Mama's Boy!!!

Zach is such a mama's boy! I need to enjoy it now because it is already starting to change to some degree. He already won't kiss me in front of someone else. He doesn't want anyone to see!!! AND he is 5 for PETE's SAKE!

To give an example of this, which I have talked about before.....

I can not take him to his primary class at church, or to preschool, or anywhere else for that matter that I need to leave him for a period of time. Whether it be for 30 minutes or 5 minutes he throws a fit.

Dave was sick yesterday and wasn't able to attend church with us. He usually takes him to his primary class just because he will go just fine, well...usually will go just fine. I took him to primary (singing time), and he would not stay. Cling'd onto me and cried. I ended up taking him outside and telling him that if he didn't go without whining and trouble then he wouldn't be able to play the Wii. Thinking that would fix the problem. I took him back in and this time stood behind the chair I was putting him in so he couldn't grab me. Picked him up and into the chair and quickly walked out while he cried. I walked by the room a few minutes later just to check on the progress. His nice teacher was now sitting by him and cute Michelle B. was rubbing his back. I am so happy to have people that will step in and comfort him to make being the mom easier on me. He loved primary class and was really happy afterward. It is just the initial departure that is the pain for him (and me).

After church he asked me if he could play the Wii. I said well I don't know, you didn't do very well going to class today. He started to sob, "WELL MOM - I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE YOU!!!" as my heart melts a little. I said OK well give me a kiss - HA! Have to get those every chance I can now. I told him that he needed to try harder next week and not have a melt down when it was time for class.

So it was later in the evening and he asked again if he could play the Wii. I said do you think you should be able to play. Remember how you acted at church today.

In this little high voice a little bit whining and crying he says.....

OH, OKAY MOM, JUST GROUND ME. JUST GROUND ME MOM.

I of course had to scoop him up and give him some lovin! That is when we got to explain to dad what happened.

Dave and I just laughed together, we couldn't let him know how cute we thought is was.

And one good thing, Zach said he would try to be better when I take him somewhere. I am just glad that he is still MAMA's BOY!!!!!

Some Catching Up to Do

Bear with me...sorry to post about past events. This is for my benefit since I can't seem to remember what happened over the weekend when I am asked about it on Monday.

Since this is quite a convenient way to journal....you are stuck with things of the past for now.

Happy to have our computer back up and running.

A good friend of ours sacrificed a night to come and help us get up and going again. It is amazing how much we depend on our computers.

One of these days maybe I will be "back to the future"

ha ha ha

Christmas Day

The kids woke up ecstatic because of anticipation of what Santa brought. They know they can't go to the living room until everyone is up and awake so it is usually pile on mom and dad in their bed. As soon as we were finished with the present thing Dave got dressed in his winter garb to go out and start diggin us out. Quite the snow storm!!! It took him atleast an hour so I was happy he was able to get out there and get started so that we could get to grandma's house.

Ali was pretty much awake all night long. I think she slept maybe two hours if that. I would tell a story about that if I knew that she didn't read this blog....however she does so I will have to save that for a hand written journal.
Zach gave Ali twin baby alives.... this was in hopes to help fill her baby hungry problem that she constantly has. She can feed them and change their diaper. We are going to have to make some cloth diapers or something because those little disposables that you can buy at the store for them are pricey. I think Zach's favorite item that he got was a batman, joker figurine and a few Star Wars figures too.

Another Favorite!...The kids also got a Wii which has been great quality family time together and FUN. Zach has this funny hop that he does when he is bowling. It is hilareous. He has a hard time if he is losing and I have noticed that Ali does too. The other day Zach was beating her at a game and she said, we need to turn this off. I hope my kids learn to be better sports. I told them that they need to say great job, now lets play again and see if I can do better. OR something like that.

One of our traditions is to go to Grandma Jeanne's house (Dave's mom) for breakfast. This year breakfast was at 9:00. It is so nice to have breakfast at grandama's house so we don't have to think about food. Just our little contribution of what we are suppose to take to share. We wake up and do our presents and then get ready to leave for the day. We go to Grandma Jeanne's house first then on to my parents house just down the street from Grandma Jeanne's.

We usually don't get home until around 6:00 or 7:00 in the evening. So we have to try and plan for the whole day. I make sure we have everything packed up so we don't have to come back home for something....which sometimes we still have to return.



The cousins watching Colby play one of his Nintendo DS games. They were entertained watching him play for quite some time. He did share, which was nice too. Notice my kids faces, they are holding their mouths the same way. Ha!



Then

Jolie having a little Christmas Dinner Snack

Christmas Parties & Family

We had so much fun with family this year at our different parties we had. Ali and Zach loved playing with cousins and doing fun activities.

At one family party Ali hogged the Karaoke machine. She really love that.

American Dog - Condo

Grandpa and Ali building Lexi a dog house on one of his days off.
They had a lot of fun looking at plans on the internet and deciding what the dog house would look like. Then they printed the plans they wanted and headed to Home Depot to make some purchases. As mentioned in our Christmas card. Ali told my dad that "we already have a hammer and nails so it will be free". She was so excited to make her dog a house. It is amazing too. It has about 2-3 inch thick insulation inside. Should be toasty and water proof.

They painted it Red, White and Blue cause he said Lexi is an All American Dog!