Hubby and I braved a snow storm to get down to my parents’ house last weekend. It was snowing pretty hard on the way down. But, we went and dropped the kid off. We were hoping that also meant fewer crowds out and about for our toy shopping. And indeed, it pretty much did! We were able to maneuver around Toy R Us without much company!
After spending a long time there, we finished all the shopping for little one’s we needed to finish! And from there we went and ran a few errands to finish the rest of our Christmas shopping, including a gift for me!
Monday was a fun day. I had another doctor’s appointment, including an ultrasound! And guess what? The baby finally decided to show herself, and yes, it is a girl! I have started having contractions, but the doctor said that it’s still okay. I am not meeting the criteria to make them worry. So, he told me when they start, I am to drink water and get off my feet. Yeah, I will do my best, but that is just not always possible.
Tuesday I took Courtney to My Gym. She is so independent. She runs around there with no fear and wanting to do what she wants to do, which sometimes is against what is going on in the class! But, it’s good to see her learning new things and doing new activities.
I took Thursday off from work. My mom got tickets for Courtney, her and I to see Sesame Street Live, Elmo Makes Music. I hadn’t shared the fact that we were going to see Elmo with her. I let my mom do that once we met her at her work. And it’s a darn good thing I didn’t tell her. Once she found out where we were going, that child was on a mission. She immediately put on her coat and started walking out the door. And she was on a mission until we were in our seats. She kept asking over and over again, where Elmo was. Finally the show came on and she was pretty mesmerized. She was just enthralled until the end.
After the show we went to lunch and Courtney kept informing us that after lunch we were going back to see Elmo. She has talked about it every day since. In fact she mentioned going to see Elmo today, 4 days later.
Thursday night we had a dinner party here at our house. Every year we have a Christmas Party that is just for close friends. This dinner has been held annually for several years now. Our favorite restaurant to have this event at closed. So, in order to keep costs down, we decided to have the party at our house. We had it catered, and that was nice. Everyone pays their share for dinner and we collect donations of kids PJ’s and books for the Pajama Program. It was great to catch up with everyone. One couple that was there recently got engaged, so that was big news to be shared! Since we had the party here, we also hired a babysitter to come and play with Courtney. She also put her to bed, so we could enjoy our dinner party. It was handy!
Friday we also had a babysitter booked so that Hubby and I could go and have dinner with one of my old friends. He ended up cancelling, but we decided to keep the babysitter and have a date night. So, we went to a nice restaurant for dinner. We finished up dinner just about the time Courtney would have been going to bed, so we decided it was probably best to find something else to do instead of going home. But we couldn’t think of anything to do. We ended up making a trip to Best Buy and Target. I think we need to practice our date night skills.
Saturday was a fun day. Our friends’ daughter had her first dance recital. She is 4, but this dance class starts kids at 2. I had never been to a dance recital for kids before. It was incredibly cute! Kinsey did a fantastic job. How on earth did she grow up so fast? It just doesn’t seem like it was almost 5 years ago now that we were visiting her and her parents in the hospital the day she was born! (Kinsey’s the one without the hat)
Kinsey wanted to celebrate her dance recital with pizza and ice cream sundaes afterwards. The recital was right during nap time, so Hubby stayed home with Courtney. They met us over at the Z’s house once we all got back over there. And we chowed on pizza and had incredible ice cream sundaes after dinner. Courtney actually didn’t sleep during her naptime, so we didn’t stay late. She was right at the end of her good behavior as we were leaving, so we left just in time. After a quick bath she was in bed, and out like a light pretty fast.
Today we slept in about an hour. I was planning on taking Courtney to my parents’ house for the day, but she was struggling with listening this morning and lost the privilege to go to Nana and Papa’s house. So, she stayed home with us. Our plan was to wrap gifts and to get the crib out of her room today, and other things. We still got these things accomplished. We didn’t get as much accomplished as we would have liked, but we did get the crib out of her room and I did get all Christmas gifts wrapped.
This afternoon, after Courtney got up from her nap, she and I went to the basement and watched A Muppets' Christmas Carol. It’s my favorite Christmas movie and it always puts me in the Christmas Spirit! Courtney actually sat and snuggled with me for the whole movie.
One of my Christmas gifts arrived Wednesday night. Hubby got me a new BlackBerry Storm. So far I love it. Its touch screen and fun to play with. I still have a lot to learn about it.
Well, it’s late and I still have to get ready for work and school tomorrow! Hope everyone is well.
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