Merry Christmas 2010

Anna-isms: "Christmas Edition"

Driving home from the mall the other day, we were listening to Christmas music on the radio. The song, "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" came on. After the line, "all of the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names" played, I heard Anna repeat it, with a questioning tone: "All of the other reindeer? Used to laugh and call him 'James'?"

I like that better, actually.

Christmas Lights

Poor Jack was sick all weekend long. Finally, in an effort to still do something fun, but also not infect others, we decided to take early baths, get in our comfy jammies (I participated in this too, and Anna was quite displeased with her Daddy that he wasn't in his jammies as well) ate frozen pizza for dinner and then hopped in the car (with our festive beverages in hand: strawberry milk for Jack, chocolate milk for Anna and hot chocolate for Mama and Daddy) to drive around, looking at Christmas lights. The cold front was just blowing in as we were driving around, so the temperature went from 78 to COLD pretty quickly. It was fun. The kids oohed and aahed over every house with even the most minuscule lights up--until it got quiet in the car and both kids were conked out.

The kids with their "lovies" all snuggled up and ready to see some lights!

Dear Santa

Anna and I were up early this morning, so we used our time wisely. We wrote her letter to Santa and then, took it directly to Macy's to put it in the mailbox. Thank goodness for Holiday store hours because where else would we be able to go at 7 am on a Saturday morning for entertainment?

Anna's letter, as dictated to me (artwork by Anna)

Holidays in full-swing

Our tree with most of our presents wrapped and tagged under it (thank you very much)

These are the delicious little goodies that Anna and I made this afternoon. You might recognize them when you open up your goodie bag from us in the coming weeks.

Adventures in Car Sickness

She looked so cute today--all dressed up for school.


Too bad she barfed all over herself, her car seat and the back of the driver's seat of our car in the parking lot of the zoo today, right as we were arriving for a fun after-school excursion (looks as though someone has inherited her mother's car-sickness gene! Good luck with that one, Anna.).


The best thing though, is that this dress is virtual camouflage for vomit stains. She insisted on continuing our zoo visit, so I wiped her down as best I could, stripped off her vomit-soaked tights and away we went to check out the new African Forest exhibit (which is terribly cool, by the way). She was a trooper but it's hard to say whether the large horseflies were there to visit the rhinos' backsides or my puke-encrusted daughter.

"Who me? Do what? All over my dress? Why, I never!"

*Also of note: This is our second zoo visit in the past month and a half, wherein one of my children has barfed all over themselves and the car on the way there. Interesting, right? And also disgusting. Our car has taken a real beating lately.