Christmas

It was finally Christmas with an almost-3-year-old... how exciting it would be to have her wake up to all these toys and loads of fun with Santa, etc. Well, I must say it was incredibly disappointing for us because Nucky had high fever for 3 straight days including Christmas Eve and Day. We were so sad not to be able to go to a C Eve service or just to enjoy celebrating. She was zombie-like and generally irritable. On Christmas morning, she came down to see her toys, looked at everything in a very mesmerized fashion and then asked if she could go back to her bed. We have a few pics of her on her tricycle and with her Dora backpack (a favorite from Aunt Caroline) but other than that, not much excitement. Of course, TSG didn't know what was going on which was probably good since she got about 3 previously-owned items!


All the grandkids at Bibi and Gogo's. I think Nucky was finally getting better by this point, but little did we know that all the other kids were disease-ridden at the time of the photo.

Even in my Christmas dress, I'm dirty, brave and not so sure about having a photo taken. Typical TSG, climbing without fear... like mother, like daughter. I broke my collar bone when i was 2 (right, MOM?) climbing up on the counter to get fingernail polish.



Trying to get a good shot for a card. You all know how fun that is.


This was the winner.

Hotties!!

That last post reminded me of another awesome Christmas party pic... look at this good-looking couple, especially the one with the 'stache... that's my LOVER! We hosted this party for our SS class and the requirement was to wear tacky xmas clothes. We didn't win a prize even though I had on gold sparkly pants.

What child is this?

Appropriate Christmas title, right? We borrowed a wig for a Christmas party and couldn't resist trying it on TSG. Nucky wouldn't even think about wearing it... something about her personality but she's very resistant to being the center of attention in anyway, especially if it requires and unknown like a wig.

Bingerbread houses

Not a typo, that's how we say it around here... "bingerbread man, bingerbread house, bingerbread boy." Gotta savor those cute little voices.

Nucky and I made these lovely houses the day before we left for Sumter. It was a quickly thrown-together act on my part b/c I wanted to share the joy with her. She hadn't ever experienced so much joy as having free reign on several kinds of candies. Unfortunately, when you wait until so close to xmas, there are no more good candies left in the candy aisles... no gumdrops (doesn't EVERY gbh have gumdrops... well, don't tell Nucky), peppermints, etc. So we opted for Easter candy like Jelly beans. She loved them and the m and m's. It was cute to watch her put one on the house and eat 2, then put one on the house, and eat 2 more. At first she kind of looked at me for permission, then she just ate with reckless abandon. I doubt she napped that day from all the sugar.... but we made memories.

A very happy Thanksgiving

Yep, way behind on blogging. I can't leave out Thanksgiving and jump to Christmas but sickness has prevented me from updates.

We had our second bi-annual Thanksgiving trip to St Simon's Island, GA with just our little family. So much fun to have down time for the 4 of us. We enjoyed riding bikes the most, but also loved feeding the ducks, eating some delicious seafood and seeing the Yellow Jackets beat Georgia for the first time in 7 years?

Funny story... I took Nucky to a playground while TSG took her nap one day. I took my book and was contentedly reading on a bench when I looked up to check on Nucky and saw her up on the slide platform with her pants and underwear around her ankles. Humiliated, I quickly and discreetly asked what she was doing, to which she replied, "My bottom itches!" I ran up there and took care of things but I still laugh over the mental picture.