Oh POOP!

Come to find out Lincoln has an ear infection...again.  Poor guy.  I was hoping that he would be able to take the same pink stuff he took last time.  Man, he loved that stuff.  But sadly he has to take something a little less tastey.

Anyway, This morning I walked into the family room where Lincoln was playing and Payton was watching Dora and got hit with a very pungent poo aroma.  I look at Payton..."Did you poop your pants"  She shook her head no and said, "It's Lincoln."  As I turn around poo is coming up out of the back of his diaper.  "No!" I pick him very quickly under the armpits, hold him at arms length, and run as fast as I can to the changing pad.  it was at least a 10 wipe diaper.  I managed to save the pants but lost the shirt.  Poor guy.

Payton locked Rumba in the hutch.

So I was sitting in the family room and I heard a scratching sound.  Actually it kind of sounded like the cats playing with something on the floor.  I thought to myself, one of them probably found a ribbon or something and is flinging it around the kitchen and didn't think any more about it.

A little while later I hear a muffled meow.  I thought, "Did one of the cats get themselves shut in the closet again."  Then.  Stop.  The meow is coming from the hutch.  I look at Payton and say, "Did you lock Rumba in the Hutch?" To which she replied, "Yes. Yes, I did."  So matter of factly.

Laughing and shacking my head I go over to the hutch and let Rumba out.  She not only shut him in but turned the wood piece and locked him in.  Luckily he wasn't in there for very long...I think.

Christmas Shopping

I am having so much fun shopping for Christmas this year!  Maybe I should specifiy, I am having so much fun shopping for Payton and Lincoln for Christmas this year.

I am so excited for Christmas, I can't wait to see their faces when they come into the family room.  I wonder if my parents ever felt this way.  I remember every Christmas we would get my parents up insanely early, dad would go down stairs first and set up the video camera while saying, "But he didn't come.  Santa didn't come."  Jennifer and I would be hiding around some corner giggling.

Unfortunately, for me one of the hardest people to shop for is Dave.  Why is that? 

Hobbs

 Dave had the day after Thanksgiving off and this is the week that our garbage collectors will take shrubbery that you leave on the street so Dave decided to do some major pruning to the trees in our side yard.

His younger brother Steven brought over the chain saw and they got to work. 

Payton had a blast watching.  She wanted to be outside but it was just to dangerous, the branches coming down were huge.  At one point she said, "I don't want daddy to fall.  I will catch him."  That is when she put her hand out to "catch" him.  It was so cute.

Meet Hobbs.  He was the biggest branch that was cut down.  Dave said that one branch was equivalent to three times what they had already cut down.  He is a bit of an exaggerator.  :)  Even thought Dave got a little chop happy on one of the trees, they look a ton better.

We had one scary point in the day.  I had taken Payton out to watch several times.  Well, we were in the house and I had to go to the bathroom.  While in the restroom I heard the door to the garage open and I yelled to Payton to stay inside and close the door.  Then I heard the door shut and then silence.  I am trying to get dressed as fast as I can calling for Payton at the same time.  When I got out of the bathroom she was not in the house.  I ran out the door and into the garage, she wasn't there.  I ran out to the driveway yelling her name and she is not there either.  I turn to go to where Dave and Steven were working and I didn't see her at first because my eyes went to the two stray dogs in our front yard (a golden retriever and a mutt of some sort) and she was on the other side of them getting ready to step into the street.  I yell "STOP!" and it seems the only things listening to me were the dogs because out she went into the street. I run as fast as I can to her, grab her arm and yank her off the street.  Yikes!  I am so glad the car driving by was going slow because of all the branches.  The whole way back to the house I yelled while having a tight grip on her arm, "Don't ever go outside without mommy or daddy!", "Don't ever go out into the street without mommy and daddy!"  I was so scared.  I couldn't stop yelling.  It took a while for my heart to stop racing.  When we got inside I took a couple of deep breaths, gave her a big hug, told her how much I loved her, and told her that I was sorry for yelling but that she scared me. 

I do hope that she doesn't ever do that again.

Tangled 3-D

I was so excited when I saw the previews for Tangled coming out.  I immedeately started talking it up to Payton trying to get her super excited to see it.  So I totally jumped at the opportunity to go when my parents invited us to go.

Somehow I missed the fact that it was in 3-D... In the past it seems that there was always a 2-D version of the movie playing too.  However, in Gilroy there was only the 3-D version. 

I had no idea how this was going to go.  Payton did pretty well, she wore the glasses for about a third of the movie and then didn't want to wear them any more.  Lincoln wore them for the first two previews.  LOL 

Overall we all really enjoyed the movie.