What a day...

a wet, cold day to be exact. We stayed home nearly all day Saturday--aside from a trip to the grocery store where my children were perfect angels despite the time being just before lunch and nap. After the grocery story trip, lunch, and nap (this has a very loose definition); W and L did Christmas crafts, built towers, made banana muffins, and watched a movie. I have a few things hung around the house from W when he was less than 2--he loved craft time. But, L doesn't really have anything so Christmas craft time was a must do!

Christmas crafts involve glitter--YIKES! It only comes out once a year because it takes nearly the whole year to get all the glitter up. W and L decorated snowflakes, Christmas trees, and circles as their little hearts desired. L had a blast. She was very serious and thorough with each of her projects. W really just wanted to deal in glitter, which made a BIG mess for me to clean up. The big clean up is totally worth all the fun.


W and L start off the Christmas crafting



Check out the mess!

W and L building their towers while waiting patiently for supper

W mashing bananas for banana bread. They both love to help bake. L is a little too helpful at times, but fun nonetheless. The both enjoy measuring, pouring and stirring

W and L eating popcorn while watching "The Race to Witch Mountain". L kept sneaking banana muffins, too.

And finally, the Christmas art for 2009

Reindeer Run

Saturday morning we got up, bundled up, and headed to Macon for the annual Reindeer Run/Santa Stroll with our friends, the Smiths. It is an annual fundraiser for the children's hospital in Macon. This was W's and L's first race (W is ready to do another one--I think we will in Jan.). We did the stroll which was 1 full mile including hills. W did great...as soon as Santa waved the flag to begin the race, W was off. He ran most of the way. Of course, he'll tell you he ran the whole thing and that he won! L ran a little, walked a little, and got carried a little. She gets a little nervous in large crowds, but I think she would have ran the whole way with W otherwise. The most exciting thing for L that day was SANTA! She just kept watching a him and pointing to him and whispering his name.





...and he's off! ( you see him, he is the littlest one in red)

waiting for us at the finish line.

The Crew

Soccer season is over...for now, that is. W is still really enjoying soccer. Aside from one "incident" he always looks forward to soccer. The one incident happened during a practice when W was playing rough with one of his teammates and then carried it over to one the girls. He pushed her over while she was dribbling the ball and that resulted in W having to run a lap around the field. He was so embarrassed, he never wanted to go back on the field. To bad for W, his mom has a "get back on the horse" policy. L was W's cheerleader this season. I made her a little shirt with the team name "CREW" on it (she is wearing W's old soccer uniform in the picture, she insisted!)and she went to every practice and game to support her big brother. W's turn is coming as soon as L is old enough to participate in sports/dance.

It is hard to hear the video of Coach Scott over the carrying on of W and his buddy Aiden--but, you can see W receive his trophy and the proud look on his face.

Hoedown

I know I have been a naughty blogger...I am catching up so Santa won't put me on the "THE LIST"!

A few weeks ago, W and I went to a school dance--the Mother-Son Hoedown. W wore his best western wear and was mighty dashing. We had a lot of fun. There were many activities including line dancing, carnival games, and a hay ride. The hay ride was by far W's favorite; we had to do that 3 times. W was excited to see one boy in particular from his class, he calls him John Pon (W's teach gave "nicknames" to everyone in the class for rhyming--W is William billiam). He is pictured with W.

Trick or Treat

Halloween was loads of fun for W and L. W was the Bumble Bee Transformer and L was a monkey. She was all set to be a bumble bee but when I found that monkey costume in a box, I knew it had to be worn one more time. I did have to squeeze her into the costume, though. The festivities actually started for them on Wednesday night when we attended "trunk or treat" at the base chapel with W's buddies Aiden and Ethan, followed by parties at school, and then Halloween day activities. We started Halloween night off at Publix (just in case later trick or treating got rained out) where both children played little carnival games that were set up in each of the grocery depts. and "won" candy. After that, we headed over to our friend's house--The Smiths...Phil, Tracy, Lindsay, and Jillian--and the tricking or treating started. The group of them happily went door to door and watched their bags fill with delicious and highly desired candy. Fun was had by both W and L...but, W pooped out long before L. You can see in one of the pictures that W is in the stroller and L is on the toddler step on the back.