Just another Sunday

This morning I was so not in the mood to go to church...it was pouring down rain, super windy and I was so tired! Dan was not feeling well and so I was up with Isabella alone last night and she chose to wake up every hour. Yes, EVERY hour. So I left her home along with Madison to help Dan since he still wasn't feeling very well and Hannah said she was sick...but I'm thinking she wasn't....sneaky sneaky.

So I took off since I had sharing time and it was so weird not having to collect them after it was all done.

So I came home to a nice sunny day and chose to spend my time cleaning and finish up the decorating. I am pleased. My house looks cute...not too overboard with the decorations...I think just enough.

So then I took some pictures.

This little girl melts my heart....the more she's with us...the more I know she so was suppose to be a part of our little family. She just fits right in....she makes our home complete.

My little model....she was so proud she was so coordinated...she makes me laugh with our little photo shoots.

Oh my Madison....she's a little bit of Dan and me both....and she so has our photo taking capabilities....

My love

Then we had one of Dan's friends stop by and fed him and chatted. It's always nice having him over....we always get on such random topics and some good laughs.

He left and Dan and I made up Santa videos for some family members....and then we made up some more JibJabs....and we some more good laughs.

And now Dan is upstairs playing his game....I don't know how he stays awake playing it, and I'm going to attempt to watch Four Christmas' since it's long over due. It's hard to...I love sitting and reading in my lounge...the fireplace is going, the tree is lit and the smell of cinnamon fills the room. It's so cozy in my over sized chair. I debate getting a TV for that room but I think that's why I like it so much in there....there isn't a TV and even though we aren't a TV watching family....I think it would be distracting.

Oh...and we watched Charlie Brown's Christmas this evening...I love how my kids LOVED it. They would have sat there all night replaying it. And then I got super excited while I was shopping online since it's GAP's last day for 25% off and I HAD to buy a few more things...I checked out Old Navy just to see and they had Charlie Brown shirts for the girls....so I HAD to get them. As well as this Tweety Bird shirt for Hannah that so fits her personality. My promise not to spend too much on the girls....it's so hard to keep.

It stinks...and the school fair

making a car payment and paying for car insurance for a car you do not have. *sigh*

Perhaps some day soon I will have my new car....

Do you know what also stinks....

Isabella's diaper champ when you lift it open to change the bag out. I don't change it as often as I should since it doesn't get full very quickly...her diapers are still so small. But holy moly cow...when you lift it out...it's pretty rancid. I need to work on that.

Totally random...I will never understand how people will have the tops down in their convertibles when it's 5 degrees celsius outside. Just because it's sunny doesn't mean it's top down weather.

Now on to the school fair....

I am now a broke woman since spending 2 hours at a school fair. My kids and their spending...seriously where do they get that?

They had a blast...I was a little tired but it was fun to see them have fun minus the constant whining from Hannah. She's really got to stop that or she's off on a plane to see Grandma Nancy. (Just kidding! I would never send my kids on a plane alone...I'm way too paranoid.) Anyway...so they went into Santa's Grotto and here's the picture we got:
Then they decorated cookies...and then right after they ate them. I think we need to be off sugar for the next week with all the sweeties and cookies and cakes they ate.
(I know Hannah is looking all sweet and innocent in this picture but she seriously was a booger!)

We came home, ate the roast I had in the crock pot (I was so thinking ahead I amaze myself sometimes) and then my husband gave me the bestest of the best back rubs. And then what does he do to totally ruin my moment of relaxation...stick his hands in my arm pits so I go crazy insane since I'm so ticklish and the worst part...he was sitting on me so all I could do was squirm and kick the marble on the fireplace. Oh how I hate to be tickled! Madison and Hannah come in the lounge and what do they do....encourage Dan to keep tickling me since they all think my laugh is oh so funny and that it's funny to see me squirm. Not so funny to me!

We are pretty sure Isabella has inherited my ticklish all over gene...that's 3 for 3 then.

And sometimes my husband is so clever....he came up with a funny. I was reading the paper and it was talking about Tiger Woods. Dan said he wanted a shirt that said, "Tiger woods really isn't a tiger...he's a cheetah..."

HAHAHA! It made me laugh.

Craziness in the Brown house

Today there were many "moments" in the brown house....here are a few

*Madison was going crazy since Hannah wore pants to school today. Who knew that Hannah wearing pants would get Madison so wound up. Perhaps since she thought she was wearing hers...


*I had a moment of panic...Aunt Flow is a little late coming and I had a crazy dream last night. This had me running (actually driving) to the store to buy a pregnancy test. The whole way home I was freaking out my kids would be 11 months apart....the test was negative. God does love me and knows I will seriously go CA-RAY-ZY if I have another baby. I have been faithful to the pill....but we all know how well that works for me, exhibit A - Hannah.


*I told Dan during dinner, a friend told me she saw Madison holding hands with a boy at school. He shook his head and said loudly (not meanly) "WHAT! You don't need to be holding hands with boys! You're too young!" We will see....Madison whispered to me she liked this boy as well as this other boy likes her too. Dan needs to chill a little bit...he has 3 girls...and they are pretty cute....boys are going to be an on going issue in our house.


