Just a Few Thoughts

Tess just turned 10 months on Friday the 12th. I can't believe she is so old already! I'm so excited for Christmas for her this year because she has literally NO girl toys thus far, so at Christmas and then two weeks later, her birthday, I am excited for her to get some girly things!

My entire house is fighting colds, allergies, and pink eye. Even my daycare kids have been in and out the last two weeks with fevers, tummy aches, goopy eyes, headaches, etc. My kids have been afflicted by the same illnesses.

I have been working part-time at Toys R Us for their seasonal rush and to my kids I am a celebrity because of it. I think it's funny that they drool over the thought of working with toys all day. I even went so far as to autograph a piece of paper for Raymond! ha ha. Raymond gets to cash in his birthday gift from Grandma Holly tomorrow night because she always takes them to Toys R Us to pick out a toy for their birthday. I have to work, so I am excited to see him at work!

Owen has two loose teeth and I keep vigorously wiggling them because one of them should be falling out any day now, and I am as excited about them falling out as I was when he got his first teeth! :) While Owen's loosing teeth, Tess is growing teeth like a crazy person. She has her bottom front four, her top front two for sure, but now is getting her other top front two to make the top four, and her top molars are coming through. That will give her a grand total of 10 teeth! That means she only will have 6 left. Crazy. Poor baby has goopy goopy eyes right now on top of the teething pain.

Raymond had his first playdate with a non-daycare kid today. I was so excited for him. His friend Will from preschool called last night to invite him over to his house after preschool today for lunch and some play time. He was very excited. He talks about Will all the time, and from what I hear Will talks about Raymond all the time. That makes me so happy, the kind of happy where you get teary eyed to know that Raymond has his first real friend. It gives me hope of him making friends next year at Kindergarten because he is shy kid when he's away from home, so I was a little concerned. His two years of previous preschool didn't result with any friends because he wouldn't talk to anyone. :( But this year when I get to his school early and they happen to be outside I hear all different kids yelling his name to come play with them. awwww.

Judd is not doing much at the moment. He's been potty trained since mid Sept, but is back in pull-ups because pooping in the potty suddenly is not consistent. Some days he tells me, other days he sneaks off to his bedroom upstairs and then comes down and tells me to change his pull-up. How aggravating! But the last couple of days has yielded no accidents, so maybe he's catching on. He used to poop in the potty, that's why it is so frustrating!

Anyways, that's a little snippet of what's going on with each kid. We will be spending Thanksgiving here in Omaha with Tony's mom. We were going to MO to visit my family, but with my new part time job at Toys R Us, I have to work black Friday (mandatory), and we can't afford to go out of town. Very sad about that.

Judd and Tess napping (they don't look like they are napping, do they?)

What every kid is doing these days, perusing the Toys R Us Big book Christmas catalog. (My house has 12 of them)

She looks like a toddler here!!!

Tess playing with a Strawberry Shortcake doll a daycare girl brought and shared with her. She really liked it.

She's so stinking cute!

My Tessie.

Do I even need to ask how cute she is??

Or him??

She says "Mom, I'm playing. Please stop taking pictures of my cute pig tails!"

Me as a dorky Toys R Us employee. :)

Kids playing in the snow we had last weekend in our neighbors front yard.

Well here are just a couple of cute pictures of a couple of my kids! Happy Thanksgiving all!