I Love...

Babies. Baby giggles. Watching t.v. with all three kids laying on top of me. Sunny days. Chocolate Chip cookies. Toothless smiles. Playing on the beach at sunset.  Apple orchards. Good red wine. Flannel sheets. Being with friends and family. Fresh paint. The changing seasons. Sleeping in. Christmas lights. Magazines in the mailbox. Pedicures. Porches. Wrapping presents. A snowy night!!

Santa is Coming to Town!

The boys have all been busy writing their lists for Santa. This year they decided to cut pictures out of toy catalogues and paste them in their letter. Wow, we have had paper, glue, scraps, scissors, etc. all over!! I was glad when we finally mailed those letters! Of course we took them to the BR Fire Station where there is a real Santa Mailbox that goes directly to the North Pole. We are anxiously awaiting our response from Santa!!  We have been having lots of fun with the Elf on the Shelf!! He is always watching and always reporting to Santa!! It is fun to find him in the morning. He's had some pretty awesome hiding spots this year. If you don't have one get one now!! What a great Christmas Tradition he has become! http://www.elfontheshelf.com/ Thank you to my friend, c. that bought him for the kids years ago before he was popular like he is today!!
We made our gingerbread house, we are baking cookies, wrapped lots of presents and did a lot of shopping too! L went shopping at school and came home with a bag of things. He is doing a really good job of keeping it a secret! Last year he practically had all the gifts open by the time he got off the schoolbus! What a difference a year makes.

Last week we got our tree and decorated it! What a perfect day we picked for that! It was snowing all day and we were blarring Christmas carols and decorating! It got us all right in the mood!
Hope you are all having fun preparing for Christmas Day!!

Busy Days

I can't believe I haven't posted in days....
It has been a bit crazy around here, but a good crazy! Lots of fun getting ready for Christmas, watching the kids play hockey, getting bids for our house project and chasing Sean all over the place!
I promise to write more tomorrow!!!

Potty Talk!

So I wasn't sure about writing this, but my proud mommy moment has gotten the best of me...Yesterday, Sean (yes, he is only one year and three weeks old!) pooped and peed on the potty!! I can't contained my happiness!! I'm sure now I am jinxed forever, and he will be wearing diapers to kindergarten!! We shall see ;0)

The Lost Tooth That Got Lost!

Yesterday I sent L off to school with his tooth dangling by a mere thread. He didn't want it to fall out before he got to school! If you lose your tooth in school, you get a special tooth necklace from the nurse! Anyway, he came home overjoyed about losing his tooth in school!! We celebrated, had a snack, did homework and he needed to scoot out to religion school...and he insisted on taking the tooth. I gave him my two cents about bringing it, but there are certain things that are just not worth fighting about with my L.  Of course when I picked him up from religion, his tooth had gone missing...(go figure?!!)  L was hysterical to say the least! Without mentioning "I told you so", which was really hard to restrain, we went back into his classroom to search for the tooth! The floor couldn't be any dirtier by this time of the day, and it didn't help that it was a beige and white speckled color! This was literally like looking for a needle in a haystack. But none the less, we looked, and looked, and looked and looked more! No tooth. At this point, I was covered with dust and dirt from laying on the floor and S had eaten who knows what off the floor (God only knows he may have ingested the TOOTH!). Anyway, we gave up and went home hoping the Tooth Fairy would know where to bring the money once she found the tooth! Luckily, she knew exactly where to go!!

Another FIRST for Baby....

Firsts

These little feet took their first official steps today!!

xoxoxoxo