So Excited!

I am so looking forward to Christmas. I can't wait for Ian's first Christmas. Just to let everybody know, I will be broadcasting live Ian on MSN on Christmas Morning. So if you have MSN messenger set up you can watch. Of course, it will be pretty early here, but oh well. You all have the opportunity.

I picked up my purse today. Everything still there. Whew! Then I made my perogy dough and the scalloped potatoes. I just need to make the dough into perogies. Lousy job. I might have to do that tomorrow. We'll see.

I am very busy tomorrow, so probably no post. I will be sure to get one in on Christmas evening or Boxing Day morning with a ton of Ian Pictures. Until then, here is one to tide you over! It is a picture of why diaper changing is sometimes more trouble than it's worth!

RISK!

Travis will be murdered in his sleep sometime in the near future. He deserves it for what he did to me last night. We decided to play Risk. BIG mistake. I don't know why I always do that to myself. I actually thought I was doing pretty well for myself until all at once he gets like 30 guys on one turn and takes over the whole world. I was nice. I said Good Game and Well Done, but really I wanted to throw the board in his face. And make him pick up all the tiny little people off the floor. But I didn't. Because I am the master of self control, hahahaha.

I dozed off this morning. Another big mistake. Ian was playing with his toys and I just fell asleep. I woke up to a huge crash. I have a lamp that has plants on it on these little shelves. He pulled the whole thing over. I lost so much potting soil into the carpet I actually had to get more dirt today. So he's sitting there crying with dirt all over (I had no sympathy) and so I dust him off and put him by his toys again. I blocked him in with a chair so he wouldn't get in the dirt. Then I start fixing the plants. Somehow he got around the chair and behind my back without me even seeing and pulled the lamp over AGAIN!!! Luckily no plants on it yet. He wasn't hurt but my oh my was mama mad. Oooh. So mad. I did eventually get it cleaned up and gave him a hug. He felt better. I felt better. Then we had breakfast. Hopefully he learned a little today.

I have really awesome news today. I lost my purse. Almost a month ago. I looked every where for it. I was just going to start replacing all my id. Luckily my cards and money weren't in it but all my ID was. I was in denial for a long time but finally gave in yesterday and accepted that it was lost after looking in the car and the coat closet about a million times. I couldn't even remember when I had it last either. But suddenly today it dawned on me that I had it when I went to the movies with Travis for our anniversary. So I called the theatre. And they had it!!! Yay!!! I have awesome luck!!! Anyway, I have been hearing from Travis for weeks about how dumb I am and how I always lose everything so I don't need to hear it from anyone else. So there. But you can all be silently happy (or relieved) on my behalf.

Ian had his doctor appointment today. He was really good. Didn't even cry for his flu shot, just a little squeek. My little man. And he was good while we braved the crowds to go buy dirt too. So all is forgiven here. I even let him watch BoohBah today, his very favorite show. Here is a picture of Ian watching BoohBah. I don't usually let him stand like that at the TV but I let him just long enough for the photo op.

I'm Baked

I was so exhausted yesterday I couldn't post. I finished all my baking yesterday. It was fun but hard work. We got some really nice tins and bundled everything up for people coming for dinner. Tied with big bows. Lovely. Ian was pretty good yesterday. He had some long naps and we took him to the park. I forgot the camera again. He looked so cute swinging in the swing in his little snow suit with his cheeks all rosy from the cold. I will remember to bring the camera next time.

Today I have to make perogies. Then I guess I am done and can finally relax. Which is good because I am pretty tired. We rented 4 Brothers last night. I sorta dozed off half way through but when I went to bed I couldn't sleep. But I will be sure to go to bed early tonight.

Ian has a doctor appointment tomorrow. He is getting a flu shot. That should go over well. I'll let everybody know how it goes. Hope everybody is having a good holiday so far. I will put some pictures tomorrow. Until then, drive safe!

(editor's note: I really like the posts with no pictures, lol)

Taters. I am obsessed with the taters.

Ok, I changed my tunes. I hope you all like it. I wanted to put Grandma got Run Over by a Reindeer but I couldn't find the version I wanted small enough to put on here. So I went with this.