*Isabella loves her Nemo....I picked her up and Nemo fell....she cried as if somebody had hurt her. I layed her back down with Nemo, life was good again.

*Hannah is tired...it's the end of the week, so there are tears over everything. My super sensitive Hannah....


*I started the stockings I'm making...I so screwed up and got mad. So I stopped....who knows if I will get them done. I'm so over them now.


*I made fudge, I had to throw it away...I was eating it and making myself sick...it was tasty but I just didn't have any self control. I think it was the nostalgic part of my dad making it every Christmas season why I kept eating it....so my family didn't get to eat any since I made it during the time they were at school or sleeping. Isabella had a taste...she liked it but really....she's Dan Brown's kid....she obviously is going to have a sweet tooth.


*But I cleaned my house for my cleaners today and then they cleaned so I have a super clean house! And my house smells like cinnamon...how I love my Yankee candle.


*No pregnancy, kids sleeping, clean house, Dan's last night of work (on his 4 days string at least)...life is good.

What kind of mom do you think I am?

This morning I had Isabella on the couch ready to change her diaper and Hannah came down with a bunch of clean diapers. I had a wipe ready in my hand and as soon as Hannah came over I noticed she had a milk mustache so I wiped it with the wipe in my hand. Hannah gives me this disgusted face and says, "Mum, did you just use that Isabella wipe?" I didn't quite understand what she was asking....then I understood. My daughter thought I used it to wipe Isabella's bottom and then I used it on her face. I laughed and told her yes just to get more of a rise out of her and in between her extreme disgust I told her it really was a clean wipe.

Here's Madison doing what she does.

Decorating for Christmas

It was time to go into the garage and find all the Christmas stuff on Saturday. I bought a fake tree...I know...I said I was NEVER going to have one but I just couldn't bring myself to spending over $100 on a real tree....and it started from there....the whole decorating for Christmas thing. I got the tree up...man...they make them so easy to put together now. So after my like hour of rearranging my lounge...I was finally pleased with the arrangement of furniture. The girls and Dan decorated the tree while I took pictures and unwrapped all the tissue paper from all the decorations. We opted not to use the glass bulbs and just go with the ones my mom and I made and burned our fingers many times a few years ago. We saw these bulbs at this cute Christmas store and thought...hey we can make those! And so we did...but I have to admit...I got tired of hot glue burning my fingers so my mom did most of them.

I just love them.

Anyway...so we got the tree decorated. I then finished up the lounge with some decorations. I still need to make snow flakes with the girls and make something to dangle from the lights. Something sparkly I'm sure....and garland is all around the doorways. Dan came down and was like, whoa...it's like we live in a forest. I was also super excited finding all the gift boxes I forgot I brought back from the states to wrap clothes in since last year I couldn't find any in this country...or if I did it was so insanely overpriced I couldn't let myself spend that much on a box. So this year, our presents will be neatly wrapped in boxes which I'm soooo excited about. My life must truly be boring if I'm getting excited about boxes....seriously!

And we know where my girls get their cheesey smiles....

I love how my sister, Christina, described this picture....Madison is happy, Hannah is like I don't care, Isabella is asleep and I'm just a little too excited about the tree.

And now Madison looks like the goof....there always has to be one of us.

I also saw New Moon this weekend, finally, with a friend. I think the best part was when my friend leaned over to me after Jacob took off his shirt the first time and said, "My £8 was just well spent." Oh how that made me laugh.

Breakfast

I had run on base to go hit the sale on DVDs but failed to notice that the BX doesn't open until 10 am not 8 am....so I went into the coffee shop to get Dan his latte as well as my kids a donut. I came home to Dan sleeping on the couch and Madison and Hannah taking care of Isabella upstairs (just how I had left it). She is so happy when her sisters play with her. She just lays there and smiles kicking her legs and flapping her arms....the cutest thing! Anyway...so we're sitting down at the table enjoying our snacks when somehow Hannah starts talking about how daddy is not a girl. I made the comment that was a good thing or that would be weird and sick. Hannah then says, "But if he had long hair he would be a girl."

"And had a penis." (Madison)

"It's called a willy." (Hannah)

"What happened to calling it a hose?" (me)

"So it's a Little willy hose." (Hannah)

Dan just loves our open conversations on body parts.....especially ones pertaining to him.

Taking time

This morning after Hannah came in to say good morning to me, I asked her if she wanted to come into bed and cuddle. She hopped right in. We use to cuddle all the time but since I was about 8 months pregnant and then after the baby was born we haven't. It was so nice to just take time to do that. I find I get so busy in life and I forget the little things that my girls like. To me they seem so much older than what they are and when I was cuddling with Hannah, I remember she was my little 4 year old.

Then later on I cuddled and fell asleep with Isabella. She loves cuddling just almost as much I do with my girls.

Madison received an award at school today....a Leading Learner award for always trying her best and doing an outstanding job on her presentation. Seriously....they do presentations in her year....I had no idea!