The Naughty List

Presents were opened and there was some excitement in the air.  We thought we nailed it (sort of).  Well, after presents are opened Logan says, "I thought I was on the nice list."  Bah, child!  He GOT presents.  Did he have a tall order to fill?...YES!  He wanted a "robot dragon" and this is not just any robot dragon (which is hard to know what that would be anyways) he wanted a life size one and probably wanted it to fly too.  I guess if it could do all that, I'd want one too.  DOESN'T EXIST.  Oh, and then he wanted a "Golden Hatchimal".  Yup, DOESN'T EXIST... 

He did get what he calls an "Indominus Rex" you can see in the photo that is remote controlled.  He got a stocking stuffer baby hatchimal.  We go outside with the neighborhood kids to share in the excitement, he states, "I was on the naughty list!"  Another girl says that too and then shares, "but I got nothing, except this hat that says "bah humbug!""

To close out this post on my spoiled child whose dreams are too far reaching...I'm thinking coal next year.  Need to set this kid straight on what the "naughty list" is.  

Merry Christmas!!

Tis the Season

Arizona DOES get cold.  This is our usual scene in the mornings trekking it to drop Logan off at school.  The afternoon however is perfect 70's.  Love this time of year for multiple reasons!

Mmmm...cookies!  

I've been really on this cookie kick trying 1-2 new recipes a week.  We've really hit it off with a handful of "keeper" recipes.  This is a S'mores Blossom Cookie by Test Kitchen.  So good!

Kicking it at the park

Trialing our Christmas PJ's compliments of my mom.  The kids seemed to love matching the parents.  Now they have to save them for Christmas morning.  Which speaking of Christmas Logan informed me this wad of coins in what looked like trash is for Santa to help get Logan a Golden Hatchimal.  Ugh!  He's been telling his friends about this plan.  Pretty sure Santa is not on board with it though.

Fo-hawk!

F-baby is right...representing Facebook (hey Annabelle!).  On the other hand, she has been a terrible handful lately.  She is the most dramatic with shots...like crying uncontrollably long after the fact, not sleeping.  Seems she was possessed 24 hours after.  Then we saw the eye of the storm...it was great.  Then the very following day launched into a cough and cold compliments of Logan.  As for Logan, well his sickness led to an ear infection which NO symptoms showed up for this infection until 5pm Friday night...seriously.  Then it was quite the show of dramatics.  Tylenol did NOTHING!  Ultimately led to an urgent care visit, which meant we weren't home until 12:30am...Jimmy had work the next day getting up at 4:30 am.  This was just icing on the cake as we had done the Friday night urgent care with me a few weeks prior with strep throat.  Tis the season!  Just hope we're hitting the end of it!!

6 Months Old

This pumpkin head is 6 months old.  It is as everyone says crazy how fast that time goes.  I love her.  She is a big girl and pretty stinking proud of it sitting on her own.  She got her 1st tooth all within 1 week of each other.  She is a chunk...I mean, look at her, she's taking up a ton of the crib now.  She adores her brother, like crazy excited squeals when he just looks at her.  It works rather well for me prepping for dinner.  She is discovering that it's time to grab things and taste them.  Showering has gotten challenging as she can get anywhere rolling and gets upset getting stuck in a doorway.

I just love how she sleeps when I don't swaddle her...she gets swaddled most times, otherwise when she awakens it takes over an hour to get back asleep.  Swaddled it's almost immediately after she eats.

Logan got his homework done the first time being asked without complaint.  So, it earned a reward...we made a fort that took up the entire front of our apartment, hah!  He is such a giving little man.  Logan was so excited to share this fort with Everly.  In fact, if Logan gets anything like a rewarded pencil, vegetables on his recent field trip (like he was excited about them himself).  He'll say, "I got this one because it's your favorite color, do you want it?  You can have it."  With the vegetables he turned to his friend and said, "you can have my biggest one."  Let's return to these years when we hit teenage time! 

Granted, I say that and the other day we were walking home from school and Logan was saying, "can I have some chapstick to pretect my lips."  I said, "you mean to prOtect your lips."  Logan, "no mom it is prEtect."  Me, "no, it's protect."  Logan continues arguing.  Me, "fine, let's talk to the crossing guard."  Bottom line, he believes it now because the crossing guard said it is "protect."  I learned a new term recently as part of my education in my new job this stage is called the "ferocious fives."  I couldn't argue with that title, hah!

CSA

Well, I watched some crazy documentaries..."What the Health" and "Food, Inc".  It made me initially feel like...now what can I eat?  Where can I even buy food?  What now?

2 weeks later and I'm not making any drastic changes, but we are doing a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and trying new vegetables we wouldn't otherwise.  This is very similar to Bountiful Baskets (for those who have heard of that).  In turn, we're eating more veggies in our diet, which I didn't need any documentary to tell me that was a change that needed to happen.  This one delivers to the door, extra bonus!

Can you believe this was a half share?  Yum... It came with a recipe all I needed was some olive oil and noodles.  Dinner set for us and quick in one night.  Loving it.  Also, their green onions are insanely huge!