WOW... I can't believe that it has been 5 weeks again... must be a magical number for me… lol… I didn't even get my post to look like Christmas or my Christmas music :( ... My favorite time of year and I didn't even share it... insane!!

So much has happened since I posted last…
Jimmy’s Birthday, Thanksgiving, Chad's Mom's Birthday, Christmas, and the everyday living of life. I will work on getting caught up; hit the highlights and then a general post of most everything else.

I hope that all of you had a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and are planning a great new year!! We love our family and friends very much and hope only the best for all of you!!

Last week on the 10th Chris was helping me make breakfast. I was putting some potatoes in the pan on the stove when I turned around and he was reaching for his glass of water and slipped on the chair. He hit the counter top and then face planted on the floor. He bit right through his lip. WOW, there was a lot of blood. Needless to say we ended up in the Emergency Room. They let the inside wound heal it’s self, but he got 4 stitches on the outside of his lip. They were in for 5 days, and then we went in and got them out. He had the same nurse. She had brought another nurse in with her to help her, when she walked in and saw that is was Chris she said, “oh you can go help someone else. I had him when he got them in and he is a great boy. I won’t need help”. That was really nice to hear, he really was a great patient. When they were putting in the stitches they had numbed it and then waited over an hour. When the Dr started putting in the stitches he wasn’t numb anymore. He put the stitches in anyways. I about lost it, but Chris was so brave. He just said “no more please Dr”, but didn’t move. I know that we wouldn’t have been as brave.

Chris is ALL BOY!! and is going to give us a run for our money (as they say). He DOES, and then MAYBE thinks about it. LOL!! He is quite proud of his adventures and will tell you all about them.

Back on November 6 (yes almost a month late) it was my week to be helper “mom” at Joy School. We were talking about our 5 senses. We made Chocolate Pudding and here is how they were using their 5 senses.

They were able to see the ingredients, hear the ingredients being stirred together, to smell the pudding (chocolate yummy).
They were able to TOUCH it, and make pictures or whatever their little hearts desired, and to TASTE it off of their precious little fingers :)

It was fun to watch them; some weren’t too sure about getting in there and exploring what they would be able to do. It didn’t take too long before they were all in it and having fun.
It has been so much fun to watch these little ones all learn and grow. I’m so glad that Chris and I are having this experience. We are BOTH learning and gaining friends, what more can one ask for. :)

Ok finally I have a copy of Twilight to read,

thanks to my best friend STEPH.

Now I can go with the girls on girl’s night out to see the movie!! Chad was supposed to work a double tomorrow (later today now), and Steve is off work. I thought it would be perfect to get it read then. I've been trying to listen to it but it's hard to always focus on it with a 4yr old talking above the audio reader. Chad just got home..oh well 2 hrs ago now.. and he does the double on Monday. So I’ll see how much I can squeeze into this weekend and get it finished as soon as I can. I have to be ready for our night. :). That will be my first night out with friends in a long while, except for this AWESOME class that Cyrene and I just took together for the past 3 Wednesday nights, but that was a little different than a movie night.

I’m behind several weeks in reading all my blogs.

Well I can read them on my phone i.e.:

waiting for Jimmy after school, waiting at the Dr office etc.

But I can’t post comments so I have to find time (lol) to go back and post them. Well tonight is the first time that I could, and I got to everyone’s!!.. Thank you for all your beautiful posts and you comments on mine.

I love to get them and know that someone actually reads my blog. I’m reaching the magical 100th post, I’m already thinking about what I want to do for it :), is that silly? lol

Even though we had snow in early October, November 5th was Griz’s first snow… She wasn’t too sure about it at first but then started playing and really enjoying it. Cub just watched her, you could just imagine Cub looking at her and saying “kids” while shaking her head… lol … Griz kept taunting her to play, it was cute and the boys and I were laughing and enjoying watching them (from inside). The boys wanted to go out in it so bad they emerged upstairs with their snow boots on over their “footed” P.J.’s. Never a dull moment around here…lol

So the day after Halloween we hosted a Daddy Daughter Dinner for our Activities Day Girls. We were originally going to have a Halloween theme, but the girls all decided that they wanted to have it be an 80’s theme. They thought that their Dad’s would like that better and that their mom’s would enjoy helping them get dressed up. I think that they were right on both occasions. Everyone seemed to have a really good time and enjoyed themselves.

(When did the 80”s become the oldie’s? Wasn’t that our parents time, the oldie's? What happened??)

It was good to see the girls interact and COMPETE (wow there was some real competition there lol) with their Dad’s.
We had them write for each other: My Dad/Daughter is Dad/Daughter of the year because:… (they filled in the rest)
At the end we had them read them to each other, it was a great ending to a great night.