In other news, we picked up our xmas ham today. Big sucker too. And some good lookin potatoes. I love potatoes. I am going to make perogies and mash potatoes. I love Christmas dinner. I am so excited. I know I keep mentioning it but I can't help it I really do love Christmas dinner. I can't wait!

I have to do some wrapping and I STILL have a bunch of cards to send. So folks, if you haven't got one from me yet, just hold tight. Maybe for new year's. Ha ha ha.

Well Degrassi tonight. So I must run. You all have fun. Sorry no pic today!

Holy Evil Baby, Batman

Oh. My. God! Don't even get me started on this child today. I think he decided to whine at about 10am this morning and hardly let up throughout the day. Travis tried to keep him for me so I could do my baking but Ian was whining so much he lost his patience and put him down, so he kept crawling in and clinging to my legs whining. I gave him a cookie and that helped for a bit but then he went straight back to whining. I don't know how I made it through the day but let me tell you 7pm could not come fast enough.

He has developed a really cute habit. If you shake your head at him, he shakes his back, it is really cute. Except when you are feeding him, I guess.

Well, I am sure you are all wondering, Travis and I had a really nice time at the ship dinner and dance. We got all dressed up and we looked pretty spiffy if I do say so myself. I had a few drinks . Just enough I think. I didn't feel too bad yesterday. Travis let me sleep in. That was nice of him. We relaxed with movies all day on the couch. It was nice. Today I did manage to get a start on my baking. I made popcorn toffee balls and shortbread. I bought these cookie presses at a yard sale in the summer. They are these little plastic discs and you take the shortbread and roll it into a ball then press it with the presses and it prints a holiday picture on the cookie. So I have really pretty cookies. I decorated them with green and red cherries and silver and gold dragees. They look really nice. I still have a lot to do, I want to make gingersnaps and butter tarts and peanut butter nanaimo bars and maybe some oatmeal raisin cookies too. Hopefully I can get that done tomorrow. Hopefully Ian is more laid back tomorrow and I can actually get something done.

So my photos today are Trav and I dressed up for the party on Friday and Ian "helping" with the dishes in one of his rare good moods.

(editor's note, old blog let me turn the pictures. I can't figure it out on this blog.)

Snow My @$$

Wow, this sucks. I hate snow. The snow is about a foot deep this morning and the wind has blasted it into glacier-like consistency. I tried shoveling but to no avail. I barely got the top of the steps cleared. Ian HATES it out there so I had to come back in. I take back everything nice I ever said about snow, and I am now planning a move back into an apartment. Ok, not the last thing. Have a look at my deck this morning: I'ts making me edit this because of LANGUAGE

Tons of Pictures

I couldn't find the phone today. I pushed the button on the base and then walked around the living room in circles looking for it. I checked the couch cushions, behind the tree, behind the tv, in the love seat. Round and round I went. It sounded like it was behind me. No matter where I was, it was behind me. Because it was under the coffee table. I'm such a tool.

I gave Ian sweet potatoes yesterday. He didn't like it much. He didn't hate it as much as carrots though either. Just a dirty look. He has this tree house toy. It is his favorite toy. It has these balls that you drop in the top and it rolls down and spins on these discs for a few seconds while really annoying music plays. Only in the last few days the music has begun to sound belaboured. I guess it is time to change the batteries.

We have a busy weekend ahead of us. Ship Christmas party tomorrow where we need to find something to wear. Ack! And then I guess I will get my baking started on Sunday. I might be able to make it wait till later in the week though, since Travis will be home and I can do it during the day without distractions.

We got most of the Christmas cards out today. Finally. I bought them in November thinking I was getting ahead of things, and did half of them in one night, then got so burned out that I didn't touch them again until today when it was the last minute. I just kept moving the pile to different locations in the house. I am such a dweeb. I have to be more careful with that now, however, because Ian is always into stuff and the places I can put things is swiftly dwindling. Today I caught him sucking on a butt cloth. It was in the dirty laundry and I had turned my back for a second and there he was sucking away. Luckily it was a pee butt cloth and not a poo butt cloth.

Well that's the news for today. I have watched a few movies lately which I will mention in the next day or 2. Until then, here are some pics today. I have Ian toddling around the coffee table and some of him trying to destroy his room. Then one of him being a sucky baby. And one of him looking up to his dad (preceded by a yoga position.