11.30.12

 When my kids sleep, they sleep HARD.  No wonder the poor guy keeps having nightmares that he's falling!

Tomorrow we start up the whole Elf on the Shelf thing again, so I set everything up for tomorrow.  I saw this great idea for a North Pole Breakfast on Pinterest - the elf brings breakfast with him the first day he arrives.  I made up some little felt sleeves for their sippy cups, we have powdered donuts, mini cinnamon sugar muffins and we may make pancakes or cinnamon buns tomorrow morning.  Oh!  And chocolate milk, of course.  I thought hot chocolate would be great, but I don't think Wyatt could be convinced to drink it.

11.26.12

This is why you don't see many pictures of Paige lately.  She has NO TIME to be looking at the camera.  Way too much going on.  So, no matter how much, "Paige!  Sweetie!  Cheeeeese!  Look!  Hi!  Paige!  Paaaaaige!  PAIGE." I do, I still mostly get pictures of the back or side of her head.

 

Found this sweet picture when cleaning up my memory card.

And sometimes, that's okay. :)

11.19.12

A.K.A. My Monday night iPhone photo dump:

At the tree lighting ceremony on Friday night - they had a bonfire and Wyatt loved it!

I made gingerbread scented play dough on Saturday.  It smells SO good - Wyatt liked pretending that he was making cookies.

Out for a walk on Sunday afternoon.  It was a beautiful day!

Hanging out, watching a new Veggie Tales DVD. Paige LOVES the theme song.

Colouring her picture for the "About Me" page to go in her Operation Christmas shoebox.  She's surprisingly dextrous, she loves to colour.

Just being goofballs.

11.15.12

Last night Wyatt and I went to Dollarama to pick items for our Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes.  He seemed to enjoy choosing specific things for "the boy".  Most of the conversation was, "I think the boy will like...." but there was a lot of, "And I will like...."  He did a good job though, no fussing when I only let him pick one thing to take home (a Kinder Egg).  We just need to add some info about Wyatt and Paige to the boxes and drop them off at the tree lighting ceremony in town tomorrow.
We are going to attempt Photos With Santa.  Wish me luck.

11.12.12

 

I've been lousy at posting since I went back to work at May, but it's been even worse lately.  I do apologize (especially to my mother!).

These last few weeks have been hectic.  Every morning it's a rush to get us all out of the door on time (never happens), then I get to work and am swamped allll day.  I know that it's all part and parcel in training for a new position, but the inability to just sit back for 2 seconds to gather my thoughts is wearing on me.

We've been getting ready for Christmas - I think shopping is pretty well over and done with.  I found a used artificial tree for $20, and it was the best $20 I've spent lately, ha ha.  We have the worst luck keeping real trees alive, I feel like we've tried all the tricks out there.  Last year we couldn't even turn the lights on the week of  Christmas because the tree was totally dead and I was concerned it would burst into flame.

I decorated a few cakes this weekend for the salon that my hairdresser works at.  It was their annual open house, and they were celebrating 10 years.  She's actually been doing my hair for 13 years (since I ran in the Corn and Apple Queen Pageant), so when they approached me, I agreed for that reason alone. ;)

We started a Biggest Loser competition at work - I actually somehow got roped into leading it - I'm hoping this will be the push I need to make a change.  I did good this week, tracked every single thing and worked out every other day...and drinking a LOT of tea instead of snacking in the evenings.

I am really looking forward to the Christmas season - I'd love suggestions for explaining the real Christmas story to Wyatt.  We're not church goers (not because we're not believers), and it seems like anything to do with praying/church seems to weird him out a bit (I get the praying thing - the monotone chanting of people with their eyes closed might seem a bit unsettling if it's not done every day in your house).  We have a Baby Bible that has the Christmas story, but it's only one page.

11.7.12

I had this great idea tonight, to set up the small Christmas tree in the basement with the kids.
Me: "It'll make the cutest pictures of the kids decorating the tree!"
Kids: "No."
Paige was totally freaked out by the tree for some reason.  Hopefully this means she won't destroy the real  one (and by real, I mean not mini, thinking of doing a fake tree this year because we routinely kill our Christmas trees the  week before Christmas).
Wyatt put most of the ornaments on the same spot, and then cried until I took a picture of the huge Tigger toy with the tree.
Not exactly as I had pictured it...

11.3.12

Last night Wyatt had a sleepover with his cousins at Josh's parents'. Paige did not know what to do with herself, so she decided to wreak havoc. This is how the past 24 hours went:
Me: "Paige, stop. No! Stop it. Put that down! Get off the chair. Put that back. Get down. Stop it! No. No!! Paige!!!!!"
Don't be surprised if they name a hurricane after her.