Basketball

So, today we bought the Moose an indoor glow-in-the-dark basketball set (hoop & ball).  SOOO awesome!  Yobo, being the handy kinda guy he is, just happened to have a handheld black light & was able to super charge the set & made the house all dark... we had our first ever family glow-in-the-dark basketball game!  It was a blast!  The Moose really digs it.  She screams out "ball!" every single time she sees a round object  :)

every part that's white glows in the dark!

see our awesome new furniture?!  we got 2 bean bag chairs for Christmas (BIG on our list)

 

Merry Christmas, Day 3.

What's my name again?!  Ha!  It's been a crazy week already - we at least finally got some of the house cleaned up after 3 days of not being home very much and a whole lot of new stuff accompanying us when we did return.  All in all, this was a most excellent Christmas.  We saw family that we hadn't seen before the Moose was born & were blessed to meet new family  :D  It's lovely being home (I'm on vacation until next year!), being able to just take the aftermath of Christmas Chaos in stride (cleaning & finding places for new things, purging some of the old, saying hello to everyone, playing almost the whole time with this super awesome kid!, and not being overwhelmed with rushing through all of it).  This is the first time I've ever taken a Christmas vacation and, so far, I'm rather liking this taking time off at Christmas thing!  

We went to lunch today at Mema's & picked up the Moose's Big Wheel bike she got yesterday (she's been playing with it at Mema's since Mimi bought it, but was finally allowed to take it home for Christmas LOL).  Tonight we cleaned up the living room so she has a straight shot from her bedroom, down the hallway, through the kitchen, down the other hallway, and into our room!  Now, if she could just reach the pedals, she'd be golden.  We dropped off lunch to Mimi & said hello to everyone at the shop.  Yobo, the Moose, & I went for a walk, shoveled some snow, went shopping, ate some pizza together.  We watched Arthur Christmas, had a poosplosion-necessitated bath, and danced a whole lot.  When SOMEone's been asleep, I've been glued to my new Kindle - I'm currently reading the Alchemyst on it, not bad :)  Happy day after Christmas!     

Merry Christmas, Day 2

At Nana's house for the morning!  She made it a whole 15 minutes before getting into a chocolate donut, smearing chocolate all over the front.  pretty sure that's a record!

SO cute!  Santa nephew passing the Moose a present  :D

me & Yobo <3

Back at Grandma's... the Moose refuses to get on the horse, but she loves it because it whinnies & makes rhythmic trotting noises.  Pooh rode the horse while she danced around them to the horsey noises.

Instant love.  The Moose & her Uncle J - this was the first time they met (he lives out of state) & she was all over him.  She rarely gets this comfortable with someone she's just met, but she let him pick her up, flip her all over, and then they snuggled together watching TV - it was awesome. 

After a long day, she finally let us get a picture of her WITH the Santa hat on!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

 

Triumph!

I got an A on my final!!!  Yay!  My overall score for the class was 97-something  :)  Alright, Intermediate Algebra down, now on to Class #3 - College Algebra.  w00t!

I did it! Yay!

That was her first sentence.  Last Friday night, the 3 of us were on the floor, talking & playing; Charles was helping the Moose get in & out of her hammock.  She finally got out on her own, for the first time ever, stood up & shouted "I did it! Yay!" and gave herself a round of applause/  It was so cool because both Yobo & I were sitting right there with & both witnessed the whole thing.  Such an awesome moment! 

Last week, she informed us that she will probably spend some of her adult life as a DJ.

And today, little Ms. Helpful finally let me take pictures of her doing laundry  :)  She loads both the washer & dryer and shuts the doors.

Today was a good day

So, it's in the middle of Sew Mama Sew!'s Giveaway Day (a week of fabric & handmade giveaways right before Christmas).  And it was Secret Santa at work - I got a box of Haagen Daz dark chocolate & almond covered peppermint ice cream bars.  And the peppermint ice cream wasn't crazy sweet - it was a lovely vanilla with a bit of peppermint (super yummy).  And it was lovely massage day.  And she only charged me $25!  And, even though the massage was 1 1/2 hrs long & I talk a lot, the ice cream was totally fine in the car because it was only 4ºF outside.  And, even though I forgot the ice cream in the car when I got home, it was totally fine when I went back out to get it 2 hours later.  And the house was cleaned & dinner was on the table when I got home (I was SO hungry)!  And the Moose was so very cheerful & full of good belly laughs tonight.  And she says "cookies" as "caca" & that cracks me up EVERY single time.  And she was super tired from not taking her afternoon nap & went to bed early & I had more time to work on Christmas presents.  And Yobo & I got some "future home" stuff planned out.  And our awesome neighbors stopped by with a card & crazy generous Christmas presents.  And the migraine never arrived.  And there's a new episode of Castle - it's called Secret Santa  :)  Thank you.