Castle Chronicles

"i do it." snow

another busy weekend down.  j played games with college boys from church 'til 2am friday night/ saturday morning.  m & c had a girl's night: we watched peter pan, cut our nails, and cut c's bangs. before on saturday, we attended a 3 year old friend's princess/mermaid ariel themed birthday party.  there were 10 girls and one boy all under the age of 5 at this "party."  we survived, went home for tylenol and a quick nap before dressing up to go to the zoo.  starring luna lovegood, hedwig potter, and professor severus snape.  the weather was so warm that we didn't make c wear her owl coat and hat for too long, but she sported her gryffindor shirt most of the night.  both outfits were a hit.  c enjoyed getting candy in her bucket and running around the zoo.  she did not enjoy the company of some of the costumed people.  the subway sandwich guy, the cartoonish armadillo man, and the skunk dude were all very frightening....

c spent the last week chatting.  she's now easily stringing together 3-5 word phrases to try to get her thoughts across.  "baby sits papa's lap."  "baby sits car.  mama too."  "baby up cheesehouse too."  (yes, she still refers to the tree house as the cheesehouse and herself as baby.  "mommy sleeps too.  papa sleeps too."  "i want...."  "no, i do it!" we had a busy weekend, followed by a busy week.  we spent most of saturday with friends while our car was getting fixed.  we then had friends over saturday evening for a game night (this activity was planned before we knew the car needed fixed).  sunday evening, j decided to cut the tail off a fox and try to preserve it.  j ended up sick sunday night and monday (we don't think it was the fox --- we do think it was the sick friends we hung out with on saturday). m worked late tues, wed, and thurs.  apparently packing a cart full of eric carle painting suppli...

a special thanks goes out to auntie christy for putting up with a 20 minute one-sided conversation with little c.  c has just recently decided to be quite chatty on the phone.  she wanders around the whole house carrying on a very important conversation that no one but she can understand.  the catch: someone actually has to be "talking" to her on the other end.  we find it very humorous, and we hope our families will too 'cause this mode of entertainment is promising to be a bit of an obsession.  (i think we're in trouble or headed for a second phone line when c gets older:) c also recently got very excited about boots.  after a week of convincing c she didn't need to wear winter boots until it snowed, m shelled out $1 at the munchkin market for a pair of new used "fashion" boots.  c was ecstatic!  c has been chillin' in the treehouse (or as she calls it: the cheesehouse).  she loves to climb up the ladder, play in the hammock, open ...