(As portrayed by Mom & Dad)
When asked about whether I have any girlfriends, my response:
I hammered her. I sawed her. I screwed her.
Yep. That’s me. Of course, I mean I play with my girls with my plastic hammer, saw, and screw driver.
Merry Christmas everyone! Get to sleep so Santa comes!
Last night I camped out at Grandma and Grandpa’s house. Mommy wanted a trial night away, for her sanity not mine, since I have never at this point spent a night away from Mommy. Grandma and Grandpa picked me up at 5pm and took me to dinner and then to go visit my Great Grand Parents. I had a nice time playing “magic wand” and “disappearing” everyone. Grandma gave me a bath and tucked me into my giraffe tent, which I wanted no part of. I ended up sleeping in my port-a-crib.
Overall I did very well. Mommy did well too. I had been having a rough week emotionally (cutting another molar) and Mommy was tuckered out. Mommy & Daddy judged a holiday light contest and then went to the mall (maul!) to just wander around. They took use of the “expecting mother” space right by the entrance door and giggled as everyone else was fighting for spaces!
I got dropped home around 9am this morning and then we ran a few errands. At 11am Daddy had to help out Santa Claus (since Santa is SUPER busy this weekend getting ready for his big trip) and pass out goodies to kids in the neighborhood. Since I am deathly paranoid of Santa this year it was a good thing for me to see Daddy dressed in one of Santa’s extra suits (it was way too big on Daddy!). Mommy and Daddy took great care helping me understand that Daddy was in the suit and not Santa. I think it was really nice of Daddy to help out Santa that way! You go Daddy!!!!
Here are a few shots of the day.
“Daddy Santa” and “Mommy Giant” (my parents new nicknames!)
Daddy Santa getting frisky!! Naughty Daddy Santa!!
The family as we are now… baby brother will be here in 24 days!
Mommy is making a strange face because she was helping me eat a piece of candy cane!
This Santa’s lap i WILL sit on!
Candy canes are YUMMY! I had three!
Grandma and Grandpa stopped by to see Santa too!
Today at the grocery store I turned to Mommy and said…
“LOOK MOMMY! That is the BIGGEST banana I have EVERY seen!!!!”
Mommy was very impressed with my verbal skills as was the lady next to us shopping. I managed to convince Mommy that she should buy me the banana. I ate it in the car on the way home!
Mommy has decided that today is just yucky. She is still exhausted after yesterday and the fish tank stuff. I have been a ball of energy today…. insane energy. I came running up to Mommy and told her I had “poopies”. She whisked me to the bathroom and started gagging. I haven’t seen Mommy gag in ages over a diaper. I didn’t even make it to the changing table… straight to the tub. Mommy got me all clean and she was entering final rinse cycle on me and the water color turned rusty brown. Hmmmm. NOT ME!!!!! NOT ME!!!!
This happens every few years when the city flushes out water lines but Daddy called and they said they weren’t flushing any lines in the area. The city is sending someone out to look at it. In the mean time… it doesn’t smell funky just looks “off”. So we will stick to bottled beverages until it passes or the city tells us we have to boil it all!
It is foggy out and just feels like a gloomy day. Hopefully things will take a turn for the better.
Well, Mommy and Daddy opted to get a bunch of new stuff for my huge fish tank. Mommy spent all of my nap and then the time until Daddy got home from work getting all the fish acclimated and ready to go. Mommy got the new fish and invertebrates (2 jawfish, 1 fire-fish goby, 3 arrow crabs, 3 sand sifter star fish, some other crabs) into the tank right before Daddy got home.
I opted for a short nap because I was so excited about my new fish. Anyway, Mommy and Daddy spent the next… well… way past MY bedtime…. working on the tank. At 6pm everything was in the tank and secured to the rocks. Daddy offered to watch me so Mommy could go get a pedicure. Mommy turned down the offer because she has a cut on her foot and didn’t want to get any icky from the salon. WELL…Then the night took a turn for the worse for all those involved. My half-black angel fish started pecking at the new corals. She had to go! After 2 hours of yelling and screaming (mainly at the fish) no one could net the bugger. I went to bed and this is the story that I was told.
Mommy & Daddy took about 80% of the live rock out of the tank to eliminate all the hiding places. After about 1 hour of this unloading of the tank Mommy was finally able to net the fish (with Daddy’s help of course!). They also took out the coral beauty angel just to be safe. (Mommy said that one was EASY to catch!) Then came more raised tempers as Mommy & Daddy tried to put the live rock back in the tank like it was before. Eventually hands were thrown in the air and rocks were just put in where they looked nice and seamed to fit. At 11:30 Mommy took the two fish over to her friend Jamie’s house (Ethan’s Mommy) and put them in their tank to live or die. At that point the other option was the toilet and a flush! Mommy got home just before midnight and helped Daddy finish cleaning up the house.
What an ordeal! And why did we all want a fish tank again???
Mommy & Daddy still have to epoxy the new corals to the live rocks, AGAIN! But that task will wait until this afternoon when I take my nap.
Mommy and Daddy felt terrible that I didn’t get much attention last night… just a lot of cartoons. I cried a lot but I know it was for my safety that I wasn’t allowed to be underfoot. Plus both Mommy & Daddy were REALLY grumpy. Everyone is fine today, just a little tuckered out!