Thank you, Claire's

Q: How much make-up can you get for $9 at Claire's?

A: Apparently $40 worth. Leighton is all made up and ready to go.
She even put on eyeliner. In the middle of her attempt, she says 'I just can't get the hang of this eyeliner.' Ya think? Maybe because you are SIX?!?
She is in true heaven.

It's a Pillow, It's a Pet

It's a Pillow Pet!

Carly had requested a unicorn Pillow Pet from Santa. She has been asking for a Pillow Pet since the first time she saw the infomercial. The type of pet changes but never the request for the Pillow Pet.

When she came downstairs Christmas morning, she saw the Pillow Pets and scanned them quickly for hers. She picked up her penguin, looked at me and said, "I'll get over it." I nearly started to cry. The first thing out of my child's mouth on Christmas morning is "I'll get over it."?!?!

I excused myself to consult Santa. Santa insisted that he didn't know she cared so much and promised to look in his workshop as soon as he got back to the North Pole. He would have the elves make the correct one and bring it back. I didn't tell her, in case the elves had all left for the season and there were no unicorns to be found.

Carly continued to open her presents. She seemed to forget about the penguin until bedtime. Then she said again, 'I'll get over it.' She was killing me!

MY CHRISTMAS IS RUINED!!!!

(family joke)

Santa got back to the North Pole realized his mistake and made a special trip back to leave it under the tree. He left Carly a note of apology. She was so excited and the unicorn Pillow Pet holds a special place on her dresser. I haven't seen the penguin since.

She did it Herself

After all the drama with the two previous teeth. It was very surprising, and pleasant to have Leighton walk up to me with her tooth in her hand. She just pulled it out herself. She was very proud and very toothless.

Too bad the Tooth Fairy couldn't get out in all the snow, or maybe she forgot. Anyway, Leighton had to put her tooth back under her pillow a second night and that did the trick.

Real SNOW

On Christmas night it snowed nearly 8 inches.

That is real snow and we decided to go out and play in it the next day.

Jensyn, like a true southerner, immediately tried to drive in the stuff.And didn't bother to clean off her car before she left. Dee taught the girls how to have a real snowball fight.

Jensyn thought we were playing fetch and kept bringing them back to him.

Leighton would gather them up and try to throw them back.

Dee helped them make a real snowman.

Which promptly melted and fell over 15 minutes after we went inside.

Zhu Zhu Pets

Jensyn really liked the Zhu Zhu pets that they got for Christmas. She would send them off around the house and then go collect them all.

It snowed on Christmas and I had let the cat out and made her stay out for a while. When she came in she shook off the snow onto the carpet, making the carpet wet.

Jensyn came downstairs and started up all the Zhu Zhu pets. She was gathering them up and couldn't find one. It got stuck by the back door. She ran over to get it and as she picked it up her hand touched the wet carpet. She brought the Zhu Zhu pet over to me saying, 'Oh No, it peed!"

I guess she has heard the girls blame her for every wet spot in the house and thought she could share the blame with someone new.

Christmas

The stockings were hung by the chimney. The tree was up and decorated.

The carrots for the reindeer, cookies and milk for Santa were all laid out. Scratch that, sorry Santa, no milk. I was up before the kids and saw that Santa had left Pillow Pets, but unfortunately he didn't take the pet on the pillow. Leighton got the Baby Alive she wanted.

And the Legos. But no Go Go my walking pup. Santa left her a note on the tree. It said that he thought that her dog, Gus, would prefer her to play with him. She seemed satisfied with that.

Carly got her Wii Fit Plus.

And her Winter Games.

And Jensyn got her Little People.

Santa also brought them a new t.v. for upstairs. He must have felt bad for them. They have been watching a 20 year old tiny t.v.

Both sets of Grandparents gave Zhu Zhu pets along with many other things.

My favorite game that Carly got was a tie between Michael Jackson's Experience (I know you recognize the glove) or Disney's Sing It Pop Star (the microphone). We could be entertained for hours.

And Aunt Coree sent the girls some gloves and socks. They weren't sure which these were. I helped them figure it out. I think Leighton was a little disappointed. She was really hoping for some evening gloves.

This baby had a wonderful day, but crawled up into my bed and went to sleep long before bedtime.

My favorite, most wonderful, exciting, fun, fancy, amazing, cool, neat, etc. present?

My parents bought me a Silhouette SD cutter. I am so in love with this thing. I have so many ideas bouncing around in my head. Too bad Michael's isn't open on Christmas. Stay tuned for some projects I have in mind.

'Cause My Grandpa likes to be Crazy

The girls got to shop at their school's Santa Shop for their families. They were so excited to give their carefully picked out presents to their recipients.

Leighton gave Grandma a fancy necklace, because she likes to get dressed up and be fancy. She was so excited for Grandpa to open his.It was the first thing she picked out. (I have spies EVERYWHERE!)

She picked this crazy hat, because 'Grandpa likes to be crazy.'

It even lights up!

Carly was a little more conservative in her picks. She bought Grandpa a candle holder

You put wax melts in the top and a tea light in the bottom.

She bought Grandma these cute polar bear plates.

Grandma loved them.

Jensyn was very upset that she didn't have anything to give to them. She kept saying

'What me give? Where my presents? What me give? Where my presents?'

Then she walked around with a pout similar to this.

Gingerbread Houses

I saw a gingerbread village of five houses for $9.00. I picked one up so each girl could have a house to decorate. Leighton did more eating than decorating.Jensyn focused on her roof.She added pixie stick snow to top it off.Leighton used lots of snow (frosting). Hers had a lot more candy on it, but as the day progressed it got barer and barer. Hmmm I wonder how that happened.Carly was very particular as usual. I think I wrecked this kid completely when she was little and I made her put everything back EXACTLY where it went.Before they got out for Christmas break, Leighton's class made gingerbread houses and Miss Potts asked me to come in and help.Leighton did her normal-use your clothes as a rag-technique.This time I think she took it to the extreme!

Christmas Lights

We went on our annual Lights without the Duds, I mean Dads. We headed down to Meadow for the first stop. This is a picture of most of our crowd. We start at the carousel.This was Jensyn's first year at the lights. She loved every minute of it.Off the carousel andonto the train. Leighton got to sit next to Jordan, she was very happy.After the train ride we headed to Lake Myra and saw the dancing lights. They even had hot cocoa and a fire to warm yourself. Santa wasn't there, but we took the opportunity to use his sleigh for some pictures.

The gang, again.

In case you are wondering... Yes, Jensyn is treated like the personal doll of all my friends' kids. They love to lug her around and do everything for her. They fight over who is going to sit by her and who is going to hold her. Most of the time she enjoys the attention.