New Years Eve!

We had a wonderful New Years Eve with our little family and some other little families, for a full exciting description and wonderful pictures please visit: www.whatsbakin.blogspot.com

Anna, Jack, Alec update

Anna is now spelling and reading a lot of three letter words, she is determined to be reading by her birthday! She continues to show a lot of interest and talent in art, she draws and paints beautifully. She got her first real haircut, about 3 inches off, she looks so much older now!

Jack is talking so much and has definitely had a verbal explosion. He is talking three sentences at a time now. This is hard to say but Jack got a real haircut too and the curls/rat tail is gone. I fought it as long as I could. But he still looks like a little baby boy so it's okay.

Alec is getting very mobile. He can pull himself to a sitting position from laying down, he has attempted to pull up on a few things and has been trying to get in the crawling position. The second tooth just broke through the gums! He will eat anything he can get his hands on or face in. At a birthday party recently, he very quickly and with conviction grabbed a hand full of birthday cake off of Patrick's plate and shoved it in his mouth before Patrick could do anything!

Reindeer Food

Anna brought home some "reindeer food" that her class had made so that we could leave it out for Rudolph and Blitzen and the gang. A couple days before Christmas a worried Anna came running to tell me that Jack had eaten some reindeer food and something was going to happen to him. I think she was legitimately upset that he might morph into a reindeer or fly away. It is very heartwarming when they are concerned for one another. FYI: Reindeer food is something along the lines of granola and blue cookie sprinkles, but it did look convincing!

Christmas 2006

Okay all of you know that my children do not sleep. They don't sleep as babies and they still don't sleep very much. We don't wake up later than 6 ever!!!!!
But guess what, on Christmas morning they slept. What is that? That was not going to work for Patrick and I however. We woke them up when we woke up. No it was not payback... we couldn't wait to see their little faces when they saw their gifts! Anna was thrilled to see her fully equipped dollhouse, (which Patrick swears I bought for myself), Jack was more excited about his books than his train set, and Alec was very excited about the gift wrap, bows and trash all over the floor! We had a wonderful Christmas, and between Santa and family the kids were spoiled as always. Anna and Jack were very cute on Christmas eve, they were playing in the living room where the tree was. We came in there and Anna had moved the fire place screen out of the way because she was very concerned Santa would not be able to get his bag out. Jack was more concerned that Santa was going to burn his "booty" on the logs. "Booty" is a favorite word around our house these days. By the way, for Santa's snack, the kids left him a Capri Sun and a Hello Kitty poptart.

Jack's tonsils

Okay, I know it has definitely been awhile since I last posted. Jack had his tonsils out on Dec. 13th. It was an emotionally stressful day for everyone and seeing his little body in that tiny hospital gown with the back open and his little diaper showing was almost too much to bear. However, the good thing for him is that he was not stressed because he didn't know to be. He was in surgery all of about 30 minutes, and the doctor said he did great, no complications, what a blessing! Going to recovery to see him was an experience, we could hear him yelling before we even opened the door to the recovery area. He was standing in the gurney fussing at the nurse wanting to be unhooked and released. As soon as I got to hold him and hug him (for the next 4 hours) both of us were incredibly relieved and instantly calmed. He was eating from the time they gave him his first Popsicle. On the Pediatric floor at Richland there are wagons for the parents to wheel the children around in. Jack rode and I walked many a mile on the pedo floor just going from his room to the family refreshment area restocking on frozen desserts. He ate scrambled eggs, zucchini, and a couple french fries on his second day. Now don't be misled, I am not saying he would have won any congeniality awards, because every time he swallowed anything he got mad but the determination won out. He ate it and just kept getting mad.
He was a true trooper and a very good patient to only be two years old, but I guess I am a slight bit biased. It has been about three weeks now and he is fully himself and talking a lot more, the doctor said the size of his tonsils was rare and very impressive. We are glad to have that behind us!