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Feeding the Swans with Daddy.

Sad...b/c kids think life needs to be one big party... I love this shot, though.
Downtown Atlantic dressed up for the holidays..
More Swan feeding fun.
We took the kids to a couple of parks Friday afternoon.
Leaf throwing fun....this is right before the sad face. It was the result of the leaf fun ending.
Closer shot of the town all dressed up. It's really quite a pain to take pics of Christmas lights. Took probably 20 shots to get 2 decent ones.
"Helping" Grandma in the kitchen. Mostly eating the grapes, but she really enjoyed it.
Playing dress up with Whitney at Aunt Jessica's house. Lovin those earrings!
And more dress up fun below with the scarf Grandma made her and some necklaces.

I'm a cup half full kind of person....

usually so I show most of the happy good times on here. Our life is filled with happy good times, but there are moments of insanity where I want to strangle the kid. She's thrown 2 "outta control" fits. I kind of just have to wait out the insanity and make her about as miserable as she is making me. I'd like to get at least one of those on video so I can show her what a little toot she can be at times. Right now when she's in a "mood", I get a lot of "I don't want to____" As long as she does whatever it is that she doesn't wanna...then I don't make a huge deal of it.

My point is that I am using my blog, journals, and scrapbooks to document her childhood and I want to be accurate. I want her to know what kind of kid she was and what our day to day life was like. Mom and I were talking and she has forgotten so much of our stuff from when were little. It just happens so fast and memories fade if there is nothing to document them.

OK so today was one of those "day to day" days. I think the highlights of the day include taking a bubblebath, watching a movie, ordering some pizza, and playing Caillou games on the computer together. Besides that she had her day of watching some shows, playing on her slide, and in her room. I did laundry, vacuumed, unloaded dishwasher, and scrapbooked a few pages.

Today she was a sweetheart. We'll see which personality I get tomorrow. ;)

Too cute to boot!

A girl just needs a coat and matching boots! (see slideshow below)

We've been busy, busy. We took advantage of the weather last week and went to the park a couple times. Saturday evening we spent the evening with the fam for Uncle N's birthday. Here is a pic from that. Nice hat! Somebody has the big head from turning the big 5-0 I guess.

Been out Christmas shopping today, but managed a quick stop by the park. We had a pretty good shopper today for a 2 year old. We're taking it easy tomorrow.

Not a lotta new....just living the good life of the sahm... :-) Scrappin, shoppin, cookin, eatin, sleepin, cleanin, foldin, talkin, lovin, huggin, kissin, and thanking God for each day that I get to do it all over again.

Cute in the boots!

OK-LA-hO-Ma

I get this look a lot, especially if I ask her to perform. I've been told she's good at the "looks" like her Mama. Heard a song yesterday about a little boy watching his daddy and wanting to be just like him. It was so sweet. Made me think because I see her acting a LOT like me. I figure I need proof now, before rebellion hits. If what they say about your kid giving you back what you gave your parents, I may be a bit of trouble. Not too much, but some.

She broke our run of good sleeping. She had been sleeping in till after 10 am and hey i'm so not a morning person, so I'll take it. Today she was up around 6:30. I had to get up at 8 when her daddy left and take over. Wish me luck on the sleep tomorrow. We went to see the Santa Clause 3 with Mamaw. It was so cute. I think her favorite part was the end where they played 2 songs (during credits) and since we had the theater to ourselves, I let her dance in front of the big screen. It was a sweet moment.

Before we left, I was playing around and got a few cute minutes on video.

Oklahoma video clip

That's all I have for now.....