Wordless Wednesday: Ode To A Christmas Story

A Very Merry!

I think she likes her gift!

Ya know, I kind of suck at this blogging thing. I don't know why I can't seem to keep it up! And I'm not too sure how much my wordless Wednesday's count as blogging, since they are the majority of my posts. December was a whirlwind of activity, Christmas shopping, making Christmas presents, frantically writing cards at the last hour, ah, you all know how it goes. I'm a little bummed it was so busy I never had time to do my annual "big ass batch of cookies" I usually do and give out to friends. Sorry friends! I did however make sure to make one batch of the Rolo Cookies (Thanks, Ginny!) because they rock so much, and I had already bought the rolo's for it, but they ended up in our tummies, instead of other people's.... But the others I always do? Nada, nothing. I'll turn this into a positive though, and through the blah's of January, I'll make all those cookies I should have made in December!

Sadie and Luke making a work of art together.

Sadie opening her stocking.

Christmas was great this year. We spent it with John's family in NJ and we had such a great time seeing everyone. Sadie had a FABULOUS time with her cousin, Luke! She requests the video's we took of them together everyday now and giggles when she sees them. So cute! It was funny, she wanted to go and play with him every chance she got, but when it comes to toy sharing, oh boy, I wish I got paid every time I heard a stern "No!", cuz it was often! Sadie has recently starting hitting things (not hard, but still!) when she gets mad or frustrated, and well, Luke once was on the hitting end of that, and I hear from him "Sadie hit me!" Sorry, Lukie!! Sharing is hard, right?? We're working on it. :) The Irish/Italian blood is working against me though.

Sadie telling Luke, no, he can't play with his own toy.

Sadie received many wonderful things from Grandma, Grandpa, Aunts and Uncles. One of the big things they both got were cars for Christmas (Thanks Uncle Paul!), one girl-themed, one boy-themed, and you'd think since each got their own, there would be no cause for toy jealousy, right? Wrong! It was hysterical, each time one got in their car, the other had to have that same car too! I am glad we took a lot of video's, this stuff is priceless. How much stuff did we miss when we were kids because taking home video's wasn't that common? So much. Glad we are keeping record of so many memories. Here is a great video of the two of them very nicely sharing the same car! I love this one!

The day after Christmas, we loaded up the car and drove to the Berkshires to see my family for a couple days and celebrate a second Christmas with them. We had a great time! Our lucky girl got more fun toys to play with and she also got a homemade bathrobe from her Nana! I had been looking for one for her, so she could be just like her parents in the morning and she always gets chilly when she first wakes up, but I couldn't find any in her tiny size. So Nana surprised us by sewing her one, personalized even, and she loves it! She totally gets that its just like her Mommy's! This goes perfectly with her little plastic coffee cups that she takes sips out of then lets us know there is "coppee" in it. Thanks, Nana!

So, we did a lot of driving this Christmas (about 700 miles, with a toddler and two cats!) but it was completely worth spending time with both families, having Sadie have so much fun with her cousin, and us getting to spend some time with our nephew. He's such an amazing kid! Thanks for sharing all your toys with Sadie, Luke! :)

I hear talking coming from the baby monitor, which means mommy time is over, but hey, I got a blog in!

Wordless Wednesday: YO!!

(yes, she is actually saying "yo!" here, with the arm fold and all, and its seriously the funniest thing ever! need to get it on video! the addition of dad's hat adds a lot to her "yo!")