Shhhh! Santa's Coming!

The cookies are laid out.

The milk is in a chilled glass.

The carrots for the reindeer have been saved from Addison's little chompers.

The girls are in bed.

The whispers have finally died down.

Santa has officially visited our home.

Cannot wait to spend our first Christmas morning as a whole family!

From us, to you...

Merry Christmas!



Relaxin' Around the Christmas Tree

Our family has had a very hectic week full of things that we wanted or needed to get done.

So Addison and I are taking the day off and being "lazy" together.

It's sure to be a wonderful day full of nothing, knitting and present wrapping.



Happy Monday!

Bump Update!

I realized I haven't had a bump update in a while.

The last time I put up a bump update was a very eventful day.

Not 30 minutes after I put up the post I was in the emergency room worried about a possible miscarriage.

Without going into too much gorey detail... there was lots of gore for around 4 hours.

Vague enough for you?

Anyway, they ended up doing an ultrasound and Scarlett was super active and had a strong heartbeat, but part of my amniotic sac had detached from body parts it was supposed to be attached to... thus the "gore".

So the ER sent me home with a "We're super lamesauce, and there's nothing we can do, you might, you might not, we'll never know even though we went to TONS of medical school and are charging you a ridonculous amount of money."

I've been on a sort of "Bed Rest" for the last 9 weeks or so.  No running, jumping, jet skiing, competitive weightlifting, etc; for me!  In return though, my little Scarlett is happy and healthy and still baking in the oven :)

I'd call this a pregnancy/belly success!

Prayers are of course still needed as they haven't taken any restrictions away, but baby is happy and healthy and at 23 weeks gestation (if for some horrible reason something went wrong) my little Scarlett has a chance of surviving outside of the cozy little dysfunctional home I've made for her :)

Once she's outside of this polka dot accessorized home though...

All bets are off.

I make 'em special.

Who's Child is This?

If any of you have known me for any amount of time you are all well aware that cleaning is about my LEAST favorite thing to do.

I'm a stay at home mom and I know that cleaning is part of my job title but I am a master of procastinating and excuse making and will wiggle my way out of it as often as possible.

That being said, their are some things in a house inhabited by children that HAVE to get done every so often.

Scrubbing pb&j/macaroni/ranch/boogers/dirt/watermelon/yogurt/etc; off the walls is one of those things.

Today was one of those days.

So I loaded up one of my larger bowls with soap and water and started on the stair walls.

These walls see a lot of traffic and gunk covered fingers on a daily basis and were definitely needing a good scrub down.

About 5 minutes into my scrubbing and sulking I had a little girl who looked like this on my hands...



She had been attempting to "help" me scrub the walls by taking the sponge from me.

I'd had to tell her no multiple times cause I didn't want her getting her hands in the dirty water.

I finally relented and gave her the sponge...

Notice, if you will, the ginormous crocodile tear sliding down her cheek.

Now watch her stop wailing and prep the sponge...

Now watch her CLEAN my walls...

HAPPILY?!

Ok, who's kid is this?

Seriously.

All I Want for Christmas...

Guess which one of our kids knew who to suck up to this year :)



Free/Willing Advertising

Today I had the pleasure of taking some office Christmas photos for a good friend at her place of work!

I enlisted the help of my sister to watch the munchkins while I worked some Christmas office magic.

She did a fabulous job of keeping them wrangled and they were, surprisingly, cooperative.

At the end of the shoot the office ladies were nice enough to donate some fun Arby's hats to the lovely little ones.

We've been rocking the free advertising ever since.

So in case you weren't aware you wanted some curly fries and a delicious sandwich...