Hope everyone is having a great December! We continue to stay in Christmas mode and partake in festive activities when possible. We have added additional lights to the house since the last blog, all thanks to Lolly and her amazing deal finds. We are now officially owners of Star Shower lights. I have an internal battle with myself debating if these things are tacky or clever. It's basically a spot light that shines colored dots on your house. I once called this a lazy way to decorate ones house for the holidays. But now that I am a homeowner with small children, my tone has changed. These things are great and only take two seconds to plug in. And Hudson LOVES them! He has to plug in all the lights every night. Then he has to walk out in the yard and assess the situation to make sure they are working properly.
Santa also visited daycare this week. Hudson was timid at first, but once he warmed up he had a long wish list to pass along. He asked for a farm with four horses. "Two girls horseys and two boy horseys. And I need a pig, a cow and a chicken." And he wanted everything life size and real, no fake plastic stuff. It was cute. Sure hope he's not heartbroken when his farm gets delivered in miniature-size proportions on Christmas day. Adley, on the other hand, was not a fan of the big guy in the red suit. She screamed even before she was forced upon his lap. And then it took her a couple minutes to recuperate afterwards. Again, hilarious.
Hudson planted his first holiday amaryllis flower. Only 6 weeks for this baby to bloom into a pretty red plant. This will be a great lesson in patience for my preschooler.
Chris and Hudson joined the rest of the crew at the Woodlands Lights, where you get to walk through the park and see thousands of holiday lights. Adley and I stayed back home. I was still recovering from my month-long cough and cold and the princess was fast asleep by 7 pm. Adley still rocks a 12-hour sleep schedule!
The crew got to meet Santa again...
Hudson still wants to rock his holiday pjs. Almost every night, he requests his "Damien pjs" or his new "Itsy pjs." Itsy is cousin Anderson's elf-on-a-shelf and since we get tons of hand-me-downs, any holiday pj of a Bockelman child is called an "Itsy pj." Our elves love to deliver pajamas!
Our little girl continues to be on the move and get into everything these days. She loves to explore and pull things out of bins and baskets, aka, making a disastrous mess in every room in the house. If she's not reading a book, she is searching for necklaces or any long dangly object she can drape around her neck. I'm excited for our future dress-up days. She is also rough and tough like her bro. When the boys or cousins are wrestling, she will jump on in and fling herself across a body. She wants to be swung around by her legs and she is always instigating a "play-fight" with Hudson. He gladly obliges. The kids were recently playing in the bath tub and things got carried away. Adley tried to get out of the tub, slipped and hit her tooth on the side...thus resulting in a chipped front tooth. I didn't even notice what happened until daycare called the next day apologizing because they thought it happened at school. Come to find out, Chris had noticed her tooth earlier that morning, but failed to convey the message to me. So after we put the pieces together, it all made sense. Poor girl!
I made a dental appointment first thing the next day. I blamed it on needing to check her tooth canal and confirm there was no nerve damage, but really I wanted to know if they could cap her tooth when she's a bit older. Call me superficial, but kids are vicious these days. She can't go six more years with a chipped front tooth! So thankfully, we will only have a wide-gap baby smile for a few more months.
Chris is headed to Chicago next week for work so I go back to single-parenting. I've been spoiled since he hasn't traveled in quite some time, so things should get interesting now that we have two busy kids on the move. Stay warm everyone!
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