I am feeling a little lazy after our big lunch so no pictures for right now but wanted to post some happenings this morning. I was sleeping in and Jeff had turned on the Macy's parade for the kids to watch. when the energizer bunny float came on Hannah says: "You sure don't see that everyday!" Sure don't kiddo. Where do they hear this stuff? I don't talk like that! Do I? It makes me think of an old geezer with suspenders.
We brought down the little christmas trees for the kids' rooms and let them decorate them this morning (well, Jacob's is little but Hannah's is actually a scrawny 5 footer). Jacob put about two ornaments on his and Hannah's was so decked out it toppled and she had to remove some. Oh yeah, I just remembered a funny one. Hannah is such a girly girl and her two favorite book characters are Angelina ballerina and Fancy Nancy (a little girl who likes to make everything fancy). Hannah will dress up and accessorize and say "Fancy Nancy would like this outfit," etc. etc. The other day Hannah got home from school and said
"I need to Fancy-Nancy-up!" Didn't think that could be made into a verb.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
My new favorite thing: Ta-da lists

This is not my list featured above. Mine is way cooler. I found this site that lets you make lists for free and I am in OCD heaven. I love that you can make seperate lists and it has little boxes on the side for you to check them off which then moves them to the bottom of your list without a box and in a smaller font. I love that I can use the laptop on the counter and look at it throughout the day. I love that I will never again have scraps of paper with scrawled to do lists hidden throughout my house and purse. I love that it is called Ta Da and not To Do. I love that with one click I can see what I wanted to change in my bedroom, or what the next thing we need to do to for house maintainance is, or what my next step for emergency preparedness is.
The joy I get out of this has confirmed for Jeff that I am crazy. What is even funnier is the site http://cdo.tadalist.com/lists is called cdo.tadalist. CDO is OCD only in alaphabetical order, as it should be. (Jeff really loved that joke as he thought it applied to me)
Something may very well be wrong with me but I am not alone!
More on the balloon animals

I think it goes without saying that Jeff is the more fun one in our house. My role was made more apparent two sundays ago when Hannah was sick and Jeff was going to stay home from church with her. We don't watch t.v. or movies on Sunday but when the kids are sick we make an exception. Jeff told Hannah that she could watch a movie but Hannah kept saying: "But what will Mom say, shouldn't we ask Mom first, etc. etc." Which makes Jeff fume especially since we show a united front with the kids - i.e. Your dad and I both give the same answers. She finally relaxes a little and chills out on the sofa with Jeff and some movies.
Three hours later she hears me pull into the driveway and jumps up to look out the door, then darts back to the t.v. and turns it off
Jeff: Hannah, what are you doing?
Hannah: I am just done! Frantically opens the dvd player and pulls out the dvd
Jeff again: Hannah, why are you taking out the dvd?
Hannah: I am just done watching! Quickly puts the dvd back in the case and puts it away in the drawer. -a little side note, they never do that when they are done.
Oh what a tangled web we weave.
And apparently I am THE BOSS. Or maybe just the mean one. hmmm.
Friends
Jacob likes Reuben and is sharing his Banana nut cheerios with him as we are riding the tram. The weather was beautiful and it was such a fun day.
Jeff is 29!!!

I love you Jeff.
Monday, November 2, 2009
The Halloween Candy personality profile
Happy Halloween

Sunday, November 1, 2009
More on the fair
Mimi was at the fair also but we have discovered that the women are the photographers in this family.

Tardy fair photos
The Good Life
We finally moved Hannah back into her own room. Jacob had been tormenting her at bedtime for weeks, licking her, getting in bed with her, pretty much anything to make her scream. We would come in, try to restore order, sometimes move Jacob to our bed so that he could fall asleep before transplanting him back to his own bed. We kept saying that it was probably time for her to have her own room again but she would cry and say: "please let's give him one more chance."
Eventually I had enough and bribed her with glow in the dark stars on her ceiling if she would move back to her old room. Bribe accepted. After moving her furniture to the other room (Jeff was very kind to understand that Yes we need to move her dresser with the full fish tank this very evening even though you just got home from work) she was settled in. The next afternoon I came upstairs and found her looking at a book while lounging on her bed. She had Snow White and the Seven Dwarves playing on her CD player. She looked at me and said:
Eventually I had enough and bribed her with glow in the dark stars on her ceiling if she would move back to her old room. Bribe accepted. After moving her furniture to the other room (Jeff was very kind to understand that Yes we need to move her dresser with the full fish tank this very evening even though you just got home from work) she was settled in. The next afternoon I came upstairs and found her looking at a book while lounging on her bed. She had Snow White and the Seven Dwarves playing on her CD player. She looked at me and said:
It never gets better than this.
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