Holidays

We put up the tree the other night...

Yeah, say what you want... "its too early" or "that's so not in the spirit of Christmas" and "you're skipping Thanksgiving". Well, when you are feeling huge like I am, you want to be a part of the decorating and not be bossing Gabe around telling him where to put things, while sitting on your bum, all tuckered out and too tired to help put anything up the day after Thanksgiving. So there! Deal with it. :) 

I love our tree. Its only got some lights on it and a couple gold and silver ornaments on it so far, mostly on the top half because Sydney wants to pull all the bells off already and throw them onto the floor or couch to hear them jungle. I am trying to find a picture of what I would like to have our tree look like. We have red, green, silver, gold, and silver snowflake ornaments, but I want to go for a certain look. I almost want something like this picture here...

..but with the ornaments on a much smaller scale. If I had that natural lighting in my house I would totally do it.

I made a cookie recipe. I took a Chocolate Peppermint Chocolate Chip recipe that I had found online and tweaked it. I think I could call it my own since I changed so much of it. I almost want to call them "Much Too Good For Children Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies" thinking of Matilda and Miss Trunchabull stuffing her face with the chocolates. They are really good! Check them out!! Here is the Recipe!

I also made lots of yummy bread to put in the freezer and have extra of because we eat a loaf a day pretty much, and some Ginger Molasses cookies, which are oh so good with milk.

I am trying to figure out how to hang our stockings this year, which I am making myself. Gabe wanted a forest green stocking and I will have a red, and then the girls will have one red and one of them green, not sure who. I might get our names embroidered on them. We'll see. I wan thinking if I can borrow my mom's decorations that she used on the banisters at the old house, then I can improvise a "mantle" over the tv and hang the stockings on there from the garland. All we need is a dvd of that fire they have playing on tv sometimes during the holidays. You know that channel where it only shows a fire burning in a fireplace. I think it would look pretty good if I can pull it off.

And on top of the dishes cabinet I need some more garland to put behind the santa and snowmen.

And maybe I can find some pretty gold ribbon and make some nice bows to go below the sconces above the piano...

Whenever Sydney wakes up, she asks for Milk and then when we make it to the living room, she says "on" because she wants the tree light on. she loves the tree.

The other day she woke up from her nap and wasn't very happy at all. I asked her if she wanted dinner, or milk, or a snack, and she kept telling me "no no no".

And she is such a cutie when she is asleep...

Yesterday I really needed to make a phone call, so I started calling whomever it was I was calling, I forget now who, and I was getting Sydney changed out of her pajamas since it was just about 11am and she started crying for the phone. It was one of those automated things in the beginning of the call, so of course everytime Sydney cried, it would say "I'm sorry, I didn't get that, could you repeat what you said" type of thing and I couldn't help but be a little frustrated. So I took her to her room and set her in her crib with just a diaper on. I had asked her to be quiet and not cry several times and so she was going to her crib for a 1 minute time out, which she understands now by the way, so no worries about her being too young for time outs. She knows what they are. And when I ask her if she needs a time out when she does something she knows she isn't supposed to, she looks at me and says "no no no". She knows. And it is never longer than a minute or 2 because she will forget almost instantly why she is even in timeout. Time outs really should be based on age I think. She is 1 1/2, so 1 to 1 1/2 minutes timeout is just perfect.

I went back to my room, leaving her crying in her crib saying that she was in time out, and I finished my phone call within two minutes. 

I walked back into her room and found her sound asleep. She had found her pacifier, her favorite blanky,  butt up in the air, no fan on and her door wide open. I guess she was tired. She never falls asleep when her door is wide open. It was pretty cute.

Today I had my 34 week checkup and my stomach is measuring just fine now. I didn't think I was small, so I think she just didn't measure me well two weeks ago. Here is a cruddy shot from this morning... I feel huge and just want to be done now. I started getting all of Sydney's baby clothes out, and I have washed them all and put them away in the little dresser we have next to the portacrib in our room. I need to pack a bag for the hospital still and wash the car seat stuff and all the burp clothes. And then I think I am pretty much ready. Gabe is still working hard, doing some extra hours this week. I keep wondering what we will do if Sophie DOESN'T come over Christmas Break... I'd hate for Gabe to have to take off any time, when he has those two weeks off for the break. Cross your fingers and pray that she will come when she is ready and that that time will be at the beginning of the break!!