Doing Lately

Potato Baby

Princess Pea's first try of mashed potatoes:
Initial thoughts: Gross!
Verdict after many taste tests: Yummy!

Moment Captured

I was going through my pictures of Christmas for scrapbooking and just had to post this one. Princess Pea is looking at Mom and I thinking, "I don't know about this, are you sure this is the big guy?" And then click the pic was taken and a second later she looked at Santa and decided he was an imposter and started crying.

The Yuckies

This pic can't help but make me smile!
She's been sick this week - the kind of sick that makes Mommy clean up lots of different yucky messes. She's been sick before but not like this. It is hard when you can't tell her why she's not feeling good. But she is so sweet, even though she's sick. She is fragile and easily upset, but is quite good natured at the same time. I'm really lucky to have her.

Winter's here!

I'm so glad we took these pics of Princess Pea swinging when we did! The sun was setting and she just kept laughing wanting to swing forever. Now, after snowing all day, there's inches of snow covering the ground - winter is here.

We have just been snug as bugs in our home because first we had the flu and now we have colds. I am trying to disinfect EVERYTHING - from grocery carts to telephones because I'm sick of being sick!

P's new thing is "the pointer". She has now realized that she has separate digits. And she uses them to point quite vaguely at everything she finds of interest.

Earlier we attended the ward Christmas party bowing out early because of P's bedtime. John's up playing Xbox with "the guys" which mostly means across the states UofM friends. I'm here doing my digiscrapping and watching tuts. Tucker looks out the window and occasionally barks under his breath at the offending Christmas lights. Basically, a peaceful night in for us!

Princess Pea's First Halloween

Here's pics of our house a la Halloween!
The witch on your right and the quilted pumpkin on your left are made by my Mom! I played with that pumpkin every Halloween when I was little and now PrincessPea will too. My favorite is the haunted house, cats and witches silhouettes we made for the outside decor!
Our Halloween started early as Hubby got ready for work in h work. PrincessPea and I enjoyed our morning cleaning and getting packed up to go visit Daddy at work. Believe it or not, but the whole morning consisted of dressing, breakfast, diaper chais costume - Evil Genius Mad Scientist. L3 always has a costume contest and Hubby's coworkers have a lot of fun dressing up fornges, clean up after breakfast, a few laundry loads, bottles, naptime, packing the diaper bag, getting costumes ready, finally getting me ready, waking up from naps, more diapers, costume change and packing car with stroller, diaper bag, baby, dog, crutches, me...oh, yeah go back into the house and get cell phone and turn off all lights...out of house time: 12:15pm. Only to realize the car was on E for EMPTYof gas! Arrgh! Now this wouldn't be so bad usually, but when you have been off your feet for 6 weeks there are a few difficulties like: not knowing where my credit card was placed after being borrowed to run an errand for me. But, luckily I had $20 cash! But now I had to not only get in and out of the car with my big booted sore feet but also figure out someway to pay inside with PrincessPea not left alone in the car! Needless to say, I did it. But let's just say Hubby is in charge of keeping the cars on F for FULL until I heal completely from now on.
We did make it to Daddy's work though. And all of his coworkers came trouping out (because of the tight security, 8 month olds are not allowed inside.) All the coworkers were all dressed up soooo great, but the best was the 1986 David Bowie from Labrinth costume! (Please imagine how a sock roll allowed a completely acurate in the downstairs region!) Classic. I'll try to get a pic to post. The coworkers are the best and so sweet. Despite all our challenges to get there, it was really nice to have somewhere to go and visit for a bit.
Then we left them to go back to work.
And we packed up our menagerie and headed for home. When we got there, AuntieSh and Grandma had stopped by to say, "Hi". CuzKate called and suggested we go out to lunch, so we all met at the Citrus Grill. LilL has grown up so much. Pea sat in the high chair and was distracted from eating crayons and paper by using my keys as a rattle and using a soup spoon as a baton. It was a nice visit.
Back home and then not long after Hubby arrived home too. We did a brief visit to UncleCh. and AuntLi's. Then mosied home for the Trick or Treaters and homemade taco soup (great easy recipe - remind me to post it!). We gave out handfuls of treats to about 30 treaters. PrincessPea the Zebra loved seeing all the people. And Tucker didn't bark once at the strange monsters prowling our neighborhood!