A Tight Spot.

Chad spent most of yesterday with Hannah, playing with all the new toys she got for Christmas. He took her out to McD's for dinner and she helped him grocery shop. After they got home, they decided to play with her new Dora Explorer Playhouse. For some reason that I will NEVER understand, Chad thought he could make it through the tunnel. This is what happened. Now, when I entered into this, he'd already been stuck for like 15 minutes. I grabbed the camera and filmed Hannah trying to save him....I was laughing so hard I thought I was going to pee my pants! I can't remember the last time I laughed to the point of tears. In the end, I had to put the camera down and assist in the efforts....Chad was getting hot in there and awfully frustrated!

Catching Up

So, Christmas is officially over...and I'm officially over Christmas. It was great...we had a fantastic time visiting everyone...opening gifts....eating good food...opening more gifts...music, lights...all the wonderful holiday things. But enough is enough. Frankly, I'm tired of the clutter...and I'm ready to rip my tree down. It's actually starting to stink. I think it smells like a poopy diaper, but Chad swears it's the Christmas tree. And since I've searched the room high and low for any dirty diapers, I'm beginning to agree. Our tree smells like it's over Christmas too. The trash pick-up won't take trees until Jan. 7th, so I think we'll be hauling it to the dump ourselves.
Chad has this entire week off, which is GREAT! He plans to spend the whole week catching up on unfinished/un-started projects around the house.
On a totally different note- I have been to the movies 3 times in the past 2 1/2 months!...truly a record for me. Anyway, on Saturday, Liz and I went to see Marley and Me. I didn't realize we'd be crying through most of it! Really good movie, and I'm NOT a dog person. Me seeing that movie was probably the best thing that's ever happened to Dave. After the movie, I actually missed him! He got lots of love from me when we got home.....I even got a little crazy and let him lay with me on the couch. Dave may be obnoxious, stinky, and loud- but he loves us- and he's a sweet dog.
Chad's parents have a Bishon Freise (sorry- no idea how to spell that). Her name is Stella and she's a little white puff ball. Hannah had a blast with her yesterday- Stella kept giving her kisses and making her laugh. I love this picture of them sitting together.

Our Christmas trip so far...

We had a very nice Christmas Day yesterday. Hannah woke up and asked if Santa had come- then downstairs she noticed that all the cookies we'd left for Santa and his riendeer were gone. She said "Santa ate those cookies all up!" Then she asked where the cup of milk was- I realized that I'd stuck it in the sink after drinking it- so I told her that Santa was tidy and cleaned up after himself :) She was in awe when she saw her stocking stuffed with goodies and she LOVED her Dora Explorer tent/tunnel. She kept saying "Look what Santa brought for me!" After we opened gifts, we loaded everyone up in the car and began the 4 hour drive to Virginia Beach. The girls did great on the drive- Sadie slept most of the way, and Hannah snacked and watched her new DVD's.

Hannah and Sadie had a whole new slew of gifts to open when we arrived at my parents house in VB. Hannah helped play "santa" and distributed the gifts- and also helped rip them open :) Everyone seemed to like thier handmade scarves....and I'm sure they will wear them ...everyday...

Sadie is not sleeping well at all- she has a runny nose and is teething hard core! Hannah woke up last night around midnight and wanted me to sleep with her, so I had to sleep with her knees in my back for 2 or 3 hours until she was sleeping deeply enough for me to pry myself out from under her and sneak back into my bed. I knew I wasn't going to get any sleep...I don't even try to fool myself anymore into thinking I may actually get a good night's rest.

Today we went to see "Yes Man" with Erin and Matt---laughed my butt off!! Jim Carey was hilarious in this one. It was very nice to get out and have some grown up time- eat Mexican for lunch and enjoy a movie. Tomorrow we're going to breakfast with some friends, and the maybe take Hannah down to the boardwalk in the afternoon. I'm heading to bed - maybe I can get a whole hour of sleep in before the sniffly baby wakes up!

Countdown Begins

I feel super busy this week with everything I'm trying to accomplish before Christmas Day. I'm officially done with all my shopping so I can cross that big one off my list! We're going to VA Beach on Thursday, so I'm trying the get the house in order, conquer Mt. Laundry, and make sure we have everything we need for our trip. Thank goodness for the teenage girl across the street who will be taking care of our zoo for us while we're gone. She's very responsible, and seems to actually really like our dogs (go figure)...and I'm sure she's happy to earn some holiday cash...so it's a win win! It's also my goal to make sure the van is packed by Wednesday night so all we have to do on Christmas morning is open presents, get dressed and roll out! I'm looking forward to our trip, but dreading it a bit as well- because I don't know how the girls will do as far as sleeping goes. The no sleep situation can make our trip seriously crappy. On the other hand, I could be pleasantly surprised and they might do great....ya never know! In any case- I'm excited to see family...it's just not Christmas without family!!!

Happy Saturday!

Oh the weather outside is frightful...but our day was pretty delightful. I took Hannah to Little Gym this morning. She hadn't been in two weeks (b/c of the plague that consumed us) and she was super excited. She was having such a blast all through the class, then right at the very end- before the final goodbye song- tragedy struck! One of the twin boys in her class, named Dash and Jag (trust me- the names are self-explanatory), decided to charge full speed at my child and send her flying backward onto her bottom. The father was totally preoccupied with the other twin and didn't' see it happen, so little Dashy (or Jaggy) kept right on running. Hannah picked herself up and started her hyperventilation cry. Some of the other parents and kids saw what happened and came over to console her. She cried through the goodbye song, but calmed down after we left the gym. Her teacher gave her some extra ladybug stamps and she was in a good mood again. On the way home from class, she brought it up in the car and said "Mommy, that boy pushed me away" "That wasn't nice!" I told her that he was just so excited and that he probably didn't mean to be so rough. Of course, in my head I was thinking ..."damn kid.., hope he trips on his shoelace and eats it!"...but good Moms don't say that out loud I guess :)
Later on, Hannah went down for a nap. I left Sadie with Chad and headed out into the holiday madness to get some Christmas shopping done. I must say, I'm very proud of my thrifty shopping today. I knocked out 3 people on my list for under 40$ at Old Navy!...Then went over to Target and got stocking stuffers for everyone. It was nice to get out and spend some time alone...even if i was exposed to the insane drivers that live in Winchester VA!
Tonight at bath time, Hannah and I were making silly faces...here are her best ones. Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

Today was Hannah's school Christmas program and she was spectacular! She belted out all the tunes- her teacher said she was the only one in her class that sang the whole way through. They sang Jingle Bells, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, and Away in a Manger. She could see me when she first marched into the fellowship hall and smiled and waved to us. She was VERY proud of herself and loved the attention/applause! Chad video taped the show, so that's much better than these pictures, but ya get the idea. What a proud moment as a parent to see your child sing for the first time in a christmas program! I can't believe she's actually old enough for me to start enjoying this sort of stuff. Becky's son, Max was in the program too- a few rows behind Hannah- with the "big kids" :) We were giddy with excitement watching them! They were all too cute!







I also wanted to post these pictures of Hannah's December art work from school. The hand/footprint angel is my favorite. I think it may need to be framed!

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