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Highlights from December:
- Hubby and I celebrated our 10th anniversary!
- Favorite Christmas songs this year included Toby Mac's "Christmas This Year," Sixpence None the Richer's "Silent Night," Becky Kelley's "Where's the Line to See Jesus" and Go Fish's "It's About the Cross." Gayla Peevey's "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" and Lou Monte's "Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey" continue to be classic favorites of mine.
- We saw unusual snow falling at the very beginning of December!
- Little Man enjoyed playing hide-and-seek with the dog helping him as a seeker.
- Was surprised by my father-in-law with tickets to see Garth Brooks in Nashville! He performed NINE concerts within 6 days!
- Little Man celebrated his 5th birthday! He chose Scooby Doo as his theme and had a large cookie instead of a cake. We had a small party of a few friends and family members at our house.
- Little Man was infatuated with playing tic-tac-toe...and he could truly win.
- Another first: Saw the Predators play hockey in Nashville. Go Preds!
- Little Man really enjoyed tracking Santa on NORAD for the first time.
- Little Man left cookies and carrots for Santa on Christmas Eve.
- It SNOWED on Christmas Eve in Middle TN!!!
- Little Man's favorite Christmas gift was a Talking Clever Clock from Santa. He learned very quickly how to tell time after that.
- We redecorated Little Man's room. Changed from a Blue Jean Teddy theme to a Fireman theme.
- We attended the Music City Bowl in Nashville and watched the Vols lose in a horrific (for football) ending. College football rules were changed as a result.
Here are some pictures from Christmas and his new room:
Highlights from November:
- Little Man'ism... While driving down the road this morning, Little Man saw a flock of birds flying in the air. He announced to me that they're having a baby. When I asked him how he knew, he responded, "Because they're flying in the shape of an egg and that's how they tell everyone they're having a baby!"
- Little Man asked what falling in love means. I didn't have time to explain before he was distracted and off playing again.
- Little Man had a stomach bug at the beginning of the month.
- Opryland Hotel re-opened after rebuilding from the Flood of 2010.
- Took Little Man to see VeggieTales LIVE in town.
- Noticed Little Man was a little "off" at the VeggieTales concert. Turned out he was getting sick with a throat infection (not strep), which lasted for about 2 days. Symptoms were a high fever (over 103), headache and muscle aches.
- A freak accident at church occurred: a light bulb busted and fell from the socket, landed on the pew in front of us on the balcony, bounced between two girls and over the railing, fell down to the lower level where it landed on a girl's head causing her to need stitches.
- After nearly 10 years of marriage, we hosted our first ever Thanksgiving at our house! In attendance: Shad, Little Man and myself as well as Shad's dad, my mom and my sister.
- Another first: I spent a total of 2-1/2 hours standing in line at Toys 'R Us at midnight on Thanksgiving Night to buy a Christmas gift for Little Man....~1-1/2 hours was spent outside in the rain and near freezing temperatures...another hour was spent standing in the checkout line, which snaked through to the back of the store! It saved me about $70, though, so well worth it!
Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving:
So, it's been 10 months since my last post. I could give you plenty of excuses, but, truth is, I just flat-out slacked off. I will say, though, that Facebook is a VERY guilty party. On the plus side...Facebook has also allowed me to go back and "remember" these highlights. With that said, I will do a multiple-part update going back to after our cruise:
October 2010 - After the Cruise
- We bought a new dryer after it went out on us a few days before our cruise. We had our fill of line-drying between dryers!
- Little Man's favorite word during this time was "Ominous." It came from the PBS Kids website.
- For Halloween, Little Man was a superhero and called himself, "Captain C". We carved a snarling wolf into a pumpkin, went to the pumpkin patch a couple of times, participated in a costume contest at The Discovery Center in which Janet from PBS's Janet's Planet was a judge, WON the costume contest for his age division and found out he was afraid of heights at our church's Fall Festival while on the Moon Bounce.
Here are a few Halloween pics:
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