Oh no mouse!

Merry Christmas! We have spent a quiet day at home. Except for Alice upchucking all over me and the couch. Ah yes good times. She went back to bed and took a 2 hour nap before noon. This certainly makes us glad we did not travel.

We opened all our presents this morning and so far Daniel has shown the most excitement about his. I think Castlevania for the Wii is a hit. Daniel says he was trying to enjoy his presents. :-)

We are at least attempting a bit of a holiday by having homecooked meals. We had french toast for breakfast (too bad we ran out of syrup), taco salad for lunch, and we bought a pork roast to cook in the crockpot for dinner.

As for the title of this blog post...

Last night we were sitting on the couch watching a movie when Alice yells "Oh no mouse!" I wasn't sure I heard her correctly, so I asked "mouse?" and she replied "Yes. Look." Then grabs at Thomas (who was on the floor in front of the couch.

Eeeek!

Thomas had eaten a chocolate cookie and his face was coated. When you are barely 3, sometimes mouth is pronounced mouse.

Always playing catch up!

Its December!

Daniel has a week left of school. Yay!

Alice goes potty in the toilet...sometimes.

Its getting cold, but still no snow.

Thomas is walking quickly now. Not quite at running, but he is getting there.

I am knitting. Currently in progress, a red and blue KU inspired hat. If only I could find a button in the shape of a jayhawk. Also in progress. A crown for ALice. Its greens and browns so its totally a Wood Faerie crown. I only have 2 inches of it, so we will see if I get sick of it before I get the 18" or so done.

The spiffy fridge we got in a trade is almost clean of mold. I bought a hand steam cleaner thing to help finish it up. I still need to call and harass some ladies who are having babies this month to see if they want/need help from the ward. Pregnant ladies are hard to get hold of. Especially when the computer won't attach to a monitor...so calling back missed calls is hard to do. BUT! We got the replacement joiner thing, and its FIXED! Daniel doesn't know it already came because he is at work, and they had a team lunch so he spent his time cooking eggs on the griddle and talking instead of calling.

Oh and I have gotten ALice to expand her horizons in the world of food via a trick I read about. She gets her lunch in a mini muffin tin. Each hole gets something (a carrot stick, part of a sandwich, a slice of aple, etc). Today she ate everything except 2 pieces of cheese. That is a SHOCKER. The girl usually would choose cheese over most foods. I think peanut butter and honey was a much bigger hit than pb&blueberry butter or tuna sandwiches though. She actually ate ALL of the sandwich. I am glad about this because she has been begging less for treats (and eating less of them. Plus the fact that she is eating veggies without bribery is awesome! Carrot sticks or carrot coins are a hit. Celery isn't as popular, but she will eat it. And broccoli is always popular.

Daniel has a new-ish calling at church. He is the secretary of the Elder's Quorum. And he has officially been released from cub scouts. He pretty much rejoiced learning that.

Oops, catch up again

Everyone is sick! With varying degrees of illness. Nothing completely debilitating, but lots of fatigue, runny noses, etc. Daniel went in to work for a few yours yesterday and came back home. He has today apprived off, but he might go in for a little bot. He hasn't specified.

Thomas is starting to climb everything. He lept off the arm of the couch yesterday, unfortunately he can't fly. Head injuries bleed a lot. When We got him up we were sure if it was a bloody nose and smeared up, or a scraped eyebrow and smeared down. He is currently sporting a pirate look.

Relief Society did a service project making scarves and hats for the homeless shelter. I took home a LOT of fleece from that. I ended up with almost 3 dozen scarves at the end. And there were over a dozen made the night we met together, plus several other people took partly finished ones home to complete. It makes me feel good that we made so many.

In conjunction with the scarf project, I finally bought new bobbins. I kept having issues with crazy thread jams. And surprise! I was using the shorter (semi)universal bobbin and needed the taller one. Sewing with the proper equipment makes sewing so much nicer! The last dozen scarves went SUPER fast and ZERO jam ups.

We also got Netflix about a week ago. Netflix on demand is crazy. It has made borrowing movies from the library obsolete for us. Speaking of the library, the bill passed in the last election. We knew it would happen even though we voted against it. Whoever gets that construction contract is gonna be sitting pretty. $18 million dollars to add another floor to the library, make it more energy efficient and build a parking garage. Yes it will only be an addition of 2mills on the property taxes, but the loan they are taking for this is more than 10 times the state mandated limit (hence the vote). But, yeah our town really likes to vote in additional taxes for new/better public services.

Time to catch up...

- Thomas stands on his own for about 30 seconds to a minute at a time. ^-^

- Alice loves dresses. She hates pants. We need to get some knee high sock or something since its getting cooler. That and some more fall style dresses.

- I have been crazy busy with church stuff. Calling here, calling there, throw in some visiting teaching, etc.

- Daniel is going to be on call this weekend. O.O They are buying him minutes for his phone and he will get paid for an additional hour of work. He will get a call and have to be there within the hour. They are doing software testing or something.

- We are going to have the siding on the back of the house replaced. Siding and the gutters. We haven't got the price total yet, but I am expecting in the $2000 range. Maybe more if I decide we should replace the windows at the same time. Which would be nice. Just more $ for materials and labor.

No soup for you!

Alice is stingy. Like really stingy.

We popped pop corn this evening right around scripture time. I was holding it during scriptures. Both her and Thomas was swarming me, but she took pop corn out of his hand and pushed him away a few times.

Then she decided that he had broken her 'rules' too many times. (or perhaps I had)

She grabbed the bowl of pop corn and cuddled up to Daniel in the chair across the room. Every time he said to take the pop corn to me, she would grab a reasonable {tiny} piece and hand {throw} it to {at} me.

We thought maybe it was because Thomas was there. The next time she did it, I had Daniel grab Thomas. Well, I still was not allowed to have the pop corn.

Clearly 2 yrs 9 months is when you start holding grudges. High Five Alice for making us reference Seinfeld. Stingy good vibes for the pop corn thing though.

:-/

Cat, cat CAT! And colored string.

I am hosting a yarn co-op for a cloth diaper forum I belong to. If you are a string Luhvrrr and want to buy some Cestari yarn. Check out my order form here {I am a link click me}.

And...Alice finally figured out this is not a cat.

I have the doll partway assembled now, I just haven't take more pics yet.

She saw it and was Cat, Cat! Cat. CAT! CAT! (etc)
I finally let her have the doll because there are lots of pins and a needle in the rear and I knew a scuffle would have someone stabbed.
She lays it down in front of the TV then says...a baby? Awww, a baby. So the baby got bundled and shushed to sleep.