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I forgot to mention the “closer” for our day yesterday. Qade was on an errand to get a diaper from his room after bath time. He did come back with the diaper, but also a very concerned look on his face and a confession, “Pee-pee on the floor.” Sure enough there was a little sprinkle and a puddle just in front of his changing table. Fortunately for ME he was communicating this to Dad which left me off the hook! Ha! I’ve been contemplating making him go bottomless for a few days when we begin potty training again, but don’t know if I have the stamina for it! We’ll see….

If you want to read the article I was referring to in the last post the words “this article” in the first sentence are a link. I don’t know why they aren’t showing up highlighted, but I honestly did put it in there. Night!

Today was the day I finally decided it was time to chop the mops. Part of this decision came when I happened upon Qade at breakfast happily wetting his fingers with his milk and running them through his hair. Ugh! Anyway, I’m still pretty intimidated by cutting hair, but I think with a little more practice I’ll be okay. These cuts were not stellar in ANY way, and I’m seeing “spots” that need some help still, and other spots that can’t be helped. Still it’s better than paying $7 a head to have someone else do it, I suppose. So here for your amusement is how it all played out in pictures.

Here is Qade’s before picture. They came out dark so it’s hard to see his hair anyway, but you can tell he’s pretty thrilled with his sucker. He got quite upset when it became covered in hair though. That was funny!

His mohawk after the clipping.

And my handsome Monkey!

Poor Myles. I had already started to wet his hair before I remembered to take a before pic.

Honestly it wasn’t THAT traumatic.

Awwww, handsome Monkey Too!

Well it’s done. I won’t have to worry about it again for another few months. Maybe by then it can be summer time and they can just be buzzed.

heard tonight from Qade. “Chill out, Mommy!” Unfortunately for him it was WAY out of context since he was responding to my instructions of, “Obey right away, Qade.” Naughty naughty. Fortunately his grandma who was present at the time of the little slip up did not laugh out loud as I’m sure she was very tempted to do. Fun times with vocal kids!

Hi everyone! Happy Saturday! I wrote a post yesterday, but it was actually more like a rant and my ever-level-headed hubby advised me not to actually publish it. So I took his advice and didn’t and it’s probably a good thing because I may still have readers. Ha! Not that any of that matters.
Today Stu and I did our first INSANITY workout. We did the “fit test” last night, and were both sore from that. Even so we dug in and got through the first intense cardio workout. I was burning myself out initially because I was trying to “keep up” with the instructor and all, and that’s just not a fair fight. I mean, those people have been through the program, know the moves and have built up speed. I have not…. yet! So I slowed down a bit and was able to keep going. It was still super intense. Even people who were doing the program on the DVD were “dropping out” of some of the circuits. Still we had fun. It’s lots of fun to do something like that together with Stuart. Keeps me going when I feel like stopping.
So, we’ll see what happens at the end of the 60 days! I was sneaking a peak at some of the other workouts and they look scary to me. Oh, and I did discover (no big surprise really) that I’m the world’s worst at push ups. Blah! I’ve always hated them. I must not be built for that particular exercise, but I’m gonna keep trying. Right now I’m already sore, so I can’t imagine how I’ll feel for tomorrow’s workout. I did feel really good after finishing today’s though, so that’s encouraging.
Anyway, hope you’re having a fantastic weekend! Toodle-oo!

My amazingly talented, not daunted by layers in the pixlemator program, hubby of mine, created a “button” for my Project 365 blog. It is LIME green and should appear on the Right of your screen. Really, you can’t miss it. So if you ever want to see my photo blog just click that button and like magic you will be transported. Once there if you want more info on a particular photo just click it. Isn’t technology amazing?

As Qade would say.
We’ve had a BLAST this week!! Once we finally made it “over the interstate and through the traffic” to the fam’s houses we had a great time! Qade simply revels in the attention he gets from his grandparents and Oma. I love to watch him having fun with them. He cried when we left and wanted to “go back, gam-pa’s house!” That’s just because he didn’t know what was in store for him at OUR home! Yes, we are the odd ones who prefer to have our Christmas at home. We LOVE seeing family AROUND Christmas time, but prefer to have our actual Christmas at home with just us…. okay, we’re strange.
So as our “tradition” dictates we get to open something on Christmas Eve. Well, this year Stu said that we should open our stockings SO we did. Since we don’t ‘do’ Santa in our home it’s no biggie, and the boys loved getting their stocking goodies! They both got sunglasses, hoping that it will cut down on the “sun in ma eyes” screams that we get in the vehicle. Who knows though, Myles wouldn’t keep his on for longer than 10 seconds at a time and then scream for help to get them back on. Ha! They both thought they were pretty cool, and I’d have to agree!
Qade got “Cars” glasses, of course, and you can clearly see the McQueen and Mator. Very fun!! Myles glasses are uh… hot wheels I think. I’m not sure, but they don’t have any character on the front so who knows…. they did get schmoozed pretty fast, however.
I got a movie in MY stocking so after the lads went to bed (early, yay!) Stu and I got to snuggle on the couch and watch it. I don’t know who decided that if a baby goes to bed 1/2 hr early that it equals to waking up 3 hours early, but I believe it’s a BAD practice! No, it wasn’t so bad, but at around 4am I heard some squalls coming from the lad’s room and went to comfort Myles. By then he had roused his big bro, but fortunately Qade didn’t get up. I calmed Myles down, told Qade to go back to sleep, and then Myles joined us upstairs because I knew leaving them both in there awake would be a complete calamity!! Then we all got a couple hours more sleep and that made for a good Christmas morning.
We ate our TRADITIONAL Christmas morning breakfast of monkey bread!!!! It turned out so licky, sticky yummy this morning! LOVE IT!! And since the boys don’t have the actual idea of Christmas down yet, they didn’t mind waiting for gifts till after breakfast.
It was SO fun this year to watch Qade figure stuff out. He took an active role in passing out gifts with a hearty, “Mewwy Cwismas” and he took an even more eager interest in opening his own gifts. It has finally clicked to him that when ya tear the pretty paper off, there is something really fun on the inside! Myles is still much more interested in playing with the packaging and paper than the gifts but there were a few that sparked his interest.
We are determined to teach our children thankfulness, in as much as WE can. We want to teach by example, and also by helping them learn to give. This year at my family’s house we had Qade pass out the gifts we brought and tell each person Merry Christmas, by name. Then when visiting Stuart’s grandmother in an assisted living home, we encouraged Qade to shake hands with the residents and tell them Merry Christmas as well. He was so good about it! Sometimes going there makes the boys nervous, but this time they were both showing off for the amusement of the older folks. It made my heart glad to see the smiles that our boys were able to get from the people there. Next year, since the lads will both be old enough to participate, we will make “goodies” for them and have a great adventure “giving” day. Our little ones are very privileged to have so many caring people who want to give them good things. They have fantastic grandparents on both sides, and of course, WE even have a hard time restraining our ‘gifting’ when we see something we just KNOW they’d love! But more important than them getting all the things their little hearts could wish for, we want them to be thankful and ENJOY what they already have, and appreciate new things they get, rather than think that it’s just their due. We also want to help them learn the joy of giving. That is a treasure that can’t be taken away.
SO anyway, I hope that you have all had a very very fun and happy Christmas! Hope that “santa” whomever that is for you, was generous to you this year, and that you thought a lot about what it meant for “Baby Jesus” (as Qade calls Him) to be born for us. Merry Christmas!

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