a few pics

miss and i made sugar cookies, but she really didn't need my help very much. 

 she was rolling them out, cutting them out, and putting them on the trays without my help

bitty seemed to enjoy them

 miss has taken to spelling out letters every chance she gets

this is the countdown chart i made for o, we're down to 60 days :) come on february!

i should've set up the video camera for making this. after everything bailey's been through, you'd have thought dipping her foot in paint was worse than having part of her lung taken out lol. HYSTERICAL.

 this was about 2:30am when we finally got done setting everything out

and this was yesterday, me having a tea party with the princesses and miss nibs.

on christmas eve charlie and i got up early and cooked. i made lasagna, he made chicken parm. then i baked the crack brownies, a cranberry scone thing, and cranberry upside down cake. then we got ready and went to a 5pm church service. o went in the 3 year old room and had a blast, we held bailey. our church isn't very traditional and does some louder good music, bailey loves it though. they played "little drummer boy" with about 6 guys with a big drum instrumental, it was really nice. it's good to celebrate the meaning of the holiday and not forget. i've been reading the bible a lot lately and it just seems to take something off my shoulders to put my faith in something higher again. i used to love going to church when i was little, and then things changed. it's nice to be back there again. and it's nice to have charlie go with me. i was raised catholic, he was raised baptist, so for us to be able to find somewhere we can both go to is huge. after that we came home and did jammies and tried to put the kids to bed.

she made out pretty well this year. the mommy and daddy gift was the disney trip. she also got the swingset, puzzles, a stuffed animal from one of her favorite books, a book, a board game, tea set, games for her innotab, tons of nightgowns, clothes, shoes, hair accessories, a bracelet, her ornament, a year of abcmouse.com from her great-aunt, a jacket, a ride on barbie car from carly and casey (she's obsessed), art stuff, a barbie golf cart for her little dolls, candy, a few other dolls. very cool to see her face, she was actually starting to get tired of opening stuff by the end, but she persevered and then opened all of bailey's stuff and helped me and charlie finish opening our stuff :)

i got a pandora bracelet with a bunch of charms that charlie had let me pick out, and an amazing crock pot. i got a dutch oven from my parents, some gift cards to restaurants and amazon. lots of awesome stuff. 

charlie liked his stuff, i got him a few games for the ps3 (he was up till after midnight last night playing assassin's creed 3 and he had to be up for 5am to work lol), a buccaneers golf case for all of his golf stuff that holds shoes, balls and accessories. i got him some golf stuff, like tees, a golf club cleaner, towel, golf boxers (don't ask, they are the same material as golf shirts that wick away sweat and he loves them), and an electric razor. 

klausie got a cindy lou who toy and bunny cat got a catnip mouse which he's been making a moron out of himself over for the past several days :)

my house is torn up right now, i'm going through the kitchen and have 2 boxes filled with odds and ends that i'm gonna drop off at good will, including my old crock pot with the missing knob. it still works though, i just used it a few weeks ago. 

i'm gonna go try to to put away some christmas stuff later too so i can get bailey's room back in order. it looks like christmas puked in there, there's open totes and stuff all over the place. 

i've noticed a real difference in bailey the last week, she seems more content finally when she's awake. there was a while that it was really a short window of her being happy before she had to be swaddled and put down to nap, now she's more alert and smiles. she coos. it's so nice to see. she's passed out in her swing right now because she's that kid that insists on movement. i bought an ergo baby carrier so we can go for walks at night because she hates the stroller.

today i decided to bite the bullet again and attempt a day of panties with olivia. so far so good, wish us luck. i've got to get this kid potty trained. wouldn't it be nice if we could get that accomplished before disney? 

i'm gonna go try to make some weight watchers french onion soup in my new crockpot :)