Only four days left! Now is everybody ready for Christmas? I feel like I've been up until about 12:30 or later every night trying to get presents wrapped, preschool goodies assembled, toys for Christmas assembled (trying to wrap them already assembled and with batteries ready to go this year- does anyone else do this or am I weird?)house cleaned things, and just things done for the holidays! 
(Love Gabe's face here)
The boys are doing good. Caleb is definitely my happy boy. Gabe is Mr. Moody. When he's happy you think, "I have the funniest, cutest kid in the world." But when he's mad you think, "I was a pretty good kid. Why is God punishing me with this one?" (I blame Josh. It must be HIS genes.) As I was exiting Walgreens yesterday with a screaming, temper tantrum boy yelling and standing up in the cart, "I WAAAANT A TREEEAAAT!!!!" and people were peeking out of the isles to see this horrible child... I was just thinking, "Don't be that mom who loses it and starts spanking her child and screaming at him in the store...just get out of her VERY quickly...." I'm sure none of you have ever been through this. :) 
Caleb was just smiling in the front seat of the cart the whole time. It was like, just ammusing to him. They are so night and day. Do I dare chance it with a third one or just consider the score even and be done? I don't know.
Anyways, Gabe is a good kid most of the time. He is in two preschools now and it seems like he's growing up so fast. I had him in one Tues and Thurs mornings and he loved it. Then he got screened for his speech and qualified for a program that meets Tues and Thurs afternoons so besides his lunchtime when he's home from 11:30 to 12:15, he's in school from 9:00 to 3:20 when the little bus brings him home! He usually is sleeping when I get him off the bus. However, last week it was Josh who was sleeping when the bus arrived at our house. I was visit teaching and got a call from the bus driver wondering why no one was at our house to get our son off the bus. I, of course, freaked out wondering if Josh had to take Caleb to the emergency room or was lying on the floor dead of a heart attack because surely something serious MUST have happened! I sped home as fast as I could only to peek in the deck window to see Josh passed out on the couch (blankies and all, movie still running) taking a little snoozer. When I finally located the bus at her next stop and rescued Gabe he had decided to go to sleep himself since apparently, his family didn't want him. Then when I put him in my car he groggily asked, "Why you didn't come out and get me? No one at our house come and get me?" I told him to ask Dad that when we got home...
That's a story Josh will be embarrassed about me posting but I just had to. :) He's a great, involved dad 99 percent of the time. He just had been feeling sick that day and must've decided he'd take a quick nap... guess he'll set an alarm next time.
Well, that's all for now! We'll definitely have a white Christmas here! 
Here's a pic of Caleb shoveling (yes that's my pink scarf.) We put'em to work early. Merry Christmas!
Monday, December 21, 2009
Merry Christmas!
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Wow, it is almost Christmas time! Anyone completely done Christmas shopping yet? If you are I hate you. Jk... This year Josh and I said we were doing a simplified Christmas. The boys would each get one big present and like, two small ones and then their stockings. Well... I had those two big presents done a while ago (a smart cycle for Gabe and a Cars tricycle-ish ride-on toy for Caleb) but then I started shopping for their little presents and now I realized they are getting MANY "small presents." I think that people who try to get shopping done early in an attempt to spend less just end up shopping continually between October and December and just end up spending MORE. (That's speaking from experience...) I blame my mother. Her shopaholic ways must be genetic. I remember being a kid and having so many presents my sister and I would build ourselves castles made out of presents and sit inside them while we started opening. I really wasn't usually spoiled. My mom just loved Christmas and always went a little crazy. So anyways....hopefully I will stop shopping soon and just be done!
I still don't have many good pictures to post. I am trying to buy the perfect digital camera. So far I have bought and returned a GE, a Nikon Coolpix, and the one I have in my possession (that I am returning tommorow) is a Fujifilm. I am going a little crazy. We have owned 3 Kodaks since we got married and they have all died on us - the first one lasted the longest, 2 years, and then about one per year. So, I loved the quality of the pictures but I can't handle them dying anymore! So if anyone has any suggestions please let me know. Here's a couple funny pictures of Caleb trying to drink from a straw and getting all wet. He's such a funny kid. It's his 18 month birthday today! Happy Half Birthday Caleb!
