holiday happiness.

We enjoyed a lovely Christmas at home, just the four of us. Unfortunately, Pukesgiving turned into Shitmas in our house. Darn it, why can't we be healthy for a holiday? Connor starting the sickness, followed by Chloe. I enjoyed the illness when Chad and I were enjoying a night away from C&C at a great resort with an in-room whirlpool. Relaxing, yes. But it could have been better had I not been sick! But, we are all on the mend and settling in until our next trip to visit my family. I'll try to upload a few pictures soon.

Later,
Jennie

fascination.

Just showing us her TWO bottom teeth....

Connor kept going back to this "book" ornament. Guess he's already a Winnie the Pooh fan.

Even Chad shook a present to try to figure out what it contained.
C&C actually didn't touch any presents.

Chloe peeking into the tree behind Connor.

Love this picture. Chloe is delighted. Love that look on her face.

Chloe Claus and Daddy.

I put up the tree today. I put up ornaments that are not too breakable and candy canes. All I can say is that it was admired greatly, tugged on and admired some more. Not sure how long it will survive, but hopefully it will last until the evening of December 25th. I did manage to get some great pictures, and am sharing a few now. Only one candy cane and one ornament suffered during this brief tree vs. toddler meeting.

Ok...need to work on more Christmas goodies. Off to make cookies. Tonight I'll dip candy, at least enough to take for Chad's boss when we meet for lunch tomorrow. All four of us are meeting at a nice restaurant with no kid menu.....it should be interesting! Fortunately they are well behaved restaurant patrons.

Later, Jennie

walking machines!

Julio's new perch.

we found Julio hanging out here soon after bring him to his new home. He continues to chill out, out of read of human life.

Walking, walking, walking.

I knew this day would come, just not sure when it would happen. I was not sure who would walk first and if they would walk on the same day. Wonder no more! Connor and Chloe have both taken transition steps over the past few weeks, just not enough to say they were walking. I guess those were their first steps (note to self, add notes in date book for scrapbook pages). Well, this morning, Connor and Chloe were in the basement with Chad. I'm organizing coupons upstairs, getting ready to head out grocery shopping. Chad yells up at me. I head downstairs and see Connor taking steps! While I was out, Chloe got her competitive/stubborn streak and took off walking behind Connor! I was lucky enough to get pictures and video of the two of them walking before bed tonight.

Connor has been CRANKY lately, which is so unlike him. Chloe has been HAPPY lately, which is so unlike her. Now we know why!

I'm trying to get ready for Christmas. The tree is still in a box in the garage, along with the stockings and other Christmas decorations. My goal for this week is to get the tree out of the garage and into the house, decorated. I'm not planning to do full decorating this year, as I'm not sure how much help rearranging everything we'll have from two little people......

Today I made two batches of Starbucks liqueur fudge (one with, one without nuts), two batches of caramel (one plain, one with added pecans for turtles) and added another bag of coconut for the almond joy and mounds bars. My plan was to cut back in the amount of Christmas goodies I made this year....seems I doubled the almond joy/mounds amount and made a double batch of peanut butter cookie dough for the peanut butter treasures.....so, I've made it easier, yet still have lots to do. Fortunately, once I get to the point of dipping in chocolate, things tend to be easier. More tedious, but easier, if that makes sense.

I'm trying to upload photos...but my laptop is not recognizing the memory card from my camera. I'll try to upload a collection of photos from the desktop computer this week.

later, Jennie

Have people lost every sense of right and wrong.

If you were hauling a load of crap in the back of your truck and something fell off, wouldn't you turn around to pick it up? And, once you turned around and you saw that someone hit your piece of shit that fell off your truck, wouldn't you make sure everything was OK and leave your info?

Nope, not if it happens to us. Chad was on his way home from work and is unable to avoid a chair that fell off someone's vehicle. The offender turned around, stopped. Someone actually got out of their vehicle, crossed the road toward Chad. Chad was on the phone with the police, so he tried to talk to both at the same time. Chad asked the person who stopped if it was their stuff (why the hell else would they stop? They had a truck full of stuff, too). They said no, not their stuff and proceeded to get the hell out of there. So, his car is messed up, he's waiting for the cops and pissed off.

Well, there you go. Let's hope the rest of the night is half way decent and he can at least drive home without too much damage to his car.

And to the two women in their white Ford F-150 driving on highway 138 outside of Stoughton, Wisconsin.....get a conscious. Do the right thing. Karma bites hard.

ok, enough bitching.

15 month stats.

Ok...these are a bit late, but here they are! C&C had their 15 month appointment November 17th. We met their new pediatrician and he, along with the staff, seem nice. Hopefully we will only need to make regular, well child visits. I can at least hope!

Here are Chloe's stats:
22 lb 5 ounces, 42%
30inches tall, 36%

Connor:
23 lb 12 oz, 39%
31.5 inches tall, 63%

The office gave us a great hand out for each, which includes development info and medication dosages. Now I just need to keep it handy when I need to give medication.

I've started buying Christmas presents....I even have two wrapped. Ok, they were wrapped for me as I left Barnes and Noble. It was free, I couldn't resist!

I'll try to share photos soon.

Jennie