucson!

Christmas is coming...

Shhhh...don't tell the kids

but we're going to DISNEYLAND!!!!!!

Made the arrangements yesterday. We don't go til end of February. It's our Christmas from Grama Jan.

So last night I ordered this adorable Tinkerbell satiny jacket for the girl and a Disney sweatshirt for the boy - he's too old for the cutesie Disney stuff. We will wrap those up for Christmas and tell them then.

It is really only the good thing about my job - the great deals.

Terrible 2's

I really can't imagine she will be worse at age 3. I am hoping that was just the case w/ DivaPrincess' kids as I haven't heard that from many others.

She was a total stinker today. I feel like all I did was put her in time out and yell today.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better, and if not at least I get to go back to work on Tuesday, she is usually good for Grandma.

Tonight

We went here http://www.asyouwishpottery.com/ and Rylee painted a picture frame for her Grandmas birthday on Monday. We are going back Monday morning to a Mommy and Me class to paint a hand print turkey plate for Thanksgiving.

Why I love the weekends...

Although not as lucky as full time stay at home Moms, I am luckier than most and have 3 days off every week - Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Daddy is usually working and on the weekends her brother is here, he is usually still in bed.

On these days my girl gets up earlier than I would like, but still lucky as she doesn't usually get up until 8:30 or later. We get her up, go potty, she grabs her 'blankelet' (not a typo) thats what she calls it) and climbs in bed w/ Mommy, she watches whatever is on The Disney channel and always wants to hold my hand while we lay there. It usually only lasts for about a 1/2 hour or so before the kid wants to eat or says 'time to get up Mommy'

It's probably the best part of my weekends!

Trick or treat pics

Trick or Treat...

or "I want some candy!" as was heard more often. Tinkerbell was so cute. Luckily there were no other girls Trick or Treating w/ us only 6 boys. No girls for my little girl to outshine! :) Kidding - kind of.

She really enjoyed herself and the boys were so good w/ her helping her up to the houses.

I will post some pics tomorrow...maybe.

nothing much

Little girl is sniffly and has been coughing some today. Cancelled out on the Mom's group Halloween party tomorrow. Sure hope she is better for Trick or Treating Monday night - when normal towns Trick or Treat. :)

We are all set w/ costumes. The kids are good to go. I am just a silly witch, not much different than any other day, but on Halloween I'll even wear the hat. Don't know what Mr. H is doing, he likes to wait til the last minute on stuff. The Boo (when Boo dresses as the monster in Monsters Inc.) costume is not getting done. That's some wasted money, but she is not co-operating on wearing what we have done so far, so we aren't continuing w/ it. I am making her a pretty sparkly bag to hold her candy in, got the stuff tonight and will probably get that done tomorrow night.

Tink

I sent you all the link to see all the pics. We had these done at Sears on Sunday.

A whole month has gone by

I haven't posted anything in a month. My daughter is great, she is 2 1/2 and I hope to GOD that it really doesn't get worse when she turns 3. She is a sweet, silly, dancing goofball, but man can she throw a fit, and everything else that she can get her hands on.

She knows the whole alphabet, and can mostly count to 20. She knows most parts of "You are my sunshine" - it is the only song she will let me sing. Anything else I try to sing, she says, loudly "No! Mommy - don't sing!"

She is getting the tough love treatment right now in the breaking of her pacifier use. She only uses it for naps and bedtime, but today I cut her off cold turkey! Naptime, was non existent. From 1:00PM to 6:00PM she alternated, between crying, talking to herself, and destroying her room. She never did get a nap. Tonight she cried out a whole lot more but still was aslwwp faster than she usually is, due to not having a nap today I am sure. Myself and/or Mr. H are off for the next 4 days, so I thought it was a good time as any to try and get her habit kicked before Grandma watches her Wednesday. Wish us luck. If I ever have another - I am going to try to not even use a stinkin pacifier! Dang hospital getting her all hooked on it at birth!

Stupid dance studio I called won't take her before she's 3 and didn't have any recommendations on who might.

This is what she will be for Halloween.......

New do!

Can't believe she actually sat still long enough for me to do this tonight.....

Hangin' with Daddy

This was the fun that happened today while I was sleeping....

Weird things people search for

Checking on the stats, this blog has had some people come here by the things they are searching for.....

1. From Florida "girl passed out"
2. From Ohio "kiss her feet if"
3. From Georgia "girl passed out"
4. From Asia "kiss her feet"
5. From Washington DC "little girl wearing floaties" this person actually stayed on the blog for 5 1/2 minutes.

I guess the people looking for kiss my feet and girl passed out weren't interested. Pervs!

Budding artist

Budding artist, originally uploaded by the great kris.

The new easel we got at IKEA yesterday. Has a chalkboard on one side, a white board on the other, a bar in the middle to hold her roll of paper and a tray for supplies. She loves it!

sleepy time

sleepy time, originally uploaded by the great kris.

She has taken to 'reading' before bedtime.

My first Docs

See my new boots? They are fun to dance around and stomp in. Then I need to take a rest!

Going shopping

Yesterday at work, one of my co workers said he had a 50.00 Gap gift card he never used. I jokingly said "You should give that to me then and I can get my daughter some cute clothes"

Next thing I know it comes sailing over my cubicle wall and he goes "here you go, I'm never gonna use it" He is my new best friend.

Pee pee in the potty

She finally is wanting to go potty. Won't use her potty seat that I just had to have. The Royal Throne. What a waste. She uses her little squishy seat insert that has rubber duckies on it to match the bathroom.

She went 4 times today. I got a little book and some stickers and she gets to put a sticker on the page for the day everytime she goes. We still aren't to the point where she will actually tell me she needs to go, but we'll get there.