CHRISTMAS EVE!

It's so late/ early it's really christmas! Today we went to Walmart to make your Christmas cards, the with G&G H. To visit Arlene.
Around 6pm We had Christmas with the Bishop family. We had meatballs, coconut shrimp, Parmesan potatoes, green beans and mozzarella sticks for dinner as well as various snacks throughout the night. Aunt Brooke had to work so we ate and then went to tour Christmas lights before you opened a few gifts. Aunt Brooke and uncle Darrick arrived around 10 and ten we all opened gifts after a round of photos via camera timer! You LOVED the timed pics!
You got a cabbage patch baby with really curly blond hair, a stroller, a sled, books, a shape puzzle, and J. Crew clothes from Grandma and Grandpa. ; and you got a pair of pink glittered Toms shoe from Brooke and Darrick. Wen you put them on you looked down and said, " Dor"...meaning DORTHY! You are so smart!
It was a great Christmas Eve!

Happy 19th Month Birthday

Tonight daddy dropped you off at the Y for the end of swim team practice ( he was headed to the high school boys basket ball game in Carthage). The girls circled around you and you enchanted them with your knowledge of various body parts. You loved their applause, and cried when they started to get up to go home, so o course they sat back down for a bit more fun.
After practice we went to grandma and grandpa Headricks, where you dined on birthday chicken strips and French fries.
You kept mentioning poop, and after your poop in grandma B.'s potty the night before, we places you on the potty and you pooped again in the potty. We of course clapped and cheered and you bid the poopy bye bye with a celebratory flush and basked in the glory of your birthday poopy!
Once home we watched Mickeys Christmas special and finally daddy came home just in time to spark a late night round of tickle, chase, and all sorts of other rough and tumble non-bedtime appropriate play... Including the two of you and the best sport of a cat on the planet! Obviously good fun or max the cat would never stand for the abuse!
You are finally in bed now ( guest bed, not the crib) with a bottle, the sound of the ocean lulling you to sleep, daddy watching the news, and mommy typing these last words before crawling in beside you. We will sleep like this until I get up just after 4:30, and daddy crawls in for his sleep time. It's a good life, the best 19 months ever! We love you!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving morning came super early! Mommy headed out to grandma and grandpa H.'s at 5:00am to retrieve the turkey, then to Walmart, and home to cook the turkey. You and daddy were sleeping soundly.
Daddy took off for a run and you woke up shortly after he left...around 9:30. We hung out in bed watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. You loved the "balloons". Mommy ran without you do to the chill in the air, and you and daddy showered and dressed for the day.
After my run I showered and changed, packed up the turkey and headed to grandma and grandpa H.'s. Grandma and Grandpa Bishop and Helen joined the festivities as well as all of Grandpa H.'s family. GG was in Heaven this year so he couldn't make it (GG night night is what you say).
We ate and then walked down to the nature trail ( a sort of memorial to GG). All of your second cousins played and ran and laughed, it didn't take long for you to warm up to them. You carried around a ceramic baby duck from the
Nature trail, and jabbered away.
After our time down at the bluff, daddy, cole cole, Hannah, Gavin, Gwen and Byron played a version of tag that required retrieving an action figure from a flower pot and making it up to the deck with your whole team. It was. Wry entertaining to watch! You mimicked the running on the deck thoroughly enjoying the sound your shoes made on the wood.
Later that evening daddy went home to relax before work the next day ( just daddy, not you and I ). We stayed and put up the tree. It was really neat to put the ornaments from when I was little on the tree with my little girl.
It was a fantastic Thanksgiving...probably the best ever!

