Monday, November 24, 2008

The Royal Treatment

Yesterday, Michael and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary! Where did the time go?

Since it was Sunday, we were trying to sleep in a little. Jonah and Sadie kept coming in our room trying to wake us up. We were quite annoyed. I walked out in the living room and immediately saw why they were so anxious to wake us up. They had cleaned the whole house! And it had been quite a mess the night before. They even loaded the dishwasher. Jonah said they had been up since 6:15 cleaning.

Then, the two of them brought us breakfast in bed – donuts, orange juice and milk. They kept calling us "Your majesties." It was so adorable. Then they presented us with a lovely card that they made themselves and sang us "Happy Anniversary" to the tune of "Happy Birthday." They had obviously practiced.

It was the sweetest thing ever. I guess we must be doing something right!

Friday, November 7, 2008

More Sadie-isms

Today, Sadie wasn't listening and I asked her if she needed to get her ears checked. She said, "Mama, you know I have bad earsight (that's not a new one), what are we going to do about it? Maybe I need some earglasses."

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Witches and Zombies and Cheerleaders, oh my...and more

Here are some recent photos!




Monday, November 3, 2008

Goodwill Hunting

So much to report since last time...

Today, Violet said, "Sadie" clear as a bell AND walked using her walker for the first time! It was very exciting. The PT was here today and that's what she worked on with Violet. Violet didn't want to have anything to do with the walker at first and fought her every step of the way. She took a few steps and then would throw herself on the floor in a tantrum. When Michael got home, I told him about it. He said to Violet, "Can you show me how you walked with your walker?" She looked at it, crawled over to it and started pushing it while on her knees, then stood right up and walked all the way across the room. We were all so proud!

Sadie is going to her first "slumbover" party this weekend. I swear, that kid needs to write her own dictionary. She is very excited.

I have been on a cleaning and organizing mission these last few weeks. If I didn't know better, I'd swear I was pregnant and nesting. Rest assured, the vasectomy worked (at least so far). I have felt the need to get rid of as much clutter as possible from our house. It's really true what they say about physical clutter causing mental clutter. I feel so much better. I threw a bunch of stuff away, took a fair amount to consignment (which was pretty much a waste of time) and a ton of stuff to Goodwill.

In my purging frenzy, I accidentally took our unwanted cable box to Goodwill, thinking it was an old DVD player. Michael had been planning to take the cable box back to Insight because we didn't need it and were paying for it. I thought he had already taken it and mistakenly thought it was junk. I went over to Goodwill today and it was nowhere to be found. Some joker scored a $5 cable box and instead of us paying the $10 a month to rent it, we are now probably going to have to pay a few hundred dollars to replace it. I'm such a loser!

We had a great Halloween. As soon as I get the pictures downloaded, I will post them!