more of the same

Here are December posts to facebook:
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Dec. 2------tried to feed my girl junk food for dinner. She calmly protested from her high chair "no pizza, no pizza!" then proceeded to ask for raw veggies. what is wrong with that child??

Dec. 3------the little man mr. T had his first fever. his big sister gave it to him. awww how sweet. she calls it a "tever". he's back to 98.6 currently

Dec. 5------yay yay yay!!!!! snow!!!! just a tiny fix for my major snow withdrawals but it will have to do. not any reason to get the snow shovel out but still it makes me happy. i will post some pictures soon-- jenny's first time to play in snow

Dec. 5------Here are some of my favorites of Jenny's recent mispronunciations:
lagdian------Raggedy Ann
jonah--------doughnut
chamburch--sandwich

Dec. 7------Thinking tonight about people who do not have computers or even cell phones.............. or even beds...........or other blessings that i take for granted.

Dec. 9------who has got some great advice for me regarding grocery savings?? i am trying to learn the secrets of the coupon craze. i have taken a look at southernsavers.com and coupons.com. i think i need couponing for dummies.

Dec. 9------today i went on huge target run (crammed a ton of stuff into the buggy despite both kids being in buggy) then a grocery run right after that. both kids zonked out in backseat. i am thinking SWEET. then i get to house and power is out. which means garage door won't open. which means i was locked out!! with 3 pounds raw chicken and 3 kinds of milk in the car. lucky me-- will was able to be home from work in about 1 hr.

Dec. 10-----my man T-roy just pooped in the potty. 5 months old. i am so serious. i know you are all laughing hard at me now. but i will do whatever i can think of to get jenny more interested in poop in potty!! she no longer does business behind curtain, but now she does it only in her bed (the only time she gets a diaper and also the only time that i will leave her by herself).

Dec. 11-----front page news: i woke up before my kids and got a shower and then was in the kitchen making pasta salad at 8AM. look outside and see if any pigs are flying

Dec. 12-----thinks static guard is the total bizzomb. thank you nina for showing me a few yrs ago that you can use it to tame crazy static hair

Dec. 13-----i love it when you pull up to the drive thru and jenny politely makes known her order request from the backseat. tonight at steak and shake she wanted "my very own shawby-berry milkshake and an ice cream chamburch"

Dec. 15-----we did the santa-picture-mall-extravaganza tonight. it was definitely worth it this year! do you think that if i went into their bedrooms and pinched their cheeks ---would they wake up? they are just so stinking CUTE. of course we all know why God makes children so cute........

Dec. 15-----i was reading the story of baby Jesus out of a golden book. I said that the wise men came with gifts of gold, frankincense and..........?? i waited to see if Jenny could fill in the blank. She confidently answered with "fruit roll up"

Dec. 16-----help! does anybody have a simple cookie icing recipe? i need to ice some gingerbread. i cannot find what i want at store. i want something thick that keeps the shape (but i need to be able to push it thru pastry bag) and i need it to dry up on the cookie--- not be messy.

Dec. 16-----went all betty crocker today and had to cook a jillion cookies. this bizarre event has to occur for me once every year during Christmas season. then will came home and started eating too many and i had to put the smack down.

Dec. 17-----just got rescued by the husband once again. locked myself out of house in PJ's! children INSIDE THE HOUSE watching dora. God was watching over us. There are men working on water pipes on our long country road. Today they are in my FRONT YARD. about 20 men. without them i would have had no phone. they also gave me a jacket and tried their best to get into my house until Will got home.

Dec. 17-----how many more trips to walmart before dec. 24th

Dec. 18-----My husband is going to be off work on Christmas day after all!!!! Yay!!!

Dec. 18-----its the most wonderful part.........of my day!!!! (naptime)

Dec. 19-----getting ready for Xmas party. put favorite shirt and some jeans into dryer to "fluff" out the wrinkles. fly around house doing other things to get ready to go. go to retrieve my clothes from dryer and discover that i MELTED A GREEN CRAYON in the dryer with my clothes. it was in my jeans pocket. proceeded to contort my body to wipe crayon off of every nook and cranny inside my dryer.

Dec. 24-----People! Santa Claus is coming to town!!!!!!!

Dec. 25-----this morning at 6:30 i heard my jenny shouting "the cookies are GONE momma! they're GONE!" (referring to santa's cookies and milk that we left out)

Dec. 25-----Jenny Raye SOOOOO worn out. fell asleep at 8pm in backseat while we were riding around looking at christmas lights. Troy had full dose benadryl and still stayed up later than her!

Dec. 28-----don't even think for a second that one massive 36 hr headache and a sinus bug that is slowly taking all the Christophers out one by one is going to stop ME from taking care of business with the Christmas plans. i am MOMMA after all. sigh. now all the festivities are over, i can breathe perhaps. oh......forgot --no breathing allowed. nose too stopped up.

Dec. 29-----it was time for caillou on the TV. which means for sure jenny will zone in and i can do a chore. i am busy working in her room finding places for her new toys from santa. at the end of the show she comes and asks me nicely to make her a box. "just like caillou" she persists nicely asking for me to please make her a box. what in the world. if only i had paid some attention to that episode.

Dec. 29-----had to take both my babies to doc today. just me, a 5 month old, and a doctor-phobic toddler. and it wasn't so bad. the doctor-phobe did REALLY well. i was so proud of her! i think she might be over her phobia. although she had no blood drawn or shots given........

Dec. 30-----jenny helps me bring dirty clothes to kitchen. phone rings. then she also dumps clean clothes in kitchen floor. then she is missing. then i hear her on monitor talking to troy in his crib. she says "twoy's awake!" then i make mad troy happy. then i look in kitchen and see my evil cat peeing on the misc. clothes in floor. kick cat til i feel better. turn to see jenny shoving the (empty) med syringe in troy's mouth.

Dec. 30-----troy finally acted like his big sis used to. he was mad redhead boy at outback tonight and we had to LEAVE before we could even order!! you have to understand that he is super-baby. he is sooo content 24/7. so we were like what is WRONG with the boy. even bottle would not shut him up. and he is milkman. cried some more in the car but when we got home he was super chill baby and grinning big. love parenthood! LOVE IT!

Dec. 31-----my cat is trying to make a statement by peeing where he should not. and clearly that statement is: "i want to be cremated"

Dec. 31-----midnight negotiations with jenny (she has a fever): "eat this candy and I'll give you some chocolate milk." eagerly grabs the chewable tylenol, shoves it in mouth and promptly spits it out. "I'll give you some m&m's if you'll take your medicine" "I'll bring Little Dee to sleep in your bed" "I'll bring him to your bed AND let you put a hat on him"---finally she perks up: "I need a hat for me too."

Dec. 31-----a family trip to zaxby's and then walmart. that is how we wild Christophers party. bought a couple of jazzy new year tiaras for me and jenny to wear. Will said he was ringing in the new year by purchasing a new toothbrush. i mean we are WILD. i must say, at 8pm soddy walmart was lookin great. nearly had the place to ourselves.
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OK. only one more "facebook posts" entry to come (Jan-Feb 2010) and then i promise to write a real blog entry.