Googily-goo

Here are some updated pictures of my girl who has become known as goo-goo or googily-goo in our house. I'm not quite sure how Annabelle morphed into googily-goo, but it went something like this "Annabelle-girl" to "Annabelle-girllll" (drawn out until it sounded like goo, this is all done by Jackson you see) to "goo" to "googily-goo". And to think we spent all of that time deciding what to name her :). She is a doll, even now as she has decided for some reason since her surgery on Monday to put tubes in that she does not need to sleep. Exactly the opposite of what we had planned. She is currently crawling around tearing up my bedroom at 10:30, I gave up trying to put her to sleep, as I am doing this.
These days she is getting into everything, crawling on all fours backwards, and dragging herself with one arm tucked under to get forwards, not sure why the difference. She is ultra independent and wants down as soon as she's done nursing. She is into everything and can find every tiny piece of inedible everything and eat it before I can get to her no matter how many times of day I vaccum. She has begun to clap, and thinks she is very cool when she does this smiling at everyone. She also says Dadan everytime Kurt says it to her, and never for me. She is smiling at least 90% of her awake hours even now at 10:30. She is a doll and I feel so lucky to have such a smily joyful little person in my life. It is going way to fast. Alright, enough motherly babbling, here are some pictures of Annabelle enjoying some food that doesn't come from Mom and some pictures of her playing today.



Green beans are yummy.

I tried to get a picture that captured her clapping, this is as close as I came.

big boy haircut

Ok, so when three people in one week commented on "her pretty hair", Kurt put down his foot and said that it was time for a big boy cut. Here are pictures in the hair salon, he did amazing and just sat there quietly watching the whole thing.

In the car ride home.

From Snow to 75 degrees

Here are some pictures from our fun day at the park on Sunday. It was 75 and gorgeous on Sunday so we all went to the park and played catch and soccer and had a picnic. Also, included are some pictures from an impromptu swing on a vine that Dustin convinced us to try. Seizing the moment is fun...

Let It Snow

We finally got snow!!!! Not just a little snow but 5-6 inches fell last night and through the morning. It's great! Jackson and I had a blast this morning playing in the snow. Lame Wal-Mart doesn't even stock any form of sleds so after trying large tupperware lids, trashcan lids, etc.. I settled on a trash bag which works fairly well. The snow wouldn't pack that well so no snowman this morning, but Jackson and I are about to go out for part three and try again. The funniest part of the whole thing is that the gov. declared NC in a state of emergency, because of 6 inches of snow. Everything is shutdown, it's hilarious.

Snow Angels

Snow tastes good, not really...

First Snow

I want to be Church

I just wanted to share a funny story about Jackson. Jackson has begun to pretend to be different things and wants to be called by that throughout the day. The other day he came out of his room and told me that he wanted to be church. I was confused and told him that we did not have church that day, just a day at home. He said no, I want to be church. I told him I didn't know what he meant, and he told me that he needed Daddy's tie. I gave him Kurt's tie and he went and got a church shirt out of his closet and his church pants and shoes. He put them all on and then came out and said "there I'm church." I then told him to go sit down for lunch and he told me, "no, I'm not Jackson call me church, I'm church. " So I had to call him church for the rest of the day. Where do they get this stuff.

Snowman Day

I finally completed, what might be my most proud accomplishment of my mommy life... snowman jammies. If you understood how much my son loved jammies you would understand how excited I was to give these to him. Since I didn't make the original deadline of Dec 1st as planned I decided to make a whole cool day of it called snowman day. And since we live in a place where snowmans don't exist this is as close as we are going to get for snowman day.

Jackson had school that day so I sent him to school with a snowman sandwich and snowflake cutouts of white cheddar cheese. When he got home I gave him his jammies which turned out to be pretty big on him, so I need to take up the arms and legs. He thought they were pretty cool at first.

We had snowman cupcakes and drank milk from a cool snowman cup.

Unfortunately the activities I had planned did not happen since I had to babysit a friend of his and Annabelle refused to nap and was truly high-maintenance that day.

About 45 minutes after he had them on he came out of his room hot and sweaty from playing and annoyed about the long legs and sleeves and told me that he wanted to change. I said "oh, let's keep your cool new jammies on". He said "I don't like them" and I said "oh, jackson mommy made those jammies for you." He replied, "oh, I'm sorry mommy, don't be sad (pause) but I don't like them." Crushing. Maybe when they fit they will be the hit I had hoped for.I then rebounded by making snowman pancakes with sausage (while holding the still fussing Annabelle in one arm) on my special snowman plate and a few snowman books before bed. Ever have one of those days that you visualize in your mind as being so great and it turns out not at all as you planned... snowman day.

Under the tree

Whenever Annabelle is quiet we know where she is. First she will lay there and stare up at the lights and then when she decides she's ready she suddenly attacks the tree and pulls down lights, branches and ornaments. This very unsafe light intanglement happened in moments after a diaper change. Don't worry she really is quite supervised I promise.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! Sorry to all who were waiting for a card and didn't receive one. We decided to save some money this year by forgoing Christmas cards. Here are the pictures that we took as possibilities for the cards that we did not buy, so Merry Christmas, here's your card! I have to be honest and say that the two good ones were snapped by Kurt as it seems I can take 10 without a result and every time Kurt snaps one it is perfect.

Ok, Annabelle doesn't look great here but I thought Jackson looked cute. I can't believe it's only a week until Christmas! Where has the time gone this month? I hope everyone is enjoying the season and takes time to slow down and enjoy the last week, as I am desperately trying to do.