I'M NOT TIRED!!!

Yeah, right. She's been asleep on the living room floor for 20 minutes!

Annabelle: On Watching The Presidential Inauguration

Annabelle: Why do we have to watch this? I want to watch Caillou.
Me: You can watch Caillou any time, this is a one shot deal.
Annabelle: Won't this be on Demand?

Annabelle: Look at all those children there! Why did I not get to go there?
Me: There are a lot of people there, but there are also billions of people in the world. Not everyone is able to go.
Annabelle: Well I wanted to go, they all look so happy.
Annabelle: Why are those people so happy?
Me: They are happy to see a new President.
Annabelle: Why?
Me: People are happy about a change.
Annabelle: Why?
Me: Not everyone liked the last president.
Annabelle: Why?
Me: He made some bad decisions.
Annabelle: What did he do that was bad to YOU?
Me: Nothing to me, directly.
Annabelle: Well, he was BAD to ME!!!!
Me: How was he bad to you?
Annabelle: He made me watch boring t.v.

Annabelle Art

I really love this picture Annabelle made at school today. Apparently, it is a picture of me watering some flowers, which is very fitting, seeing as it is FIVE degrees outside and any plant life would be buried under 3 layers of ICE! I especially love the huge smile on my face as I water the flowers under the glowing yellow sun, with my massive pink watering can, which is somehow affixed to the tiny little arm that is jutting out from my gigantic head!

Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling on this cold wintery day!

He Did It!!!!

Yay, Jack... No more binkys!!

So, yesterday afternoon before he went in for a nap, Jack ran into the bathroom and looked in the trash bin for his binkys. When he saw that they weren't there he immediately became concerned and asked where they had gone. I told him that the "binky fairy" had come and removed the binkys because he was too big for them now. He was a little upset, and overtired, and started asking if she could bring them back! I told him that it was too late; the "binky fairy" had already given them to little babies, who needed them much more than big kids. He still seemed a little upset but was willing to give it a try... until he discovered one more binky hidden in his bed! I tried to take it from him but he was so cranky, I caved, and he ended up taking a nap with the bink.

After his nap he handed me that last binky and told me I could give it to the binky fairy..

At bed time he started asking all sorts of questions about the binky fairy: "what is her name?", "where does she live?", "where is she taking my binkys?", "how does she get into the house?" etc... This dragged on for a while. I thought he was working his way towards asking for a binky, but he never did. He eventually fell asleep- He slept through the night without a problem.

In the morning he woke to find the binky fairy had left him a little present on his window sill. He was very pleased, and also very proud of himself.

We're pretty proud of him too!

Could This Really Be The End?

I woke up this morning to Annabelle excitedly telling me that Jack had thrown all of his binkys in the trash!

When I asked him about it, he said that he doesn't need them anymore! I'm hoping he means it. He knows that he has until his 4Th birthday to make peace with the inevitable separation, which gives him about 2 more months. So we shall see...

In the mean time, I have removed all binkys from the inside trash in case he tries to go fishing around for them.

Mini Guitar Hero

Nick gave me Guitar Hero for my birthday yesterday and Annabelle was so mad about it!- she really wanted to get it for her birthday, next month. I tried to explain to her that this is a good thing; now she can use it a month sooner AND get to choose a different present for her birthday, it's a win win situation.

She didn't buy it though: She went into school yesterday and told everyone she encountered that it was Mommy's birthday and Mommy got Guitar Hero and that is what she wanted for her birthday and she is mad because Mommy stole her present... And she did this all in one long breathe, with arms crossed, and foot tapping.

I think all was forgiven later in the day, when she actually got to use it.

She was so funny, she insisted that she had to wear the strap so that she could be a real rock star!

Annabelle is not the best at Guitar Hero (yet), but she was able to follow the tutorial and has been practicing the songs. I'm sure within a few days she will surpass both Nick, and myself... As she does with most Wii games.

Wet AND Crazy

Happy New Year!!

I'm so behind on posting on this blog.

I haven't felt like updating the blog at all this year - I think I'm spending too much time on Facebook. Maybe that should be my New year's resolution- less Facebook, more blogging!

So, not much has happened yet this year... We had a very mellow New Year's eve- Nick and I hung out at home and watched the ball drop, the Monkeys were in bed by 7:30pm. It was a pretty typical year. Maybe some day we'll spice things up and let the Monkeys stay up late with us... maybe.

The kids are finally back at school after having had over 2 weeks off for Christmas/New Years, plus a couple of snow days. I thought it would be a loooong vacation for me, being home with them all day, but it really wasn't that bad. We were so busy most of the time that the kids started asking to stay home so that they could play with their new toys! When they were home they were very good- I think I only had to beat them twice :)

Annabelle has started back at her Tuesday morning acting class, which she loves, and has also started taking ice skating lessons on Sundays. She is ecstatic about the ice skating... She had been asking to go every weekend since I took her that one time last winter. She received ice skates for Christmas so now, at least with the lessons, she is guaranteed to go every weekend, which she is thrilled about.

I've been feeling a little guilty about Annabelle having two weekly activities to Jack's zero, so I think I may try and sign Jack up for swimming again. He really loves the water, in fact, just yesterday he tried to swim in a giant puddle outside of school, it was 25 degrees out, so I think he would appreciate an indoor pool at this point.

Other than that, not much going on... Jack has been playing nonstop with his Geotrax trains and Annabelle has become quite proficient with watercolors!