A Sprinkling of Holiday Cheer Before the Big Shebang!

Right now, the house is relatively quiet. Tink is supposed to be napping upstairs, but she is choosing to talk to herself in her crib, yet she is maintaining somewhat-silence. Oxymoron? Tyler and Sassy are grocery shopping for Christmas dinner tomorrow and doing a bit of last minute Christmas shopping (bless their procrastinating little hearts). I am recovering slowly from an unfortunate Christmas-Eve-morning-headache-from-ahem...

I should be resting, but I have way too many thing on my to-do list. One of which is getting caught up on blogging so as not to fall into a deep black whole as picture-taking-frenzy-2010 commences this evening and for the next several days in a row. So, here goes. Just a smattering of recent events, pictures, and sweet pea memories...

Remember my bundled picture? Well, I had a few more that were just too cute to pass up. Here is Bundled, Part Deux. Couldn't you just chew her up like a gummy bear? Well, please don't.



Sassy's blue period... I was going to devote an entire post on this topic. Then I got lazy. Sassy has a new favorite color- blue. Everything has to be blue. Her bedroom walls are blue. She has to have the blue cup and the blue plate each meal. She wants blue clothes and blue jewelry and blue shoes and blue hair pretties. Blue, blue, blue. Here is one example- she chose an entirely blue Christmas tree for her bedroom this year.



Last weekend, a group of us got together for Lynzee's birthday and went to Sumo for hibachi. Yum! We also did a little secret Santa gift swap, which is always a blast! My friend Renee drew my name, and she quite possibly came up with the perfect gift: a box of Tazo refresh tea, a fun & funky swirl felt necklace from Sypria, and a gift certificate from The Vintage Pearl. Thanks, Renee!



Sassy was in a mood the other day, and insisted that we took some pictures out front before preschool. She's my little sweet pea...



...so weird...



...Crazy/Beautiful.



Our Parents As Teachers group held a little holiday party earlier in the week. One of our devoted members, Robyn, made some of the most beautiful.cookies.EVER. SO generous!



I was running around like a crazy person trying to help everyone out, but I did manage to take a picture of Tink visiting Santa. Sassy wanted nothing to do with him this time!



Oh, and those cozies?? Yeah, we knocked a few out. A few zillion remain unfinished. We'll get there... one of these days...



Hmm... what else?

Mommy group kids' holiday book exchange. Location: the bane of my existence Chuck E. Cheese. The girls had a blast. LOVE their new books, too!





Parents As Teachers December My Gym play group. ♥. Nothing better than letting them burn a little steam at the end of the day...



Meetup gingerbread building party plus story time with moi...



Oh, and just a little preview of Sassy's Christmas Eve hair from our trial run...



With that, I must return to real life... with a sense of accomplishment, nonetheless.

Have a beautiful holiday with your family and friends. Much love from the SPH...