The Big, the Little

This is how I found Scott and Cole yesterday.  

I was cracking up.  Here's all 6'3" of Scott curled up onto our little loveseat, and there's Cole taking up the entire couch all by himself.  Truly, Cole has enjoyed Scott being home so much.  Today Scott was zipping the liner back into his coat after I had washed it and Cole said, "Dad are you going to school? Me don't haunt you to go to school."  

Christmas In a Nutshell

We put them to bed around 10:00.  I was so hoping they would sleep in.  What was I thinking?

We finally got to bed around 1:00 a.m., and they arrived around 5:00 a.m.  I had told them all the night before that 7:00 was the magic time, but they had to ask if we could move that to say...5:00.  I was so tired.  Scott reminded me that it was Christmas and he hauled out of bed, so I followed suit.  

   Let's just say it was very obvious how tired they were as I sat up the video camera before they all headed downstairs and as I flipped it on to record the first thing I hear is Aidan yelling, "Don't push me!"  oi vei.  

 (Asher went out to shovel the deck for me to cook the steak and this is how I found him and Cole).  

We did have a fantastic Christmas however.  I even got in a nap.  Although we were quite sad that we didn't get to go up to Grandma and Grandpa's house as we traditionally do, Grandma was kind enough to bring what we would have had for Christmas dinner down to us for me to cook.  I probably would've made some soup or something, but we were graced with fantastic steaks and CRAB LEGS!!  These things were huge.  I thought it would be kinda funny to put this gigantic claw on Cole's plate when he got to the dinner table, and I had my camera ready.  

He immediately scowled, and said, "What is it? Me don't haunt it.  It's too pokey."  

In a sunshine voice I said, "Oh Cole, it's yummy, it's crab."

"NO!  Me don't haunt crab.  It's too pokey!"

We all just laughed and I removed the claw.  

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and look forward to the New Year!

Special Name

So tonight as we were driving with all the kids in the car we decided that if our sweet little baby decides to be born on Christmas Day we're going to give her a special Christmas name.  Some of the ideas were:

Ho Ho Browning

Cookie Browning

Holly Browning

Joy Browning

Noel Browning

 but we settled on 

Jingle Bell Browning. 

So here's hoping we have a Christmas baby!  right?

A Day Without T.V.

I decided to unplug the t.v. today.  It was fantastic!!  It seems that thing is going 24/7 with noise sometimes.  Let me tell you what the kids got done:

Went to breakfast with Santa

They created their own gingerbread houses out of graham crackers and Halloween candy

Colored a candle picture then soaked it in oil to make it "see-through"

Helped me make stew

Cole rubbed lotion on my legs

Had a coloring contest

Helped me get a ton of housework done

Played the piano

Chloe painted my toenails

Set up the bassinet for me (complete with pillows, blankets, stuffed animals :)

Yeah for NO T.V.

We just listened to Scott L's Christmas CD over and over with the fireplace on.  

Happy Day. 

Bad Mood

I started the day right- early, getting things done, laundry, dishes, cleaning out the fridge,picking up.  Then I shattered a glass shelf from my fridge in my kitchen sink.  A couple other things got me all worked up too.  Well, I called my sisters (yes more than one) to vent.  And can I just say Emily had an idea that was pure genius.  You see my problem was that glass had shattered and fallen in my disposal.  I was getting all cut up trying to retrieve glass.  She suggested I get the shop vac and stick the hose down in the disposal and suck the glass out!!!  Brilliant.  I think she should write that one in to Martha Stewart or Abby or someone.  Give the girl some credit.  Shop vacs are so underrated!  I'm going to start thinking of shop vacs first when I find myself in a sticky situation.  Perhaps they'll be the answer to more than one problem.