Christmas Shopping Update

A special thanks to Jay's mom who kindly volunteered to watch Ryan Friday so I could get some things done. I managed to get to the doctor(which I have been meaning to do for a while now) and go shopping with Erin without babies! It's so much easier to shop without babies! I got a good bit of my Christmas shopping done. I'm feeling much more relaxed about it now. I only have a few people left to buy for in my extended family and I got a good start on the boy's gifts. Now we just need to buy a tree, clean, decorate the house, make Christmas day plans and wrap everything. Aren't the holidays great;-)

Monkey Business

There is a sale at Gymboree that I found out about on Erin's blog. Normally I wouldn't even think about spending so much on baby clothes, but they have this Monkey and Friends collection that is perfect for my little monkey. I was able to resist the regular prices, but I am very tempted by the sale prices. Even though the sale prices would seem fairly expensive to me normally I am torn by the apparent bargain off the regular price. I blame Erin for showing me this collection of monkey outfits! Will someone try to convince me it's okay to spend $20 on a sweater or a pair of overalls? If my will power breaks I may end up splurging on the hooded cardigan it's so adorable! ::grasping wallet tightly::

Christmas is coming...

And I'm NOT ready! There is so much to do. Boy I long for the days when I only had to buy a couple presents. Buying four presents for each set of family Kris Kringles and for all our immediate family is so much more than I'm used to. Boy I'm glad we do Kris Kringles though, with my huge family I'd never get my shopping done otherwise! I guess I'm a little over half done with extended family gifts and I have not even been to a store yet. That's pretty good I guess. I'm hoping to get out to the store soon so I can get the kids done and get some things for all the rest of the KKs. I think everyone should have a list! I am totally lost for about 6 of the people I have to buy for. If they just had a list like mine things would be sooooo much easier! I like to buy people something that suits their personality or something that they need instead of just some trinket or generic thing that kinda works for 'all girls' or 'all guys'. But this year I may be pushed to buy Bath and Body works. I just don't have the time I used to have for browsing and trying to find a gift that would be right for each person. It's especially hard when the people closest to the person you are trying to get ideas for don't have any ideas themselves! What to do, what to do?!

Silly Quiz

You are Belle from Beauty and the Beast!

Okay it's a silly quiz with totally unrealistic questions, but I've always wanted to be a Disney Princess and now I am, see? ;-)

What Disney Princess are you?
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So Many Cute Moments Today!

We had so many cute moments today that I couldn't just pick one. Ryan has been sitting in anything that he could for the past few weeks. This is one of his favorites. He looked so cute I had to take some pictures. Really it's a table that has 2 sides, a lego side and an activity side. He takes out the flipable part and sits in the bin. I took the legs off when he fell over onto a table and hit his head. He still likes to sit in it. I keep thinking how much he needs a chair, but I put a little sofa on his Christmas list. I don't want to go out and buy a chair if someone is getting him the sofa, so we are just going to wait until Christmas. Maybe I'll get a couple bean bags chairs for the play room for Christmas. I've thought of a couple things to add to his Christmas list just by watching him today. Like a portable musical device of some kind. He loves to carry around the Leap Frog Fridge Farm that Erin and Ben gave him for his birthday. He will make it play a song and he holds it and dances. I should write these things down as I think of them because I know there are some I can't remember now.
I was busy thinking about blogging about the table/chair when a package arrived from my mom. Boy was that a big hit! First I got out the very cute, soft bear and Ryan got a huge grin on his face. Apparently one of Mom's German friends made the bear. How cool is that? I've gotten some really great gifts that mom's friends have made. He cuddled the bear for a while. Again, out came the camera. I just missed an adorable kiss that he gave the bear. We went back to the rest of the gift. Ryan grabbed a book from the package and plopped down in my lap to read. After reading the two books I started uploading the pictures. I should have known better because he got the box and put it on his head and started playing peek-a-boo! Duh- The box is always their favorite part! The instant the photos were uploaded I unplugged the camera and took some pictures of his peek-a-boo game. It was a fun day!

In case you don't know-CLICK ON THE PICTURES FOR BETTER RESOLUTION. And if you move the mouse over the better picture's bottom right corner a small square will appear to expand the picture even more!
This boy so needs a chair!

Soft bear

Where's Ryan?


Peek-a-boo!