Sick!

Today has been interesting. We started it at the ER with Aubree suspecting a concussion, but now we are sick! I will save the ER trip for when I can see straight! Our entire house (minus Brandon for now) has the stomach bug. It's pretty bad when you have to share a puke bucket with your six year old is all I have to say. Never in my life have we all felt so bad at one time. I just wanted to document it on the blog so in years to come I can look back on January 31st, 2011.

Santa

Even though I'm a little behind on blogging, Santa did indeed stop in Lake Wylie. He was pretty good to all of us.

Aubree was up first at about 7:15, then we waited for the boys to get up. Anderson was up next and we had to wake Grayson up around 7:45. Grayson wasn't in any mood to see the loot, so he had to have a moment at the top of the stairs to "wake up!" Aubree and Anderson were very eager to see what the big man had left. After Grayson got over his unhappiness, he decided to join the rest of us.

Love, Love, Love this picture! I just love the excitement in his face. You can see Grayson trying to wake up as well!
Anderson was so excited. He started ripping into his stuff before I could turn around good.

This is pretty much how I found him two minutes later after he had opened everything, therefore I didn't get many shots of his gifts.

Aubree was super excited about her Ariel Princess Gown that she practically ripped her Dora jammies off to get the gown on.

Poor thing! Still not awake.

And this is how "The Cin-Cess" proceeded to unwrap the rest of her gifts. She has on her "Cin-cess"gown, Ariel Sunglasses and light up princess jelly shoes.

Grayson is coming around to the Santa thing

Phineas and Ferb watch

We had such a wonderful Christmas with our sweet babies!

Interruption!

We interrupt the regularly scheduled post for breaking news of firsts! We now have a snaggle-tooth living with us! Finally after about a month and a half of a wiggly wobbly tooth, it came out while Anderson was eating dinner tonight. It got really loose after church today while we were in the mall. Brandon got some of the candy bones out of the gumball machine for the kids and after Anderson bit down on one it really got loose and a little bloody. It gave Brandon and I both the willies watching him push it back and forth and seeing the blood... We have a long way to go with three kids losing lots of teeth. Anderson continued to play with it all afternoon and while eating it came out. We all got so excited until Anderson saw the blood and got a little upset himself. It's already in his "Tooth Fairy" pillow waiting on her to come and visit tonight. Word on the street is the tooth fairy brings $5 for the first tooth! He looks so cute as a snaggle tooth.

I gave the boys long overdue haircuts today since it was a decent January day. Aubree kept saying "My turn next" so we decided we could cut the very ends off to make her think she was getting one. We wrote it down in her baby book as her first "haircut" but you can't even tell I cut anything since her curls just spring up when they dry and I cut the tiniest bit off.

Christmas Eve

Christmas was wonderful again this year! It gets more fun each year with our little ones. We spent Christmas Eve in Spartanburg like we always do, with my parents and my Maw Maw. On Christmas Eve afternoon, we always open gifts with Mattie and Pappy and Uncle David, Aunt Rebekah and Keslynne. We tried to get all of the grands together to get a decent picture and this is what we came up with.

Aubree was really excited about gifts this year, but still overwhelmed. She was especially excited about all of the chocolate in her stocking from M & P.
Beautiful Kessie
Grayson liked his candy too!

Aubree got some help from Keslynne

Can you tell she's saying "Open"

We then went to my Aunt and Uncle's house to celebrate with my grandmother. After dinner we headed back to Lake Wylie and got the house ready for the Jolly Man himself! We had to leave him some cookies, milk and a note. Looks like Aubree is enjoying some of Santa's cookies.

Next we had to put out some magical reindeer food... Boy, it was cold doing that!

Notice, Grayson is barefoot!

Coming up in the next post, Christmas morning!

Christmas Songs

My uncle Tommy wanted each set of Great Grands to sing some songs for my grandmother at Christmas this year. My three were delighted to do so. We have been singing "Go Tell it on the Mountain" ever since Grayson learned it for his preschool Chistmas program. We sing it every night while doing baths. He also taught his brother and sister "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and the hand motions. I think they did a really sweet job. Just don't listen to my voice!!!! :)Notice how Aubree gets in some of the words.

Get a Clue

I grew up loving board games! Anderson has really been on a board game kick this last month. Mattie got him Toy Story Yahtzee and he played it at least 10 times a day. Grayson got the hang of playing it too so that was good for both of them. About a week and a half ago I was out Christmas shopping and saw the game Clue. I LOVED this game growing up and was pretty good at being tricky and winning! We have Clue, so that night we had a Clue game night with Bryan and Jenn and of course I won! Anderson got really interested in the game and had to sit with us to try to figure out the game. The ages on Clue are 8 and up, so I didn't think he would "get" it. That Sunday Brandon taught him the concept of the game and by Monday he was wanting to know how to play strategically like tricking people the way I do. Brandon only had to explain it to him once and he understood. He wants to play everyday and has it set up for as soon as Daddy gets home. Well fast forward a few days and he beat me and Brandon! Yesterday he beat us again! This boy surprises me everyday with him smarts! Needless to say there are a lot of board games on his Christmas list this year.

Sew What Mommy!

SEW..... That's where I've been! Sewing A LOT!!! If I'm not driving the kids around, taking care of them, running errands, doing chores or sleeping, I'm sewing. I love it! I have been hard at work making some super cute outfits for Aubree for the fall and Holiday season. I'm a sucker for Holiday outfits so why not just make my own, right? They have turned out so cute! She gets comments everywhere we go in her "homemade" things. Lots of people want to know where I buy them because they want to get one for someone, and since you can't buy them, I thought I would offer a way for people to see what I can make. With the help of my partner in crime, a.k.a Jenn (whom I have introduced the love of sewing and embroidery to) we have made a blog that people can come to in order to get some of the cute things we are creating! We've both done some sewing for others this fall. I made some stuff for a little girl in Anderson's class and have several other people I've done things for. It's a fun outlet for us since we have both been staying at home with the kids for 6 and a half years. If you want to check out our site, it's http://www.sewwhatmommy.blogspot.com/. I also have a link to it under my blog links. It's not really a business venture, it's more of a service that we are offering and it lets us be creative!