Jingle Bells Part II

To be fair to Josh, here's his version of Jingle Bells.
Merry Christmas everyone!!

Jingle Bells

Andrew learned how to sing Jingle Bells this year, and it's very cute!

Andrew loves to brush his teeth!!

Andrew is a kid that is quite aware of his dental hygiene. He's always the first to remind us that we need to brush our teeth...and this could be several times a day. We usually give him the kind of toothpaste you can swallow, but we've started to give Josh the kind you need to spit. Now Andrew thinks he needs to spit too, and it just cracks us up! He used to not be able to do it and would make this funny noise instead, but now he's getting better.

Rainy yucky afternoon with no nap

Today the weather has been yucky, and Andrew decided he was too big for a nap. About 3:30 I was going crazy so I decided to get out some paint. Of course with it being Christmas, I got out red and green paint. The most important lesson we learned from this project was that red and green paint make black (really dark purple...but the kids called it black) paint. They thought it was great fun to paint candy canes and gingerbread men black. And I was thinking that I could cut these out and hang them around the house...now that they're black, I think we'll call it good with just the painting experience and ditch the need to display them.

Mission Impossible: Teaching a Three Year Old to Keep Secrets

Every year I usually take Josh and Andrew with me to do my Christmas shopping for Darrin. I don't really enjoy taking them, but I'm a mom and that's just what mom's do. It's always worked out fine, but NOT this year. When I pick something out for Darrin I explain to Josh that it's a secret and we can't tell daddy what we bought. Well, Darrin comes home from work and immediately tells Darrin what we bought him and (whispering) says, "shhhh, it's a secret." Darrin knows just about all the presents that we've bought him. I just can't get Josh to understand that if it's a secret you don't tell anyone...Maybe next year if Darrin doesn't want to know what he's getting from me, he'll send me out on my own without the kids!!

Ultrasound Results....

IT'S A BOY!!!

Here's how it all went down....

We got in the room and the tech started the ultrasound. She promptly told us that it was a boy. Being a mom of two boys, I've learned what a boy "looks" like on an ultrasound, and I totally didn't see where she got boy from. We finished the rest of the ultrasound, and she was about to send us on our merry way...but I just couldn't believe it was a boy unless I saw it for myself...so I asked her to go back and show me the "boy part" and print off a picture of it. She did so, and now I know it is a boy! Darrin has been smiling all day, I'm excited...having three boys will be fun. I just want to get a girl sometime...We'll have to try again! But for right now I couldn't be happier!

My little stinker

I was working away on the computer while the kids were watching a movie. I wasn't really paying too much attention to what they were doing. I walked into the kitchen to make dinner and this is what I found.... a clothespin...
a open bag of chips that no long had a clothespin on it....
a open dishwasher with a bowl missing from it....
a bowl full of chips sitting next to a little boy....
And a little boy eating those chips on the couch in the family room....which by the way, eating at our house is to be done at the table in the kitchen...and I KNOW he knows this rule. I guess he was hungry and knew if he asked I'd say "no" because it was almost dinner time. That's my little stinker!!

Family Home Evening

Tonight for Family Home Evening we built a gingerbread train. Josh and Andrew's favorite part was definitely the frosting. They licked and licked frosting until I thought they were going to be sick. It went against everything I believe in to let them eat that much frosting, but I was trying to let them make some Christmas memories. That makes it okay, right??


Needless to say, they both took a bath when they were all done!

Ultrasound

Start the count down everyone!! I scheduled my mid-pregnancy ultrasound for December 12th at 10:20am. We will soon find out the gender of our new baby. Please vote on the poll and let us know what you think it's going to be!

Deck the Halls

Today we put up the Christmas tree. Josh loved sorting the branches by their letters.
Andrew was fascinated with the lights.
And laid down under the tree to read a book!
Josh loved to hang the ornaments on. We had to monitor where he put them...he liked hanging about 5 balls on one branch. He did a great job though! Now we can't get Andrew to leave the ornaments alone!!