Poor Allie

So, those innocent stocking holders in the Santa picture of my last post are actually disguised forehead gashers. I think back and wonder why I even put them up with a toddler in the house? Such a horrible parent, I guess, at least I feel horrible. :(

On Sunday, we had to take Allison to Instacare after she pulled one down on her head. I was standing right next to her too... Luckily she didn't need stitches and they were able to Durabond glue her back together. She's not off to a good start though since is the second gash incident in her lifetime & she's not even 2 yet. I'm afraid it's probably not her last either with the way she moves.

My favorite things my kids said this Christmas

My kids are always making me laugh. There are many times a day when Dave & I say to each other that we wish we could freeze them at the age they are because they are so much fun... Don't get me wrong, there are definitely the times when I wish I could go to the bathroom without some one trying to knock the door down (is just one time too much to ask?) or go one day without them fighting over the same toy or have just few minutes of silence, I could go on and on. However, since it's Christmas time and all, let's focus on the cute stuff.

Like I said earlier, my kids are fun. I know I'm bias, but thought I'd share a couple of my favorite things my kid's said/did this Christmas season.

Matthew:

We went to Disney World and he was able to meet a BUNCH of characters. He started wishing them Merry Christmas. He said that he had to wish them Merry Christmas since we couldn't call them on the phone on Christmas.

We were decorating the Christmas tree and he got all excited. He said, "I found birthday candles for Jesus!"

He woke me up in the middle of the night screaming 'Mom!'. Not sure why...but I'm sure it's not really the reason he told me. He said that he wanted to tell me that I'd been a good girl that night & wanted to give me a hug.

Allison:

I was playing with some settings on my new camera (thanks hubby!) and caught this shot. Not the best picture since I was playing with my settings, but Allison said this after I took it. "Harley tried to eat me."

Speaking of Harley, when we got back from our trip Allison got out Matthew's camera and was playing with it. She'd point it to Harley and say, 'Harley, look at Allie. Smile. Say Cheese!'... OK, so I must have said that to her a lot on our trip...

The kids caught Santa delivering presents to our house on Christmas Eve right after they got into bed. They were both SO excited. Allison woke up the next morning saying 'I see Santa. Santa bring me presents!' Matthew was excited that somehow Santa found his big red bag that he'd left at Matthew's Papa & Grandma's house earlier that night. He said that the bag must be magic and can fly like Santa's reindeer.


I hope that all of you had a great Christmas. It is one of my favorite times of the year.

Christmas already!

So, I finally updated my blog to be Christmas looking instead of Fall! I'm only a month behind... This month has been really fun & incredibly busy. We just got back from an awesome vacation to Florida and the Carribean. I'll post about it when I get caught up with work! The kids did get to see Santa at Disney World. Thought I'd post a couple of pictures. Matthew was such a good brother & showed Allison that Santa wasn't scary. They both told him what they wanted, but none of us have a clue that Allison told Santa...