Our Christmas!

This is how our FUN Christmas went. Simon got jealous and stole "baby Jesus" from "Mary" and swung him around his head. "Joseph" aka Oliver seems amused by this.


The "Wise man" and "Shepherd" used their used their staffs as guns and guitars. Then "Superman" showed up disguised as a wise man/shepherd (far right). This doesn't seem to amuse "Joseph" at all though.


We frosted cookies for Santa..........


.....and then went and saw him just so the kids could tell him one more time how good they really were all year. Liars!

Then Oliver and Simon got to open their Christmas Eve PJ's that Gramma Platt make them every year.


Oliver left his cookies and a note for Santa by the fireplace so he would see them. I had to promise Oliver that I wouldn't make a fire before he would go to bed. He didn't want Santa to get burned. Then I made some "Go to bed Bread" and went to bed myself so Santa could come.


He came, but so did the "Bread Monster."


And since this guy is .."kind of a big deal" he got some nose and ear trimmers. (Not that he'd use them.)


Jarred would have got some PJ's too had they made 'em in his size.


As always Hendrix is left wondering what all the fuss was about.
The End.

Does Peter Pan work for Santa?

My wonderful friend Amanda suggested I check out "Peter Pan Man." So here he is in all his glory. His real name is Randy Constan and I'm not sure if he's serious or not. Can you believe he likes girls too. He claims to be engaged to one. I know, I was shocked too. You've got to check this guy out! Oh My Gosh! Merry Christmas!

http://pixyland.org/peterpan/petersFashionPage.html

You're not the only one!

So we did something really stupid last week and went to Disney Land again. I know I said I wouldn't do it again until the kids were much older, but I just couldn't resist all the Christmas magic that would be there so we went. But guess who we ran into on our second day there?

I just wanted to tell my friend Amy that we're cool enough to run into famous people too. She always sees the celebrities at Disney Land. So I'm going to give you all the secret to seeing famous people at DL. Keep and eye out for the Disney workers in plaid, they'll be carrying a candle or a whip or something. They do the guided celebrity tours. Well actually anyone can pay extra to have one of these tours, but it's usually the Celebs. So now ya know the secret.

Things I learned Yesterday.

Here's some things I learned Yesterday:
A. My friend Lorena is much smarter than me.
B. Boogers are water proof.
C. I need more than two diapers in the diaper bag.
D. If given the chance, my friends will try to and succeed at creeping me out on my blog.
(ie; "I miss the way you smell" come on, that's creepy. Who left that present?)

Pretend it's my Birthday still.

So the girls took me out for my birthday tonight and boy did we have fun! We went to "Macayo's Depot Cantina" in Tempe, my favorite place to eat. Not because the food is fantastic, I just love the atmosphere. Everything is all old and broken looking and the train goes right by it. Well it was just like any other night out with the girls, food, laughing, and dirty jokes when it happened. Andrea PASSED OUT! Of course being the girls that we are and because she is pregnant we freaked out and had the manager of the restaurant call the paramedics.


This is Andrea saying she's "fine!" It happened last time she was pregnant too. She's a little mad and embarrassed. But common girl, YOU PASSED OUT! We only did it because we care.

Of course none of us could pass up the opportunity to take pictures so we could blog it as our "eventful night out."

So the fire truck got there and checked her out. Took her blood pressure and everything. It turned out she was fine thank goodness. I guess Andrea was right after all, but better safe than sorry, right?

Bravest Little Man!

Yesterday Oliver had his little friend Isabel come over and play after school. They played so well and had so much fun, but right be fore Margo came to pick up Isabel disaster struck. Oliver was running along our neighbors railroad ties that separate our yards and totally biffed it. I ran over to survey the damage and discovered he had the worst cut I've ever seen! Normally I would have freaked out and made things worse, but I actually held it together and took him inside to fix things up. Little Isabel was fantastic at comforting poor Oliver and helping me doctor his wound. Upon cleaning it though, I discovered just how bad it was and decided to take him to Urgent Care as soon as Simon woke up from his nap. If he didn't bleed to death first.


The doctor looked at it as said he would need some stitches. Oliver discovered that holding his breath made him not feel any pain. Although it might have had more to do with the numbing cream they put on the cut rather than him actually holding his breath.

I couldn't believe how brave he was. He didn't even cry! My Oliver, the "King of Tears" did not shed even one tear during this whole ordeal at the "Urgent Care." What a brave little Man!

And here's the finished product. Five stitches. Of course he had to show everyone. He's real excited for his "Big Boy" scar. Daddy and his friend Cory made him feel real good about finally getting it.
Today things are back to normal for Oliver. You wouldn't even know that he had such and ordeal yesterday. I just hope he doesn't accidentally tear the stitches and re-open the wound.

That's the bathroom....

Today, Oliver's friend named Danny came over to play. Well I guess Danny needed to go to the bathroom so he came up to me and asked,"Hey do you have any bathrooms?" I said yes and told Oliver to hurry and show Danny the bathroom because he needed to go. Well Oliver, being the ever so obedient child that he is, quickly said, "OK, come here and look. This is the bathroom and see that, that is the toilet. It has water in it and that's where you put your pee. Then you flush it. This is the whole bathroom." I was laughing hysterically! Thanks Oliver, I can always count on you!