Dear Santa (and any relatives that need ideas)

If you are not related to us you probably won't be at all interested in this post:-)

Christmas Wish lists


Family:
Wii Fit
Guitar Hero for Wii
Wii Music

The adults:
Patio furniture
a fire pit
a new kitchen sprayer (the part of the sink kind)
a small brushed silver trash can with a lid
a Li-ion battery 3.7v for Canon TX1
Star Wars Clone Wars for Wii--lightsaber battles!!! so cool!

Jen:
Cuddl Silks size small (this is a brand of cute long underwear- I've seen them at Macy's and Sears-on sale this week at Sears) I have one pair and LOVE them
Adobe Photoshop Elements
socks
Nice camera bag with room for lenses and a flash
Camera accesories-UV filter, camera cleaning kit, flash bouncing card(I don't know what it's really called, but you mount it behind your flash to bounce the light), shadow box

Jay:
Crisis Warhead
electric shaver (Braun series 5 or 7)
travel coffee mug that won't leak even when turned upside down


The kids:
Balloon Lagoon by Cranium
2 Wii remotes
cash register
real gymnastics mats (available through our gymnastics place and other places)
9' folding practice beam (also available through our gymnastics place and other places I'm sure)
High School Musical 3 Dance for the Wii
Lego Star Wars for Wii

Lily:
Princess bedspread and/or sheets- toddler bed size
Princess anything
Imagination movers CD (it's a kids group from the Disney channel)
dress up stuff (I saw these whole kits at Target for $15- they had Snow White and Cinderella when I was there)
Little People sets
a small flashlight
Cariboo by Cranium
Full length mirror
crib or cradle for doll babies
slippers (size 7)
preschooler durable music player (CD or MP3)

Ryan:
....according to him....
Mustangs
Soccer goal
cool robots (we got one, the U Command Wall-E)
Brio Building sets-motorcycle and race car (These are not readily available. However there is an erector set that I think would fit the bill. One of the models is a motorcycle. I've seen it several different places, so you don't have to buy through that link.)
cool cars
Lightning McQueen toys
Wii games
cool book about Dinosaurs
....added by me....
a small flashlight
slippers size 11/12
Didj by Leap Frog
art "how to" books- he has suddenly taken a huge interest in drawing

Zach:
Wii games- Mario Cart and Super Paper Mario
DS games- Mario party, Pokemon Pearl, Guitar Hero
books by Brian Jacques
comic books

Please note that I will be using this list too.
I will probably continue to add things and I can take something off if you want me to.

Hair Salon

Lily and I played our first game of hair salon. She found the detangling spray I use on her and Ryan and started spraying in my hair. I think she was trying to tease me and expected me to make her stop, but I didn't. We both decided to go with it. She told me she needed to get something and she ran up to my room and got my hairbrush. She brushed my hair and did something that was supposed to be styling it. Then she turned my face to look at her and said, "Look how pwitty!" I love having a girl to do girl things with. The best part is she is not a frilly girly girl. She's a real down to earth, fun girl who likes her femininity, but it doesn't define her. LOVE it!

The votes are in and the winner is...

paper!

Ryan is polling princesses. The first vote was for paper or pencil and paper won. It works like this: Ryan looks around the room and picks two things. Then he asks Lily how each princess vote on the "issue." She gives him an answer for each one and he counts them up. In the second election cars beat out robots. Babies won in a landslide victory over strollers and Mustang edged out digger. It's fun to watch Ryan develop his understanding of real life things. I'm glad I ended up taking him with me today when I voted.

Happy Halloween

Beautiful Belle

I wanted to get a picture of Dash, but he was too fast!

Dash stops running to give Princess Belle a hug.

Never Again...Maybe

Remember that post about Lily being potty trained? I take it all back. As I was writing that very post Lily had an accident. The first of many. These are not usually full fledged pee running down the leg accidents, but they are enough that we need to change her clothes. Some might call it irony, some might call it the blog curse, I just call it annoying. I'm hoping it's just because she has been sick. I'm really, really hoping it stops soon.