During the Sacrament hymn: “Dad, this song is kind of scary.” It’s just slow. “No Dad, this one’s a little bit scary.” And he then refused to go up and sing with the primary for our Christmas Program. But he volunteered for another prayer in junior primary and he’s already given 2 talks in his first year of sunbeams.
I stopped by the mall last week and Santa was there taking pictures with all of the kids. As we walked by Benji says, “that’s a pretend Santa mom – not the real one.” I don’t know where he got that idea. I told him it just didn’t look like Santa because he wasn’t wearing his big red coat. I’m not sure if he bought it or just let it go. I think one of the problems is that 50% of Christmas Specials are about not believing in Santa – I think they have put these ideas in our young children’s heads – boo.
He also took the time to try and understand the game of football today!! that made both of his parents proud!! He could read the score and figure out which one was the Packers. It was neat to see his mind grasping all of this new knowledge.
Cali crawls in circles when she is happy. She also gets shy and squeezes her eyes shut in a real cute way. She stood up for 30 seconds yesterday! She can only do that when she doesn’t realize that she is doing it. We opened a present today and Cali got hers open quick – I think the birthday this month got her ready for Christmas morning. She is also very protective of her mom. She refuses to share my lap with either of her brothers and throws a giant fit until she gets her way.
Cali’s not so goods would be her bad habit of throwing her food on the ground when she is full and purposely feeding it to the dog! and the poop dripping out the back of her diaper this afternoon was not fun. I’m just glad it wasn’t at church. And on that same note I am averaging 4 stinky diapers a day from her! (add 4 from her older brother and you can see what I do all day.)
Packer disappeared after church – he spent an hour in with the nativity set and lined up all of the people and animals and was holding his little nursery handout and comparing the Mary and Joseph and Baby Jesus. He wanted all of us to see that they matched.
He is getting so big – really outgrowing the baby stage all together. After Benji peed in the dryer he let me know that it is not good to do that. His biggest problem right now is fighting with his little sister. He gets mad when she grabs his toys or sits on the car mat. She is very grabby and Packer just can’t handle her in the middle of his games. So we are working on teaching both children to get along and play nicely together.
On a side note – we played outside yesterday!! The snow is sticking around but the sun was actually out and Benji was having fun Shattering the snow ice. Cali played outside for a bit but I made her come in and watch from the window…
This morning I built a fort for the kids – they are loving it…
and the more annoying part of the Cali problem is that I have been trying to get her eating schedule figured out with the switch to real milk, trying to get the constipation and stomach aches under control. So today I was making sure not to give her her bottle too soon and I ended up with a hungry grouchy baby. Do I go get her out of bed or do I let her cry herself back to sleep?
This is all 4 families ready to drive to Cabela’s:
and all of the Cousins with Santa: 3 of the 4 families are missing their youngest child in the group shot – why are little ones always afraid?
After Cabelas we all had lunch together and then that night a group of us went to the Hale Center Theater in Orem and watched “A Christmas Carol” – they do a great job with that play – we all loved it – my husband loved it the most. He is a Christmas Maniac, his middle name should be Santa or Nicholas. Sunday we got together with some of my extended family for my cousins baby blessing. And then we were off to the Hancock Wassel party – where I got to drink Grandma Robertsons Christmas Punch and eat too much and visit with friends. That was our fun weekend. That 2 and half days always goes to quickly, then you throw a party or two in and it really flies by.
This is just a fun picture of Packer, Benji, Camry and Pacen – we hadn’t seen these guys in a week or two so they were happy to be back together last week and the fruit by the foot was obviously the cause for smiles in this pic.
The first day of pink eye my little cali baby had a left eye swollen shut:
The 2nd Day of pink Eye my little Cali Baby had 2 red eyes:
The 3rd Day of pink Eye my little Cali Girl had a Right eye Swollen good:
The 4th Day of Pink Eye my little Cali Girl was almost looking normal:
On the 5th Day of Pink Eye my little Cali girl had her pretty blue eyes BACK:
and played with the new toys:
family came over for cake:
Cali swiped the cake after singing:
and no surprise she was a champion cake eater:
best for last – I love that she is holding up a number 1 – smart girl:
And on this first birthday she has PINK EYE (so sad). She looks pretty beat up. We went to insta- care yesterday to get it under control. She is actually full of smiles even if they are just with one eye. She has passed the Eye goo on to me so that stinks and Benji was the first to have it – I’m hoping that Ben and Packer don’t get it but it’s almost inevitable. We spent yesterday cleaning and sanitizing the entire house. My hands are raw from washing them. Please let us be done with this soon.
This is the best Christmas Decor. The kids love it and I think it really helps remind us what Christmas is all about.
And Benji is addicted to video games.
