Christmas, Paci's, and Phones

Before I even talk about Chrismtas and all its goodness let me tell you a little story. I declared that the day after Christmas I was cutting the tips off Reese's pacis. I had read about other people doing this. Every few days you cut a little more off and eventually she wouldn't want it at all. Well. That's not how it went for us. I didn't exactly have the support of...well, anybody so she still has the paci. We have limited it to nap/bedtime and car rides.

She had a 15 month check up last week and weighed 19 lb 14 ounces and was 30 inches tall. Dr. C. was not at all on board with taking the paci away. He says we all have pacifiers....playing golf, reading, fishing, hunting etc. I immediately left the office and went to Target for 2 shinny new pacis. I guess we'll worry about it later, but I can guarantee you that she won't go to kindergarten with it. Maybe.

Christmas started with the party at Ms. Liz's. Reese and Addison are daycare BFF.

This wasn't your ordinary daycare party. Oh, no! Santa even came to this party. As the big man got closer Reese started to panic. And because I'm the mother of the year I think it is hilarious how she cries when she sees him so I asked him to get closer to her. Look close and you'll see the panic.

It's all for the pictures people. (I love Addison's face in this one.)

And I love this picture. There was 1 ornament that I would let her take off the tree and play with and at this particular moment she was struggling to get it off.

Thursday before Chrismtas I left Reese at MeeMaw's so I could meet with LaRae. On my way back to get her MeeMaw text me with a diagnoses that Reese had pink eye. Merry Christmas.
We went to the doctor that afternoon and got a more formal diagnosis. He told us that pink eye was contagious for the following 3 days. That just so happened to be the 3 days of all our family Christmas functions.

However, (and I hate to play doctor here) upon further research I have my doubts that was the case. She never rubbed them or acted like they bothered her so we went right on with our holiday plans. 6 events within the next 3 days. This is the best picture I could get of her eyes. The picture doesn't do them justice. And don't you love how she has her arms crossed? That's her latest trick.

She gave love to the pillow pet that Aunt Bec and Big Horn gave her.

I was surprised at how much she liked ripping the paper off the presents. I thought we would have to do it all for her, but we didn't.

Here are some of the babes at Papa's.

And I love this picture because it looks like chaos. Which was exactly how it was.

One of the only family pictures I got and please look at Reese.

All the babies at Papa and Katherine's. Even though some aren't such babies anymore.

At Adam's Granny's Reese was much more concerned about the bag than the gift. She turns everything with a handle into a purse. Do they just come here knowing how to throw a purse over their shoulder?

And then.....

The meltdown began. I can't wait to show her how she acted when she's older.

Then we headed home to wait for the big man.

She only likes to ride the 4-wheeler when we walk beside her and push the button. When she pushes it alone and it takes off it scares her.

She loves her shopping cart though. She puts everything in it and pushes it around.

She also helped us open our gifts.

At Big Daddy and D.D.'s she got a tent that she loves.

And her current favorite is the princess Cozy Coupe. Which she supervised its assembly.

And I'm not going to tell you how long it took 3 grown men to put it together because it would embarass them, but oh my. It took a sweet forever. Then they figured out they had the back wheels on the front.

She then passed out from all the waiting and anticipating.

I readlly wanted a family portrait on Christmas day, but by then she was out. It's the best I could do.

On Monday, as I mentioned, I cut the tips off most of her pacis. She quickly found a replacement in the electrical plug covers.

Monday afternoon we headed over to MeeMaw and PeePaw's (or PawPaw) to open gifts.

How about those jeggins and boots. Love them. Too bad we had to return the boots because they were too small and they didn't have her size:(

I said I didn't get any family pictures. Here is the 3rd one so clearly I was wrong.

Then it started again. See, right here was where I should have pulled out the paci and stuck it in her mouth. But at this point I still had a little life in me and wasn't going to back down.

Chinney said that all the kids and crying cause him to have the nervous stomach and he needed some peace and quiet.

Reese was trying to suck up to MeeMaw and get a paci;)

Then we proceeded to end the night with the one hundred dollar bill game. Here's to hoping this becomes a tradition.

PeePaw set out several envelope. Some had $1, some had IOU on them, but 2 of them had $100 each in them. We picked a card from a stack and who ever had the highest card got to pick first. Guess who that was? Yep, A-master.

Who brilliantly picked an envelope with $1. Guess who was the next highest card? Yep, me. I picked the IOU card which turned out to not be a joke. It has a note in it that I owed him. In the end Brandi was the only one who picked a card with $100. So we played another round. And guess who picked an ace? Me. I let Reese pick the card this time. She must be my lucky charm because there were 2 cards left so I had a 50/50 chance. Merry Chrismtas to me. Too bad I lost my phone the next day and will pobably end up using that money to get another one later.

And we ended the night with a group photo of the babes. Notice mine is the only one acting out.

P.S. You know how I mentioned a few post ago that I was a little off my A game? Did I mention I lost my phone. Well I did. In Target. Laid it down in the shoe department and never saw it again. I am currently using Adam's iPhone 3G phonosaur. (Get it? Phone. Dinosaur. HAHA.) He tried to give me his 4GS or whatever you call it with its handy little personal assistant. But I wouldn't hear any of it because if, on the off chance, I lost it too I would NEVER hear the end of it. So I'll just take my punishment for being irresponsible.

Oh, and last year can anybody in the class remember what happened to me the week after Christmas? Got a speeding ticket, that's right. I hope this bad luck isn't going to become some kind of end of year ritual.

We spend New Year's Eve at Allison and Jared's, but we left before midnight because we are just that fun to be with. Plus we had to get home to take our geriatric meds.