So Sorry....

Moira and I waiting for our horse drawn carriage that rode around uptown westerville and our house during the Holiday midnight madness.

Franklin Park Conservatory Holiday lights night

They have really fancy Gingerbread competetion.

We made a gingerbread house. She is in her bathing suit b/c we were pretending like we were in Florida.

Moira on our "Girls Day"

Me and Moi on Girl's day!

I love this pic. So artsy and beautiful!

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Life has just been crazy lately! As usual I guess.

Where to begin. I am so behind. Let me just do a little random stream of consciousness. That's the best I am going to be able to do I am afraid.

Last night we went to see the Fantasy of Lights at Alum Creek. It's $10 a car, which is kind of high, but the lights are just spectacular. 1/2 way through, you can get out and see santa and have some cookies and hot chocolate. Never before has Moira actually wanted to get near Santa. High five 2 years ago was the best we've ever done. I didn't figure she would want to see him, espcially b/c he was in this little room and it was just him, actually kind of creepy if you are a kid. But, I put Grady on his lap and she hopped on the other side. Grady totally freaked out. It was kind of funny. The lady taking the pictures didn't even want to show me the pictures, she just said "you won't like this". Although I would have, for posterity, but didn't have time to argue, I was too curious to see what Moira would do. She sat on his lap and said "Grady would like some new Mams (his pacifier, she decided beforehand that's what he would like. She is right.). I would like a new Videa dress (she saw this at big lots, I already got it for her, it's the mean fairy from tinkerbell, she likes this b/c it's blue, her new favorite color b/c it's Grandma's favorite color), a pupet theater and a cat." She saw the pupet theater and the cat at meijer. Not a real cat, this "furreal" cat that cousin Maren got last year. I ordered them online today b/c I wasn't sure when I could get there w/o her and didn't want to be looking last minute. Although the pupet theater she saw was blue and they didn't have that one online, only a purple one so I am hoping she doesn't throw a big fit. Anyway, a very successful trip to see Santa!

Grady is into everything. He eats everything. Things I can't even babyproof for, like curtains, sides of chair legs, the couch. Oh, and he's learned how to get outlet covers off and stick his fingers in them. He also bites people. He bit Moi really hard today. Poor girl didn't even see it coming. I tell him "no" but he's only 9 months. I swear I think he's talking. He looks at me and says "mom" (even Moira said "he's calling you mom and not mommy")and Chris and says "da da". Also "hi" and "ought oh". I could be wrong, not 100% sure. He is also standing up very well and stood by himself today not holding onto anything for like 30 seconds. Moi took her first steps at 9 1/2 months, but she also crawled earlier so we'll see. Oh and he's learned how to climb the stairs!

Moi decided she wants her name to be "Colonica". Grady should be "Tex" and I am "mommy Megan", Chris is "chrysaliss". ???? She changes her name a lot though. Today she was "Sally"

During the fantasy of lights, Grady was really fussy. He stopped Crying and I turned around and Moi was holding his hand. She said "I am holding his little tiny hand and he is smiling at me. I love him". So sweet! Also he got up from his nap and I sent her upstairs b/c I was in the middle of something in the kitchen and I heard her on the monitor going "It's okay Grades, nofing is wrong, it's okay". I went up there and she was laying in the crib with him holding his hand.

Funny Moi story. We were listing to this song and it goes "the more we get together the happier we'll be, cause your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends, the more we get together the happier we'll be". She said "mommy, that lady said she was going to take my friends". I tried to just explain what it meant, how if you share, you'll have twice as many and she said "Well, she can't have Allie or Daniela!". Then the next day we were listening to it and she said "That lady thinks she can take my friends, but my friends can't get into the tv (it was a lady from the Noggin Channel singing). ha ha ha!" Like, ah-ha, I got her!

Moi and I had an awesoem girls day a few weeks ago. It was our best day together ever I would say. She overheard me and Chris talking about how I was meeting a friend for a movie that night. She asked if she could go. It was the OSU/Michigan game day, so I got the idea to leave Chris and Grady at home to watch the game and nap and Moira and I had a girls day. She needed a haircut, so we did that. Then we went to the mall to get her glasses adjusted. I bought her a pink tutu, b/c you know, it was girls day, and then we played at the play area and did some shopping. AFter that we went to the dollar movie theater and saw ice age 2. She sat through about half of it. Then we went to the park on the way home where Chris and Grady met us. Chris surprised me by cleaning the whole house and he picked up dinner. Then I got to have a "date" with a girlfriend to see the New Moon movie.

Both kids have been really sick with bad colds this week. Moi finally seems mostly better, I sent her to school today. But it's been a looooong week. Speaking of school, Moi got an evaluation sheet last month. She got check marks for meeting or exceeding every category and the comment that they had was "Moira is a sweet little girl and has become quite the leader with the other children". That's my girl!

Grady is a daddy's boy. It is so nice, yet a little weird to me b/c Moi was soooo not like that and Chris doesn't get to see Grady that much. We went to the Franklin Park Conservatory the other night for the candlelight night (which was very very nice) and Chris met us there. Grady reached for him and he let Chris hold him for 20 minutes. I tried to take him and he didnt' want me! So weird! Then the same thing this morning. He loves his daddy. Chirs is already trying to figure out how quickly they can go to NASCAR races together!