Princess Bug

Bug got a TRUNK FULL of dress up clothes for Christmas. Here she is as Cinderella.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

This is a very happy little boy with a gingerbread house he made during his last week of school. We finished eating it yesterday. I have to say that the frosting was pretty good even after being dried out.

Christmas with a 2 and a 4 year old is wonderful. Everything is exciting. Favorite gifts? Elliot got a Nerf dart gun from Elsie. Today it topped the charts. Right up until Michael nailed me in the face as I came in from feeding Stripes. Tomorrow we're going to return a gift and get more guns. It's ON.

Video

Click here to watch Elliot, Elsie and grandma feed the seagulls.

Feeding the birds

So we thought it would be the opposite. We thought Elliot would freak out from the closeness of the birds. But it was Elsie that cowered near me. Elliot loved it.

We just returned from a few days with grandma and grandpa on the beach in St. Pete. I have to say it was lovely. Grandparents are a wonderful thing. And we got two good sets.

Poor Stripes

You may not be able to see her in the first picture, but there is actually a cat under the pink Barbie blanket. Stripes endures all kinds of torture from our children. This is why she is only inside about 20 minutes per day. The kids love her. Whenever she scoots inside they both yell, 'Stripes is in the HOUSE!'

Emily

This is Emily Polgardi, Elliot's favorite student. I'm not sure how she became the favorite, other than the fact that she shares a name with one of Elliot's favorite trains. She brings him little train presents and he returns the love with lots of hugs.

Too fast for mama

So we've started a couple of traditions for when the students are here. One is that on Wednesdays we meet papa for pizza at a greasy pizza place to have dinner. He goes back to working on his sermon for large group that night and we go to the park. Elliot rides his bike around the perimeter of the park while I push Elsie in the stroller.

The first time we did this Elsie was out of town. I had to help Elliot get started several times, and he almost didn't make it around the whole park (About 1 mile total). Well, he's improved. Tonight, (after a soda and two pieces of extremely greasy pepperoni pizza) we again went to the park. The kid is a rocket. His tires MIGHT be 10 inches in diameter. But by the 3/4 mile mark, I was yelling, about 20 yards behind him, as I ran as FAST as I could while pushing Elsie, STOP! STOP!

He was in no danger of getting hit or lost. I just seriously could not keep up with him. I was feeling pain and an inability to BREATHE. Thankfully, I bought a bike today. And we bought a bike trailer last weekend. Gotta love Craigslist. I need the bike to keep up with Elliot.