ice cream truck

hear the music? isn't it just as exciting as you remember it?

she says...

"mom, look! he has a blowy thing!"
pointing to the man in the car next to us...
hand hanging out the window holding a cigarette.
fabulous! cause "blowy thing" sounds too fun, must come up with a word that doesn't sound so fun!
fire stick. smoke stack. i've got nothing right now.

another tooth down

earlier in the night (new year's eve) x was showing off how loose his tooth was...
shortly after midnight (since he was still awake!) "MOM! I JUST TOOK OUT MY TOOTH!"
happy new year, my baby is growing up

ringing in 2010

we hung out at home, ate snacks, made some silly hats with styrofoam bowls, sequins and tombow glue, and counted down to the end of 2009...

december daily 7

made up christmas lists tonight for fhe....

here is a copy of it, for posterity...will be funny to read over a few years down the road
Xander

"UP"- dvd widescreen
"Wall E" - dvd widescreen
Wii
Wii games
rocket legos (legos that make rockets)
Star Wars Gun
a new game for my LMax
a new video game for Nintendo 64
books - and ones I can read
one front tooth :}
jar of pickles
slippers
tickets (?) to Batting Cage - 10th Inning in Suwanee would be a good choice, or Next Level in Suwanee
tickets to Gwinnett Braves
Snuggie (seriously, he said that!)
Gwinnett Braves sweatshirt
long sleeved t-shirts
jeans
ties
church shirts
brown blazer


Cassidy

books
cash register (she's been eyeballing one at the disney store)
her own house
microwave
kitchen
sour cream
toilet paper ("I just like to play with it")
toy food
a bathrobe
"Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure"
art supplies ( my list of things that would work-water colors, markers, paper, collage items, stamps....)
snuggie (because her brother asked for it)
slippers


Todd

zip hoodie
GPS
new watch
cologne
baseball glove - Nike or Mizuno
digital frames
plasma flat screen
Gwinnett Braves gear & tickets
tennis shoes (or as Sarah calls them, sneakers)
iphone
laptop
"X-Men Origins" - dvd widescreen
"Iron Man" - dvd widescreen
jeans


Sarah

WRMK OR Basic Grey magnetic mat
gift cards to Archiver's work too
black or brown boots
flat iron
long denim skirt
personalized address stamp
a professional organizer to save my office from total destruction
a maid

december daily 6

i'm dreaming of a white christmas....
dream come true. we watched that classic tonight. still think there are some weird dances, still think betty way over-reacts, still think that it is the coolest thing that a whole regiment would drop everything they were doing at christmas eve and travel to vermont for a former general....(yes, i know it is just a movie)...but it makes me cry none-the-less. little tears, no sobbing or anything.
so, even though i'm in georgia and in the 10 years i've been here i have never had a white christmas, i'll keep on dreaming...

december daily 5

big day for the littlest littles...

xander got to meet his baseball hero chipper jones of the atlanta braves
amazing...i have to get him to tell me about it in his own words so i can write it down.
a friend from his baseball team(s), little babe and his dad emailed us last night to ask us about it. turns out it was going to overlap the same time as cassidy's first dance performance, but i let xander make his own decision. he had cassidy need to support each other in their activities, but this was an opportunity that wouldn't come around again, at least not any time soon. so he and todd both went. they had an incredible experience and still made it in time to see cassidy dance.

























and cassidy, my little skating ballerina, performed in her first performance. it was for the city of buford' holiday celebration. our arrival time was 1:00, the performance time was supposed to be 1:45, but we didn't go on until after 2:00. if she survived this one and wants to keep dancing, then she has dedication! it was FREEZING! and if we had been in massachusetts we still would have said it was FREEZING! cause it really was. definitely in the 30's. and my little baby danced. we kept her bundled up in her sweat pants and heavy jacket until it was time to go on.


george vidoed and todd took pictures. and she was SO CUTE. only one little hiccup...some of the other moms brought the costume skirts home to finish sewing, but not all of them made it to the performance. cassidy didn't have a white skirt with turquoise trim like the other girls. so ms. victoria took a skirt from one of the smaller older girls, a silver one, and told cassidy she was the STAR.

i've been talking her through it for the last few days, going through the arm movements and reminding her when it was her turn to run to the front of the stage. and she did...she watched the older girls and started the arm movements.

























when it was time to come to the front of the stage she ran all the way up front, farther up front than anyone else. she got a good chuckle from the crowd.










i still can't believe how cold it was, and that she got out there and did it. so proud baby ballerina!










this is her pose at the end of her performance and this is her at the end of the show, sans skirt!