M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!!!

About a week ago we decided to take Andrew down the street to look at Christmas lights. Well, we found Mickey Mouse. Now EVERY night after Andrew gets his jammies on, he asks to go outside to say nigh-night to Mickey. Luckily it's only 5 houses down. I'm sure the neighbors wonder what in the world we are doing. We don't usually get this close but I felt like this was blog and scrapbook worthy!

aunt rachel

Matt's sister came in this past week. It's always nice to have someone over to entertain Andrew. He was a definite attention hog..like always. Isn't Andrew great at posing for the camera? It's better to catch him while he's sleeping...

Aunt Rachel wore him out!!

And here's Andrew doing another great pose...

deep thoughts by blake...

Seriously...Mom, why am I UNDER the tree?

Here Mom...let me ham it up for you.

But, this is truly how I feel about taking pictures.

I'm sure you are wondering why I hardly post pictures of Andrew. And here is why...

the boy will NOT look at the camera!

and the WINNER is....

It's me!! It's me!! Yep, mine won. Not that any of you are surprised. Matt actually did ....the bell. I will admit that he kept his lines nice and neat...however.... MINE WON!! He did help decorate the tree and put his bell right smack in the middle so he could show it off. And, I will admit that the gingerbread girl was a little scary. Matt made me add the hair and I don't think that helped. Don't worry, she can barely be seen on the tree.

Anyway, here's my little cookie monster....

He definitely enjoyed the cookie and cried when it was gone.

The end product. This boy went straight to the tub.

cast your vote now!!

Today we made salt ornaments. I kept calling them ornaments but Andrew still tried to eat one. Even after he tasted the nasty salt he tried another bite...and then gave up! Andrew didn't enjoy it as much as I did!! Everyone except Blake got to paint one.

Me holding Andrew's ornaments since he wouldn't! He does NOT like having his picture taken these days and it drives me crazy! Trying to get a pic for our Christmas card was a nightmare!

Anyway....here are some of the good ornaments. Please settle an argument...leave a comment for which one you like the best. You may leave it anonymously. And no, you can't vote for Andrew's because his truly are the best and we already know that!

the b-i-b-l-e

Here's a little video of Andrew singing....

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books

eating my words...once again..

I said Andrew hadn't opened any presents yet, but this morning he made a liar out of me!! While I was drying my hair, he decided to open one. You see, last night I was trying to take a picture of the boys and I gave Andrew a present...thinking it would keep him occupied while I snapped some pics...instead... he ripped the gift. I guess he figured today he would just finish the job.

santa

Today we took the boys to go see Santa...

Yep, Andrew wouldn't sit so we just took one with Blake.

He would give Santa five!

We went with our friends Kate and Mary. Kate was not a happy camper either.

Afterwards, we tried to take a picture for our Christmas cards (yep, I might actually get some out this year) and I thought this pictures was too sweet!

Oh and thanks to everyone for the ideas on the gingerbread houses. I think I'm good to go on the icing so I'll post as soon as we do them.

miss patty cake and other happenings

Yesterday Andrew, Blake, Jennifer Massey and I went to see Miss Patty Cake at my church. I'm sure that's exactly how Jennifer loves spending her Saturdays. She didn't quite know what she was getting into when we made plans but I'm sure she enjoyed it...maybe not as much as Andrew did though!

I wasn't close enough to get a good picture. I was afraid I might need to sneak out if Blake got rowdy...but he was awesome!

Andrew wasn't too sure what to think at first but I think he enjoyed it.

In other news....

Blake is getting big and is SUCH a joy to be around. I seriously thought Andrew was a happy easy baby but Blake is SO much happier than Andrew was. He's always is smiling! He LOVES his big brother and just shrieks when Andrew comes up to him. It's so sweet and I know it won't be long and they'll be fighting like true brothers do. I take Blake for his 6 month check up tomorrow at the crack of dawn! He'll be almost 7 months but they couldn't get us in last month for a well visit. I know Blake has put on the weight but I'll be curious to see how long he is.

Andrew has been going on the potty!! :) He's actually been doing it for about two weeks now. He's done really well. I totally didn't push him this time. It's been all him and has been SO much easier. I just can't get him to go #2 on there so we've been using pull-ups instead of underwear. Once we get that down then we are done...hopefully that will be sooner than later. Pull-ups are expensive!

I'm so excited about Christmas this year!! Andrew is going to LOVE it. He's already enjoying seeing the lights and Christmas tree. I worried he would want to open the presents under the tree but he hasn't bothered them yet...well, they aren't under the tree as we don't have our tree up but they are sitting where the tree goes and he hasn't touched them.

I've started training for my job. I'm really excited about it. I was thinking I would be working about 20 hours a month but I don't think it will even be that much. We'll see. I'm wondering if I'll even start working before Christmas.

We'll my shows are on so I better end this long somewhat boring post.