Sunday, November 29, 2009
PS....
Thought I would mention one of the many things that we are most thankful for this season..... besides health, happiness, and love... we are most thankful for our growing family... to our soon to be newest addition, a son, due in March!
'Tis the Season
I love the holidays! Not just because it is a time of really good food, family and presents, but more for the sense of happiness, kindness and calm in society and of course all the pretty lights and decorations!
We spent Thanksgiving at my parents in GH and on our way in, the little town was full of normalcy... people walking their dogs, babies or themselves down the quaint roads, other people window shopping the stores... and surprising no one at the market doing last minute shopping, (only 4 cars including mine in the store parking lot). We had a lovely, quiet Thanksgiving with Isabelle running a muck, great food and all. We stayed a few days there, Isabelle having her own room with big girl bed and she did so GREAT!
The drive out of GH was so wonderful. Sometime on 'Black Friday' people got out their decorations and filled their homes and store fronts with beautiful holiday cheer. The street lights were decorated with wreaths and lights, stores were bright with greenery, lights, and glistening snowmen. People were out walking again, but now stopping and chatting with strangers they came across on the sidewalk, instead of silently walking past eachother. One lady was trying to put up some greenery around the edge of her store front and it fell, a nice man ran across the street to help her out, so she didn't have to get down the ladder and back up again.
It made me smile that people are so nice, why not be so nice all year long, one may wonder. When we see smiles on faces around us, it makes us smile too... we just need to remember to pass that along and smile to others... sometimes we have to be the first ones to smile, to start the kindness.
To all family and friends reading this, wishing you all the happiness you desire in this holiday season and more after in the year to come!
We spent Thanksgiving at my parents in GH and on our way in, the little town was full of normalcy... people walking their dogs, babies or themselves down the quaint roads, other people window shopping the stores... and surprising no one at the market doing last minute shopping, (only 4 cars including mine in the store parking lot). We had a lovely, quiet Thanksgiving with Isabelle running a muck, great food and all. We stayed a few days there, Isabelle having her own room with big girl bed and she did so GREAT!
The drive out of GH was so wonderful. Sometime on 'Black Friday' people got out their decorations and filled their homes and store fronts with beautiful holiday cheer. The street lights were decorated with wreaths and lights, stores were bright with greenery, lights, and glistening snowmen. People were out walking again, but now stopping and chatting with strangers they came across on the sidewalk, instead of silently walking past eachother. One lady was trying to put up some greenery around the edge of her store front and it fell, a nice man ran across the street to help her out, so she didn't have to get down the ladder and back up again.
It made me smile that people are so nice, why not be so nice all year long, one may wonder. When we see smiles on faces around us, it makes us smile too... we just need to remember to pass that along and smile to others... sometimes we have to be the first ones to smile, to start the kindness.
To all family and friends reading this, wishing you all the happiness you desire in this holiday season and more after in the year to come!
Saturday, November 14, 2009
The Big Bed!
Yesterday, Isabelle and I did a tiny bit of rearranging in her room, what I could do under my circumstances of being prego... so no lifting of anything... but I did unload books and toys from shelves, moved them into other corners and such. We made a space for the twin bed. Today, the 'big girl bed' (twin size - no wasting of money on a toddler bed) arrived at 1:15 (yeah for sleep country!! they showed in the beginning of their 1-3pm window). They brought it all in, set it up and placed it in the space waiting. Then Eric put together the safety guard rails and on went the lavender sheets and case on the pillow and bed was ready!
Isabelle was ready for her nap too, she was so EXCITED to climb in and get on her pillow and under the pillows. So we said night night and night night she went! She slept for 3 hours and the best of all... NO BA!!! (AKA pacifier). We have been talking to her for a few weeks now that the 'ba' is going to go to the 'ba' fairy when the big bed got here. She didn't even ask for it. :)
Here's hoping that tonight will be just as successful.
The one thing that we learned in all this... Don't move / rearrange too much in one day. We wanted to move in a bookshelf that is currently in the guest room (soon to be another nursery), so we emptied it and then went to move the rocking chair in Isabelle's room so to put the shelves behind it. Turns out that that was WAY TOO much for her. She went beyond the pouting, she went straight into crying and freaking out. Daddy put the rocking chair back and she was fine again, through many tears. That may have to wait till next weekend.
