Christmas in Review

Tuesday Dec 23rd we headed to Louisiana. Maddox in the third row, Daddy laid up in the second row, and Mommy at the wheel. Good thing I know how to drive the Expedition with a big blind spot right in the middle of the back window. We got to Eunice about 5pm. Ali was waiting on Maddox. The two of them played their hearts out. At about 8pm the crew came to visit at Andre's and we had 7 kids under the age of 4 (Most of them 3) running around. It was wild, but they had a great time! 
Wednesday Dec 24th Maddox and Ali woke up to lots of presents under the tree. They had a great time opening all of their gifts. We had a wonderful lunch thanks to Andre! Nice to visit with Maw Maw Pont, Uncle Larry, Pawsy, Paran, Ali, and Uncle Milton even dropped by for a few minutes. We headed out to Roanoke at about 8 or so that night. Once we got to the house we all went for a quick drive to Jennings to see Christmas lights... and what is a trip to Louisiana without a drive thru daiquiri-Bubba's Chosen Frozen was literally one of the only things open on Christmas eve. 
Thursday Dec 25th Maddox woke up right in time to open presents as the last one had been placed under the tree. He opened a TON of Batman and Superfriends toys. I really don't know if we have enough room for all of his stuff now. We had a nice day of hanging around with Granny and Auntie Shyra. Granny made Max's favorite chicken & dumplin's for lunch. Yummy!!! Did I mention that it was almost 80° and so muggy you could cut the air with a knife. No white Christmas for us... not even close. 
Friday Dec 26th was spent preparing for the Dees Family game night. One of my favorite parts of the holidays. We always end up laughing till we can't stop. This year we played Family Feud for the first time. It was soooo funny. We had a great host and lots of awesome contestants. What is a name that you would call your pet but wouldn't want to be named??? Puss puss...While the adults played games and chatted the kids had a BLAST running around after each other. I know mine slept like a log that night. I hope Will, Sarah and Jude did too!
Saturday Dec 27th was spent lounging around visiting a few family members we hadn't seen yet and packing to head home. We went by Auntie Una's house and played the Wii Fit for a little bit. Lets just say I know that I will never be a hula hooper or a tight rope walker, but I am a decent ski jumper (even though I have never put on a pair of ski's). Auntie Shyra is an awesome hula girl. Nick ski jumps pretty well too! Auntie Una is a ball of snow and Kasey has some of the best balance on the planet. We had fun! After that we hit the road. The weather was ugly and rained a good bit of the way home. Driving a big SUV in the wind and the rain is no fun at all. I was glad to be home in my own bed, but we had a great Christmas trip!A funny note from when we got back. The James family sent Maddox a gift and we unwrapped it when we got home. Little guy looks at the label on the gift and says "It says I was good today! so I can open my present."

What do you want for Christmas?

I was going to try to write a letter to Santa for the little guy this year. So hubby asks him what he would like for Christmas. He responds with " I want a pumpkin I can wear on my head!" The things that boy says sometimes I just don't know where they come from. I am going to try to ask him again to see what other wonderful things he wants Santa to bring him. 

The new room

We recently moved Maddox to his new room. It is down the hall from ours where the study used to be. So far it is working out alright. He does still wander in to our room during the night. I figure the beginning of the New Year we will hard core try to break him of this but the holidays will be hard core. 

So tonight my little man has been wired. I mean really wound up. It didn't matter what I asked him to do he was not paying attention. So when he asked to watch TV and have a cookie (not together), he was told "Nope, Boys who don't listen don't get to have cookies or watch TV! Those are rewards and you haven't done what you were told." So as you can imagine that didn't go over too well. He tells me "Mommy, You not listening right!" and then walks into his new room and slams the door behind him. I figured it would be a little longer before I would get the storming off into his room thing, but I guess he really does take after his mom. So he comes in and tells me he is sorry and asks again for a cookie and tv. He gets the same answer. Once again he marches down the hall, looks back at me and says "You can't go in my room!" and closes the door behind him.

After a while he came out and tried again with his Daddy. That didn't work either. Then he proceeded to tell his Daddy that "Mommy not my friend anymore. She no listen to me. I want my cookie and TV and she wont let me have them!"

Sometimes I feel like he is a teenager already!

All Clean

So this morning as we are getting ready to go to church my little guy is quietly watching Home Alone 3 in the front while we are in the back getting ready. He ran in at one point and grabbed something, put it behind his back and in a flash he was gone. I didn't really think anything of it as he has been doing that a lot lately. I am finished getting dressed and go in the front to check on him when what do I find....

That thing he had picked up and put behind his back was a travel sized bottle of shampoo. I didn't know this at first viewing the scene. All I could see was there was a white substance coating the dvd player and parts of the table it was on. Then I saw the small bottle on the floor. I pick it up... empty. The entire contents had been poured out over the dvd player, table, a book, a dvd, the support box for the tv and the tv speakers

. I just didn't know what to say. I stood there speechless for a minute and then did what any mother would do. I went and grabbed my camera for blackmail material later on or proof of the event, whichever comes first. 

When his father came up to see what all the commot

ion was about he just stood there speechless as well.

 What do you say to an entire entertainment area covered in shampoo. 

When asked why he had done it the reply I got was.. "I wanted to make it clean!"

After quite a bit of cleaning we got all the shampoo off of everything. I don't believe that anything was permanently damaged. Thankfully!

Snow!!!

Tonight it snowed! For many of you out there this isn't a big deal but here it is a rare occurrence. Let me just say we took this opportunity to enjoy the snow. It was the first time my little guy has seen snow. It went over big. He loved making snow balls and throwing them. Here are a few pics for you to enjoy. After we played in the snow we went in for a cup of hot chocolate. What a great unexpected evening!

Rock Star

Last night while hanging out with Mommy and Daddy my little guy found a sheet of star stickers. He proceeded to use the whole sheet of stickers. He didn't place them on the furniture, the walls, or even a piece of paper. He put them all over his arms. He then ran around the house telling us he was a "Rock Star!".
He had a really fun night with the stickers, playing hide and seek with us and he even tried on my GW Bush Halloween mask. There is something a little scary about a 3 year old in a giant mask of the President. If you are wondering why I have a GW Halloween mask. A couple of years ago I was a Rose Bush for our Halloween competition which consisted of dressing up like GW covered in roses.