Christmas 2010

Christmas this year was an absolute delight!

It is so magical to experience the holiday through the eyes of your children.

This is our one happy picture we have of Miss Sadie on Christmas eve, her fever came back full force at my Grandma's Christmas party. She was pretty miserable.

My cousin Gus was so sweet and held Sadie all night long. She had her hypnotized by rubbing her tummy and she zonked out.

Oh, the excitement!


Playing the traditional candy game at Grandma's house.

Mya had a grand time playing with grandpa; first thing she grabbed the Hot Tamales.

Mom! I can't believe you are making me pose for a picture when there are all these presents.

Mya got a very special letter from Santa. He explained that a little elf came to the North Pole and let him know that her puppy Max got lost and since she had been such a good girl they had been working in their workshop to make her a new Max.

(If you don't remember Max, here's the story. )

She was so excited!

She squeezed him and loved him and then ran to her room and threw him in her bed. Because duh that's where Max lives.

Grams and grandpa came over Christmas morning to see what Santa Clause brought.

Miss Mya is absolutely smitten with her uncles.

When you asked Mya what she wanted for Christmas she would reply, 'Meno, and a gun to shoot deers.'

Nothing says peace on earth and brotherly love like a Christmas wet willie.

The ladies got a fantastic assortment of movies from Nanna and Papa. Aunt Mallory got them adorable PJs and is promoting their bilingual skills. She gave us Green Eggs and Ham and I love you Forever en Francais.

Sadie spent most of the morning sleeping but after her fever broke she was her usual smiley self.

The girls lovin' their Nanna.

Cody totally surprised me this year. We usually shop together so there aren't too many surprises but he got me this year. We have been without a printer since right after we graduated. That is no longer the case. He surprised me with a shiny new printer. Thank you love!

Then we went to Grams and Grandpa's house and the spoiling continued.
Uncle K and Tyson know this little lady well and indulged her Ariel needs with a snugly new blanket and shirt.

Playin' with the 'Tato Head' that Santa Clause brought Grams.

Ty, Me, K and Sadie

Cody got a pair of snowshoes and I got a Kindle, which I am so excited about.

I always have a fun time trying to figure out what to give Uncle K, he appreciates stuff that is just a little bit different. Examples; old Jazz shirts, anything with wolves, vintage/savers finds so when he saw this Captain EO shirt on our Disneyland trip but didn't buy it 'cause he was having a cheap moment, I knew that it needed to come for Christmas.

Cody also passed down this fabulous wolf tie which he had been wearing since high school. I'll be honest, I was OK seeing it leave his closet.

The weeks before Christmas Mya had been spending a lot of time playing underneath the high chair. She kept telling me she was in her clubhouse. So Grams got her a princess clubhouse of her very own.

Daddy even crawled in to check out the new digs.

Sweet Sade was content to just hold her present.

Mya was also very excited about Sadie's Christmas present. I've had to keep an eye on her since she tries to muscle her way between her and the toy.

Hanging out with Grandpa and Ty playin' with her awesome new toy.

Merry Christmas to all! And to all a good night!

Thursday Picture 35

(35 Weeks Old)

Our sweet Sadie is finally back to her smiley growling self again after a long week of battling a rotten cold/flu bug. She is doing much better sitting up by herself and loves to swat and play with all the new toys that she got for Christmas. Her fine motor skills are improving; she can pinch those little puffs and shove them in her mouth like nobodies business. Which also means that she has begun being my own personal vacuum cleaner, finding the minute specks left on my floor.

The Gom-Boo

Gom-Boo ( noun: Sickness. To feel yucky. We've had the gom-boo at our house.)

We have been doing a lot of resting at our house the past few days. It started Saturday night around midnight. Mya woke up gasping and wheezing. She had been totally fine when we put her to bed and now she was breathing super fast and retracting (breathing so hard that the skin was sucking back up between and under her ribs) She was upset because she couldn't breathe and that was making it worse. I was having an internal conflict between emotional mom and nurse mom. Nurse mom was trying to assess the situation, listen to her lungs with a stethoscope and all the while emotional mom is screaming 'holy crap what is going on with my baby!!'

