So, my girls say certain things all the time that I think are kind of funny. I had to write them down.
Sydney:
"That's SO SO cool".
"Um, I have a better idea."
"Can I tell you something? Let me whisper it in your ear".
"Um, yes, I think we need to do this".
"Mommy, I need some gum".
"It's game day baby!"
"Addyson, do you want to sing the Scooby Doo Christmas song? I'll teach you".
"Addyson, I need some alone time."
"Mom, you're not so smart sometimes." - okay, this one has started to make me feel bad, but I realize that I try to make her think I don't know how to do something, so she can do it and feel like she is smart...yeah, it's backfiring on me...now she' thinks I'm a dummy!
Addyson:
"No Way Ninnee!" (Ninnee means Sydney)
"MY mommy" (if someone even looks at me, she says this to them).
"It's late!" (with both her hands on her cheeks)
"bootball!" (football)
"mo lights!" (more lights....Christmas lights)
"I DID IT!"
"Cute".
"Push Play mommy".
"nigh-nigh geen light." (night night green light, to her smoke detector light)
"on noooo!"
"Annie house?" (Annie is what she calls my mom)
"Addie do it." (she calls herself Addie)
"Addie hold it."
"no mine, no mine, no mine" (really fast)
She's also learning how to negotiate...the other night I had made brownies, and she wanted one, so this is what she said....
A: "mo bownie?"
me: "no more"
A: "ONE bownie?"
me: "no"
A: "baby one?"
Travis and I just started laughing. It was so cute.
Thanksgiving
Yeah, I gots skillzzz...haha. j/k. It was fun to make this turkey cake for Sydney's pre-school "Thanksgiving Feast". The Feast consisted of turkey & cheese sandwiches, sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top, green beans, juice boxes, chips, apple slices, cake and cookies. The kids had a blast.
The kids were the indians and the parents were the pilgrims. Sydney made this had for me and her teacher wrote my last name on it. She left out the last "r", so it's Jarrad instead of Jarrard. Why does everyone do this? Do they think there are too many "R's" in our name, so they just leave one out? If it was spelled like this, it would sound like "Jared"...which about 60% of people pronounce our last name anyway, if they are just reading it.
The little indians....my little Indian looks scared in this picture! haha. Her indian name that she named herself was "Shy Raccoon"....haha. yeah right!We had another great Thanksgiving. It was just my parents, Travis, the girls and I, and my friend Shellie and her two kids, Kate and Dallen. Her hubby, Chad, had to work...bummer! I made the pies, Shellie made an awesome raspberry salad and my mom did the rest! Kate and Addyson are the same age and Sydney and Dallen are just a year apart, so they had so much fun together.
Honestly.....Thanksgiving always just seems like another meal to me. It's an awesome meal, and I LOVE it. It's special b/c we have things we don't normally have, like, cornbread dressing (it's a southern thing), sweet potato souffle' and turkey. The other things we have quite regularly...green beans, biscuits, mashed potatoes and gravy, etc.
So, is that bad? Should I feel like it's more special than I do?
This year, however, Sydney had a list of why she was thankful for Annie, Poppy, Daddy, Mommy and Addyson. It was cute.
I guess because I am blessed enough to see my Mom and Dad all the time and eat big dinners at their house all the time, Thanksgiving isn't much different. I get excited for it and I love it, but I love all the big dinners we have at my Mom's house. :)
Here Sydney is helping Grandma make the dressing...she's putting in the dry breadcrumbs before she does the cornbread. She was very proud of herself for helping.
After the "feast" my mom played 'go fish' with Dallen and Sydney.
So, as soon as Thanksgiving was over...the day after it was over....we got out the Christmas tree and the girls helped me decorate it. They had a blast. Sydney loved hanging the ornaments, and Addyson loved playing in the empty big tupperware bin that the ornaments were in. Sydney also helped me hang up all of our elves. But, like a loser, I didn't take any pictures. I did, however, take pictures of the girls helping my parents decorate their tree. I love tree decorating. It's so fun!! I also love that we always have eggnog when we decorate the tree. So yummy and festive. I love Christmas and am TOTALLY in the Christmas spirit. This year will be really fun now that Addyson is a little older.
And they got to have their faces painted.
Addyson is devouring a candy cane.
Some friends of ours were there too, which made it even more fun!
Sydney and I were invited to a mother/daughter Nutcracker dinner/ballet party. We had dinner at around 5:00, then the girls all got their own nutcracker, had the story read to them, then changed into their pretty dresses and we went to see the ballet of the Nutcracker at the Gwinnett Event center. It was so perfect. The girls all loved it.
We didn't head home until after 10:00, so the girls zonked out in the car....which is pretty much unheard of for Sydney to sleep in the car. I had to take a picture of it for Travis to believe it. :)
Decorating Annie and Poppy's tree.
Cleaning up the MESS the styrofoam popcorn things made after getting all the ornaments out.