Because of that, there will be no pictures until her room gets more rearranged and uncluttered from all the piles I made. And we will take out the crib too... but for now, we are leaving it in there, just in case big bed has a bad night. (at least for a week).
I'll keep you posted on all the fun and possible turmoil... all the possibilities that can happen when there are no longer four rails to keep a kid in bed... hmmmmm.
Isabelle was ready for her nap too, she was so EXCITED to climb in and get on her pillow and under the pillows. So we said night night and night night she went! She slept for 3 hours and the best of all... NO BA!!! (AKA pacifier). We have been talking to her for a few weeks now that the 'ba' is going to go to the 'ba' fairy when the big bed got here. She didn't even ask for it. :)
Here's hoping that tonight will be just as successful.
The one thing that we learned in all this... Don't move / rearrange too much in one day. We wanted to move in a bookshelf that is currently in the guest room (soon to be another nursery), so we emptied it and then went to move the rocking chair in Isabelle's room so to put the shelves behind it. Turns out that that was WAY TOO much for her. She went beyond the pouting, she went straight into crying and freaking out. Daddy put the rocking chair back and she was fine again, through many tears. That may have to wait till next weekend.
Because of that, there will be no pictures until her room gets more rearranged and uncluttered from all the piles I made. And we will take out the crib too... but for now, we are leaving it in there, just in case big bed has a bad night. (at least for a week).
I'll keep you posted on all the fun and possible turmoil... all the possibilities that can happen when there are no longer four rails to keep a kid in bed... hmmmmm.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Breaking News
Well, not really breaking news... however there is news that many of you haven't heard. There is a new Morceau that will soon be brought into the world... or I should say a little Leprechaun. We have yet to find out what it will be, but we will soon. Isabelle is going to be a big sister!
Even more breaking news... we bought Isabelle a twin, big girl bed and it should be getting delivered on Saturday.
Pictures of all will come soon.
Even more breaking news... we bought Isabelle a twin, big girl bed and it should be getting delivered on Saturday.
Pictures of all will come soon.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Pirate Shoot
Pirate Booty
Where else should skulls go, but in a pink princess wheelbarrow!
Yes, we let Isablle chase Daddy with a sword for these shots. She loved it. And she eventually got him.
Trick or Truck
This year we decided that Isabelle would have a great time and actually enjoy and understand trick or treating... and sure enough... she DID!! This adorable little Pirate of ours had a blast.
We took her to the MV community center where, instead of house to house, we went truck to truck. There were all sorts of trrucks there, from fire and police trucks, to recycle trucks, to bulldozers and other cats, to dump trucks... you name it. Not only did the kids get candy from the drivers of the trucks, but many of the drives let the kids up in the trucks to 'drive' and move the gears. It was a fun time!
She was a bit/lot apprehensive with the dump truck! It took some guiding her to trick or treat with its driver, since his partner was raising and lowering the dumper part. (I don't remember the name of it).
Gears!!
Big-Rig
Arrrrrrrrrgh!!!!!
We took her to the MV community center where, instead of house to house, we went truck to truck. There were all sorts of trrucks there, from fire and police trucks, to recycle trucks, to bulldozers and other cats, to dump trucks... you name it. Not only did the kids get candy from the drivers of the trucks, but many of the drives let the kids up in the trucks to 'drive' and move the gears. It was a fun time!
She was a bit/lot apprehensive with the dump truck! It took some guiding her to trick or treat with its driver, since his partner was raising and lowering the dumper part. (I don't remember the name of it).
Gears!!
Big-Rig
Arrrrrrrrrgh!!!!!After Trick or Trucking, we were off to dinner and then to a near by neighborhood wehre we did some actual door to door trick or treating. She loved it too! She really got in to the hang of ringing the door bells and saying Happy Halloween when they opened the door and Trick or Treat when they gave her candy. Only one house scared / mezmerized her with a singing Franenstien head. Then she didn't want leave the house, she liked the song and started dancing with it. :) Another funny moment was as we were walking to the 'next' house, these plder girls were behind us and Isabelle grabbed my hand and said "Run Mommy, faster faster. Go first!" And she started running and pulling me toward the next house, to get there before the girls. It was so funny, Eric and I were cracking up... as we got to that house before those girls.
A great Evening!
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