We went home late and Friday mommy got up early for practice and then we spent the morning with Cole Cole before he headed back to Columbia for work. We decorated more and you pushed your shopping g cart around outside insisting thy you wear a basket around your neck a a purse of sorts?!
After Cole Cole left, we spent the evening at Silver Dollar City at the Christmas celebration. We saw the lights show, you rode the froggies and the bugs and then we watched the parade. All of the parade characters came up to you to...you are just too cute!
After the parade we spent some time in the olde time church and I got a great picture of you smelling the tree!
You also loved they taffy store, I kept telling you it was like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...you really liked the taffy too.
On the way home we stopped for some fine dining at mcDonalds ( one of your faves already). You ate your happy meal hamburger just like a big kid, it was really cute!
We made it home late bit we do the entire trip! It was such a fun fun day! I could see us making SDC a little tradition for our Black Friday vs shopping!

11/11/11

Yesterday was supposed to be the luckiest day of our lives (even though next year we will observe 12/12/12...but whatever). The day started off well, after a week of strep, a viral infection, hacking smokers cough, high temps, three visits to the doctor, and a week home from school and work; you were finally at Sally's and I was at work. But at around 9:30 Sally called and you were throwing up. Grandpa H. And Blair Blair were off yesterday so Grandpa picked you up from Sally's and you only threw up one more time on the way home. Your high temp never returned thank goodness and I think the throw up was due to your two huge molars pushing their way into your left and right top gums.
I was able to leave work before noon . You were tired by that point and fell asleep on Blair Blair's lap for a while before we headed home. You watched tv for a while and dosed off in the chair watching Barney.
You and I spent the evening with Grandma and Grandpa H. we had Grandpa's famous "Sunday Night Supper" Carmel apples and popcorn ( you had pizza and olives as well) and we added the Carmel, that was not part of the real deal when Grandpa was a kid. Regardless, we had lots of fun and had a full time job trying to keep the un-popped kernels out of your mouth!
Even though we had fun, you still wouldn't let me out of reach and we headed home early. Blair Blair came over for a while to play with you until you got tired and then we watched four Barney's and you fell asleep.
I guess we didn't win the lottery or anything on 11/11/11 but I feel pretty lucky to have you!

This morning you are still wearing the sweet camo tee Sally put you in after you threw up, and you are finding tons of entertainment in your two bottles of medicine ( which you love to take, you actually giggle when I pull it out?!).

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Our halloween celebration started with a trip to the Weston Red Barn Pumpkin Patch the Friday before Halloween! You loved it! There were animals and pumpkins! The next day daddy went to his college homecoming and you and I went to Silver Dollar City with G&G H and Blair Blair for their Fall Festival. You wore your witch cape and everyone thought you were adorable!

Tonight ( Halloween Night- Monday) when I picked you up from Sally's we went home and changed you into your awesome witch costume and went trick-or-treating!
We stopped at Grandma B.'s (public library), then went to the hospital and visited Grandma and Grandpa H. , next we stopped to see daddy and he joined our adventure. We went to see Nelda, Jack and Shirley and the ave you a cute little candy corn stuffed ghost that makes an eery ghost sounds! You loved it! Shirley also loaded your pumpkin pail with your favorite: snickers! Next we stopped at the Moore's house and enjoyed lots of goodies, we stayed there and passed out candy on their front porch for a while and you loved seeing all of the kids! Next we went to Grandma and Grandpa H.'s and ate Subway and you opened your Halloween presents and goodies which included a spooky sounds book, a witch cup, the Willy Wonka DVD, a nay nay (stuffed horse), stickers, crackers, fruit, and candy for days!
Our final stop was at Grandma and Grandpa B.'s. We took lots of pictures with Lola ( the black cat) and grandma and grandpa had a pumpkin mug full of 3 Musketeers candy bars (daddy's favorite too) for your trick-or-treat!
By the time we got home it was almost 9! But it sure was fun!

HAPPY 18th MONTH BIRTHDAY!

We are laying in mommy and daddy's bed. Daddy is at his college homecoming. You and I just got back from Silver Dollar City with G&G H. & Blair Blair. I want to write about how much fun we had but you are still awake and wallowing all over me, you want your face on mine an your body me too... Which makes for tricky typing.
Happy Birthday Baby GARRITY!