I was meaning to post this on Monday, but time seems to slip away from me these days...OOPS!

Monday was a day, for some reason, my logical rational thought process was missing...

That night, I thought....hmmm....why don't I teach Livvie how to use a spoon? That would be perfect, 'cause then I won't have to spoon feed her all the time! Great idea, right?

Wish I would have stopped there. Why I decided to give her carrots that were almost pure liquid is beyond me, but that's what I chose... Below is what transpired with the whole 'learning the spoon thing'...

Then, if that wasn't enough, Avery asked me to do something for her too....

Bring up her GIANT doll house and put it into their already jam packed room...

Avery can barely get into her bed, and I can barely squeeze myself between the house and Liv's dresser to change her. I wonder if that's why she has been wearing the same outfit a lot lately...

Anyhow, in other news....

Tuesday I went to the BIG town (ha ha) to go Christmas shopping. I dropped Avery off at school at 8:15, and off I went. I shopped, let me tell ya! But, the best part of the day....I went to Olive Garden....a-l-o-n-e, and ate a-l-o-n-e, and looked at no one, and had soup and salad a-l-o-n-e! It was wonderful, let me tell ya!

So, now it's Wednesday, and tomorrow Avery is Mary in the school play thing. She is very excited, and we are charging up our camera and video camera to get FULL coverage!

The girls are in bed, and PG and I are watching VH-1's 100 greatest songs of the 90's, and we are having so much fun!!!!

As I was dropping Avery off to school, I looked around the parking lot at the cars surrounding me...

I was surrounded by SUV's and Mini Vans. My cute little 2000 Kia Sephia was in the minority!

We've had this car since February 2001, and it has been a great little car to us.

Did I ever tell ya? When we got pregnant with Livvie, we had 4 eggs release, so up until our 6th week of pregnancy, we didn't know how many babies we were going to have! We freaked out a bit, and almost got a van, but in the long run....we didn't need it!

I don't know what the point of this post is...I guess I just noticed how many "families" don't have 4 door cars anymore...

except us...we have 2 of them...

Livvie has always been a child that will not soothe herself to sleep. She needs to be held until she falls asleep, or she just needs us to be "there" with her.

This last week, I have decided, that this child of mine needs to learn to go to sleep on her own. It has not been going great, but it has been going well. I am very surprised by that, I have to admit.

At nap times, and at bed time, I will put her in her crib...tired...but not asleep. She will scream and cry for a little while, but each time she cries less and less...

This is not a fun part of parenting. She is a very strong willed child, so I look forward to seeing if we can "break" her of her ways.....

Just don't tell her I'm doing this...

It's such a fun time of the year...

Being sick last week, we found a channel that was very family friendly...ABC Family Channel! The great news is that they're doing this fun 25 days of Christmas thing, where they play Christmas movies all the time! We've had fun watching the old Christmas movies I watched as a kid, and some of the new ones, like Polar Express, have been on too!

What I wasn't expecting, is how quickly my little 5 year old daughter's brain hears and remembers things...

For example...

On the way home from church Sunday, she said to me, "Mom...I'm SO excited to watch "Holiday in Handcuffs" tonight!" Turns out, there was a fun TV movie that was advertised, and she picked up on it...She didn't watch it, in case you're wondering! (Even though it looked kinda cute...for grown ups!)

If that wasn't enough, this one is great....

Avery: "Mom....Next Saturday I'm going to watch the Snow globe show" (also a small TV movie on ABC Family that was being advertised).
Me: "Oh really?"
Avery: "Uh-uh...that's the one where she's stuck in a freakin' snow globe"...

yes, my innocent 5 year old said freakin'.....Again, overheard from a commercial! UGH!!!

ABC Family, we have really enjoyed your Christmas shows, but man oh man.....those commercials, I could do without!

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! We sure did! :)

Life is almost back to normal around here. Avery will go back to school tomorrow, and Daddy will also return to work. I worked today, and so far so good!

Funny thing tonight....Avery was telling Daddy the colors of the rainbow, and he didn't know them in order! I thought that was crazy....don't all teachers teach their kids that? I guess he must have skipped that day of kindergarten!

Christmas cards got off in the mail today! YIPPIE! I continue to enjoy getting all of yours! SO MUCH FUN!!!!

Well, Mr Flu finally made it's way into Gavin's stubborn body, so now our whole family has shared in this lovely gift.

There's nothing like having a Pastor for a husband, who gets sick at 6:30 Saturday night, and is supposed to preach in the morning....

I'll be heading to church tomorrow to see what our two fun "20 something" leaders decide to whip up!

You all better get out your Lysol and spray down your computer, even if you just LOOKED at my page in the past week....this flu is so potent, I'm sure it's somehow figured out how to get into your computer too!!!

Livvie is back to her normal self now. It was some sort of 24 hour bug that is going around. Today was her first day back on solids, and we have yet to give her milk...that's for tomorrow...

hope you all are well!!!!!

P.S. Thanks for the Christmas cards y'all! I SO enjoy getting them, so thank you! I'll get mine off by Monday, hopefully!

We're still here in A-TOWN.....

Just to give you a taste of what we're going through, the newspaper this morning said...

I love first snowfalls and all, but not too keen on the giant amounts of snow...

Wedding was great, I have TONS of photos to go through!