4th Day of Christmas

Alex had school today so Rhoslyn and I did some Christmas shopping at Target.

We can't say what we bought. =)

After dinner we did a snowman activity.  It was a last minute idea so it was probably a bit boring.  Just some coloring, cutting, and gluing.

Rhoslyn through a fit when it was time for her to be done gluing.  When Alex was finished I told him to right his name on his artwork.  Rhoslyn was next to him screaming and crying.  He wrote his name and said, "I have had enough of this" and walked away.  Happy Holidays?

We proceeded to follow dad into the bedroom where he was folding a mound of laundry.  The kids decided to climb and jump all over me.  It was fun...

3rd Day of Christmas

On the third day of Christmas...

We watched Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer!

Every time I watch that move it makes me think of watching it with my mom on TV when they only played it once during the Christmas season.

It's cute, because Rhoslyn gets into movies now and she enjoyed watching it.  Alex asks more questions now, such as why the snow monster was so angry at the beginning of the movie.  I love watching Christmas movies!

We also jammed out to our Phineas and Ferb Christmas CD!  

On a side note:  Our home is feeling more like home.  I finally got a few things hung up on the walls today!  We are also in LOVE with our new carpet!  This Christmas is definitely sentimental with us being in our first home.  We are loving every minute of it.

2nd Day of Christmas

On the 2nd day of Christmas...

We put lights up outside.  Still need to finish after we purchase some clips for the gutters!

I put up my Christmas Villages downstairs and blew the fuse for the strand of lights.

The Elf did NOT make his second appearance.  

We ended our day watching How to Train your Dragon... ok not very Christmas related. =)

1st Day of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas a little Elf showed up on our kitchen table.

I was super excited about Elfie the elf keeping an eye on the kids.

Alex was not.

He was scared and unsure of the elf.  He takes things very literally with his ASD.  We thought he would either enjoy it, or be terrified.  I guess that was a risk we had to take....Daddy and Alex went and dumped our old carpet at the landfill and I told Elfie he needed to go back to the North Pole.

He will not be coming back. (Alex even came out of his room tonight crying because he was scared of the Elf coming back.  Billy told him we would make sure we called Santa and tell him that we do not want him to come and check on the kids.)

On a bright note, we went to Toys R Us which was a total zoo.  The kids each picked out a game that we are donating to Toys for Tots at Alex's school.

We also finally put the star on top of our Christmas tree!

Photos will be posted later.  (I have been informed that I have used all of my photo space)

25 days of Christmas

Get ready!

We are doing 25 days of Christmas and that means I will be writing a blog each day about something we did Christmas related!

Tomorrow is going to be great!  Stay tuned!

Shopping Disaster

OK, so it really wasn't a disaster..

I should have known not to take Rhoslyn out shopping today when she woke up and was being sassy after breakfast.  But no... I took the kids anyways!  I guess you could say I like a challenge.

First store was Target.  She did alright in there, except not listening when I told her we needed to keep moving on and looking at other things.  She likes to take her time looking at one thing.  (I don't know where she gets that from)

She also pretty much refuses to sit in a cart, and if you make her... get ready for an all out scream fest!  So when we go shopping we go at Rhoslyn's pace.  It's not uncommon to hear me threatening her with, "Rhoslyn, if you don't want to sit in the cart you better come on!"

After our trip to Target we headed over to Big Lots in hopes of finding a fairly cheap Christmas Tree and a new curtain rod.  Curtain Rod... check.  Tree...not checked.

Let's just say she was pretty much terrible in Big Lots.  She took her jacket off even though I told her to leave it on.  Every time I told her to keep up she screamed, "NO!" at me.  We are getting ready to check out and she is screaming because she doesn't want to get her jacket on.  She also didn't want to stay by me.  I had 10 pairs of eyes all on me and my sassy daughter.  

Then.... we are getting ready to go and I told her she HAD to get her jacket on.  She proceeded to fall on the floor and throw a fit.  I pulled her up, put her jacket on (didn't zip it, which then made her even more mad at me), picked up her and literally carried her out in a football hold.  Why do people have to sit and stare at you when your kids are misbehaving?  I mean come on, every child does it at least once in their life time.  

She continues to scream and cry while I get her in the car and this little old lady is walking by just STARING at me.  I was about ready to yell over at her and see if she would like to handle the situation, but I decided that probably wasn't the best idea.

So anyways... I think Rhoslyn is banned to go shopping for a little while.  She has officially hit the terrible twos!  It's been fun....

Going to work

Rhoslyn loves shoes!  She loves anyone shoes.

Here she is pretending to be daddy...