Christmas 2007

Hello!!! Merry Christmas! We had a wonderful week. One set of my in-laws are in town. They got here Sunday and aren't leaving until next week sometime. The kids have been having fun! I put captions on the pictures, but for some reason I can't get them to show up here. JJ and Maddie love to take baths. They recieved new towels for Christmas, but Maddie just can't seem to figure out what is on JJ's head! JJ gots lots of things with wheels on them! He loves to drive around his cars/trucks/trains. We got a bucket of snow dumped on us last Sat and it is still here! It was nice to have a white Christmas after not having one last year. And you can see JJ is still putting things in rows. We got a box of oranges, grapefruit and lemons and he had a blast with them. I don't have a picture of it up yet, but JJ got a wonderful rocking chair from grandma and grandpa that looks so cute!

Who do I look like?

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

JJ absolutely LOVES PB&J's. It must be some sort of mandatory childhood love. He'll eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner every single a day! And some days he'll eat two at at time. At least there is some protein in the peanut butter, right? And can't I count the jelly as a fruit????

John says "What time is it?" and JJ's response is "Peanut Butter Jelly Time!" He then runs around the house screaming this over and over.

Pretties

Maddie got a new "pretty" in the mail yesterday! It is the most adorable thing! I wish I could go back to Michigan and shop for some more.

Our New Pet

Well, not really. Apparently we have the most comfortable front porch furniture. This cat is always sleeping on it when I get up in the morning. There seems to be two stray cats wandering the base. The other one is a tabby and tailless and John thought that was very strange.

Maddie

I found this photography studio in town that does special kids photo shoots every month. This month one of the specials appealed to me so I took Maddie in! You don't get to pick which shot they print for you, but I figure they'll do a good job. They want you to come back, don't they?

Random Pictures

Emeregency Room Fun

JJ thought it a good idea to drink the rest of the Benadryl this morning. Luckily there wasn't a whole lot left, but enough to be concerned. I called poison control. She wanted me to call 911 since I didn't know where the nearest hospital was. They preferred to send the troops out. Holy cow. The fire department showed up, the base police, and then the ambulance. They figured he'd be ok, but to be on the safe side we loaded the kids up and drove over to the ER (after they gave us directions--and we still got lost). JJ was so unthrilled to be there. He didn't want the hospital wrist band on and screamed for five minutes because that was on his wrist. Then we had to weigh him and that was another screaming match. As well as getting the thing taped to his toe to measure his vitals. After all that we sat in the room for a while. Luckily there was a TV and it just so happened that his favorite show was on, Little Einstein's. After an hour or so we got the clear to head home.

(The only reason I got this picture was John happened to bring in his cell phone. I looked at JJ and told John this would be a picture perfect moment, belly hanging out, legs spread, eating raisins; too bad I don't have my camera in the diaper bag. At which point whipped out the good ol' cell phone. What would we do without those things?)