11.17.2014

Strange kids and Stranger weather!

Who would have thought that out of both our kids it would be the girl that doesn’t like to wear a shirt?! But, she’s a little strange in many ways. . . .

Just a little ketchup with her apples. Yum.

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Last Sunday we went to Hickory Ridge to eat lunch and then us girls went up to the church for Brandye’s baby shower. It was nice, she got lots of nice things of course! And Darcy got held A LOT.

The kids singing and playing with Darcy

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On Wednesday, I went to school and ate lunch with Stratton and then took him to the book fair. I really didn’t want to send $ with him to buy book by himself. He’d come home with $20 worth of pencil erasers or something ridiculous! I noticed this hanging in the hall way. . .

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Do What??

When I asked, He said he was thankful for teepees. Really?!

Then he said he was actually thankful for the Indians that invented teepees and fed the pilgrims. Okay. That makes more sense, I guess.

We are encountering troubles at bedtime. Arden will not lay down in her crib and go to sleep. She was always rocked to sleep as a baby (SO bad! I know!!!) and now at 2 years old we have created a monster. A monster who no longer wants to be rocked, instead she wants to either: a.) lay in the floor on a blanket while I sit beside her and rub her back till she falls asleep or b.) get in our bed while I lay down with her till she falls asleep.

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It was option B on this night! My sciatic nerve doesn’t like me sitting in the floor for long periods of time! She is a sweet snuggler, though!

Thursday I took the day off work and Lori, Erica and I headed out to Memphis to the jewelry show! We left at 8:45, but due to the ice (yes it was so cold the bridges froze!) accidents and ongoing construction we didn’t get there till noon! It was crazy!! Good thing we had lots to talk about! Ha! We had a great time shopping! I bought lots of Christmas presents! I got Arden and Darcy these cute winter outfits. Darcy needs to grow!!

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Arden wanted to put her’s on immediately and then I had a horrible time getting her to take it off and put her jammies on! At least I know it fits!

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Friday night we had supper at Fat City and then stopped at Andy’s. I let Arden have icecream in the car. Not a great idea. But hey she was happy and quiet on the way home! You do what you gotta do to keep the peace!!

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Saturday Jarrod worked and so the kids and I just stayed in (it was really cold) and played and enjoyed a day of not having to be anywhere! The kids were wound up! They smooth wore me out! Stratton and Arden had an altercation very early in the day. What happened is Stratton built a duck blind out of pillows and blankets, well when Arden saw it what did she do??? Yep, knocked it down. Then Stratton tackled her, and of course she bit him. She bit him good. I mean she didn’t release his arm till I pulled him off of her (he was still on top). Man oh man. He screamed for 20 minutes!! And it looked awful! I got on to her, but not that bad. She was just defending herself! I mean he’s bigger and on top of her?! What else has she got to use against him?! It was like that pretty much all day. Also while I was trying to fix lunch I noticed that I Arden wasn’t around me (which is odd) and she was very quiet. RED FLAG!!! I went to look for her and found her in their bathroom sitting in the floor, eating Spiderman toothpaste. Good times.

Jarrod was going to go to the ASU game at 2pm, but he ended up working later than he thought he’d have to and didn’t get to go. I had already told him I wasn’t going to this one, it was supposed to be very, very cold! After my morning and afternoon with the kids I didn’t feel like going anywhere or doing anything!! I wanted to go to bed early, but ended up staying up to watch the Razorbacks actually win! Who would have thought?? They beat LSU 10-0 and ended their 17 game losing streak!

Sunday after church we went to Hickory Ridge to eat lunch with the family for Daddy’s birthday. We had a good afternoon visiting and then when most of the family left mom dug out the baby pictures (to compare and see if Darcy looks like Dillon- Nope.) and we had a good time looking through those. Then we loaded up and headed back home in time for church.

The weather wasn’t looking good, they were calling for 1-2 inches of SNOW! SNOW!!! In November!! Crazy!! But I was actually looking forward to a day off (maybe not with the hoodlums, but I will take what I can get!) but of course we didn’t get more than a dusting and it was business as usual today! I’m glad the kids didn’t have to use a snow day, too. That would have been bad especially considering how bad they are saying this winter is going to be! They probably need to save as many as they can! But it is cold! I think the temps this week will be record breaking lows!