Christmas Days Equal Fail

This past week we accompolished 1 day of our 25 days of Christmas. I have to say it was not the best week. Anthony was laid off thank goodness. I know who would normally be happy with their husband not working. I was after I saw how the week was going to start. Eli was still getting over being sick so he was not very cooperative and whiny whiny whiny! Then Lilliana started with teeth. Oh my! I thought Eli was cranky. No this girl has him beat! She would not sleep but for hour increments even at night last week. I felt like a zombie. I also have felt terrible. I am back to having terrible morning sickness. I actually have lost weight this pregnancy something that never happens and I am not complaining. Thankfully Anthony and I could take shifts. Either way neither of us were getting great sleep and I have had a baby attached to my hip for about a week including most of today. Her entire back gums are swollen and look extremely painful. Hopefully they pop through soon. We did have one pop through. This has put me behind in baking and everything else. She turned 10 months yesterday and I took her pictures but have yet to even download them so hopefully those will come tomorrow.

Not sure what day it was but Eli and I did go shoppping for Lilliana. That was our "day of Christmas." It was amusing taking him shopping for her present. He wanted to give her everything he wanted. Finally I picked out a couple things and he chose. He got her a pink car and even used some of his chore money to buy it. He then helped me wrap it.

It ended in tears as he was furious I would not let him play with it.

Lilliana has been able to stand up to something if put there for a while. She pulled up to her knees and then would just sit there. Finally last week she is pulling up to standing and walking around things and she is proud of herself!



Boxes with Christmas presents have been coming for the kids from my family in Idaho. Eli loves getting the boxes as he loves to play in them.


He also has discovered a new way to vacuum............................................himself. Including trying to give himself a poor looking comb over.


As always his favorite thing to do is play with his sister. It melts my heart! I love how they play and he just makes her smile and giggle.

Yep that is my heart right there and it just makes it melt. It brings tears to my eyes which happens a lot lately either due to hormones or I just have become a crier. I love them to pieces!

Eli has just been hilarious lately. His new things are..........

~Anthony's work is the "truck station."
~Our car is dirty and "we need to get a car wash." I hear that every time I get in the car. He may be right but I think he just likes to go through the car wash.
~Anything that does not work that is a toy that makes noise etc. "needs fixed." This means he wants me to get him a screwdriver and he will change the batteries on his own. He does not want help. He does fine with the screw driver it is getting the batteries to go the right way that causes problems.
Those are just the recent funny things I can think of.


He got to go to daycare today so Lilliana and I enjoyed our day together. I should say I caught up on sleep! She has not slept well so we tried to get caught up. She also screamed a lot from teeth. I saw this a lot.......

Notice the curl!! Sister has curly hair and we are LOVING it! Although it was a little wild today!

She also got her first pigtails! Might I say she looks adorable!


I made baked spaghetti tonight. I decided there is always a first for everything so I let her go to town. She was of course cranky from teeth but she enjoyed it and then enjoyed her bath.

Gotta love the way she had her feet propped up on the chair.




Happy Monday everybody! Hopefully tomorrow we can get more baking done.