So after a few minutes emotional mom and nurse mom compromised and took her into see the ladies on the L&D unit. (There were no patients at the time, so no risk of contaminating new mommies or babies) I sort of thought she might have croup, but I had never heard what it sounded like or had any experience with it. So I just wanted to make sure everything was alright. We tried to monitor her oxygen saturation but she wouldn't hold still long enough; she was still pretty livid about not feeling well. Her respiratory rate had slowed a little after we sat there a while and she calmed down. I was really lucky and one our respiratory therapist buddies came down and gave her a listen. He confirmed our suspicions of croup and told me to bundle up and spend some time outside. It was amazing how quickly those therapy sessions on the balcony helped so we could all go back to sleep. A few days later, all is well and all we are left with are some yucky cold symptoms.

A few days later the gom-boo visited miss Sadie; fever, cough, runny nose, vomiting, the whole nine yards. She and I spent a couple nights watching a lot of food network. One night I was so exhausted I lay her between Cody and I in bed and we all finally fell asleep, Sadie with one hand on each of us. It was so sweet, she just need some lovin'. It was so sad to hold her limp little body and see her little face when she would look at you with eyes that asked 'What's happening to me mommy? I don't like this.' She is still not one hundred percent but at least she is smiling and keeping food down (heaven forbid we loose any cheek mass)

(34 Weeks Old)

So thank you gom-boo for visiting our house. I appreciate you helping build some immunities in my children and that I now know what the croup sounds like but feel free to post pone your next visit for as long as you like.

Thursday Picture 33

33 Weeks Old

This week has brought a new 'happy' noise to our household. I think Cody described it the best when he said it sounds like an alligator hissing. It is the funniest guttural sound that she projects from the back of her throat, I can't help but laugh every time she does it. Some babies squeal in delight, well our little one hisses.

If you really want to hear her get going, bring a kitty in the room; instant excitement.

Reflection

Reason's I'm in a love/hate relationship with these books.

Well, any series of books for that matter.

~ I can't put them down. It's book 'crack' I tell you! They are always in the back of my mind. I keep wondering when I will be able to take my next 'hit', hoping the girls will sleep just a little longer than usual so I can read just a few more pages.

~I am far less productive than I should be. My spare time becomes reading time.

~ I get way too attached to the characters. I find myself rooting for their success and even shed the occasional tear.

~I am a hopeless romantic, pretty much I'm instantly sucked into those plot lines and want to know who will choose whom, will they get together, what does their future hold. Yes, I am kind of pitiful.

~I couldn't wait to get to the last book to find out how everything was going to turn out. But then, the closer I got to the end I couldn't stand the thought of it being over. I felt kind of empty the day after I finished, had to go through my 'withdrawal'.

I'm on the search for my next fix so if any of you have any suggestions let me know.

Thursday Pictures 31 & 32

31 Weeks Old

Uncle McKay is responsible for this week's Thursday picture.

(Which actually didn't get snapped until Sunday since Momma was workin' Wednesday and Thursday so we didn't see each other.)
We were on our way to have 'K' take our family pictures and he started snapping fun pics of the girls in the car, and when this one came up he suggested that it could be a Thursday picture. Couldn't agree more!

32 Weeks Old

Little Miss Sadie has been getting so big lately. Eating big girl food, sitting up better, getting up on her knees scaring me that she's going to think about crawling sometime soon. It's amazing how quickly they grow up. Oh, how I love you Sadie girl!!

Playin' in the Snow

Mya has been wanting to play in the snow ever since it arrived on Sunday. I kept putting her off since she didn't have any snow boots or any shoes that I wanted to let get soaked. So Monday we headed off to 'Karget' (Target) to get her some pink snow boots which she insisted on wearing that entire evening. She finally got her wish today and we spent the afternoon playing in the snow.


We did a lot of this today. She would tell me, 'Get some snow momma. Now, frow it in da air'! This game never seemed to get old, she would play or march around and then stop and instruct me to throw some more snow.

She marched around singing 'Following the Leader' from Peter Pan, and 'Once there was a Snowman'.

Me and my little sweetie, squinting in the sun.

Sadie Ladie got bundled up and supervised. She was pretty entertained by her sister, when Mya was out of sight she would start to fuss . But, once I turned her chair so she could see Mya again she was just fine.

Of course we had to make a snowman. I thought I might get away with not having facial accessories but I was wrong. We had to find some eyes and a nose. So we looked around until we found some rocks for the eyes and an icicle for its nose. Mr. Snowman lasted long enough for me to snap a few pictures and then she had a great time knocking him over.

Why Hello Mr. Snowman, how are you doing?

What a great afternoon watching Mya play, I love listening to her talk to herself. Often I wonder what is really going on in her little mind, seeing and doing all these things must be so fun and new for her. It also is a fantastic way to get out some toddler wiggles. Yay for snow!