Christmas 2010

Christmas Eve:

New Christmas jammies

Coloring pictures of the manger scene

Christmas Morning:

 Helping each other open presents

Wearing each and every article of princess attire (except the extra tights)

Taking the new finger paints for a spin, preferably with a paint brush though.

Trying on every new color of lip gloss, blush and eye shadow.

Pushing a hot wheel while supervising Thomas and Percy's race around the tracks

Trying to scoop up the dinosaur with the new "loader"

A few of my favorite Christmas quotes:

Stuart: (Imagine the enthusiasm of an era-appropriate teenager seeing Elvis or the Beatles or Michael Jackson.) "NEW CARS!!!!"  (Seriously. Just like that.)

Whitney: "Do we get to keep the Barbies, mom? (concerned face) Do we have to give them back?"

Whitney: "Stuart, come help me open my present!"

Stuart: "Go, Thomas, go! Pump your pistons!"

everyone thinks their kid is a genius...

...but mine really is.
Today in the car, I told Whitney that after one more sleep would be my birthday and we're going to go to see a movie called Tangled about a princess with very long hair.
"Uh, mom, I think its called Rapunzel" says Whitney. Like doi...
Oh, right, sorry.
I never told her that but she's seen plenty of movie trailers. I'm sure they mention her name. So I continued, "And two more sleeps after that will be Christmas!"
"And that is only 3 more sleeps, mom!"
"That's right..." I say, a little incredulously. "1 plus 2 is 3. How did you know that?"
"And I know that 3 plus 3 is 6. And I also know that 5 plus 5 is 10."
What....? So, thinking maybe she's just memorized these numbers from some Sesame Street game, I prod a little further.
"What is 1 plus 3?"
"4. And also 2 plus 2 is 4."

Anyway, I'm pretty sure we sat silently for the rest of the ride while I turned over and over in my mind whether I've ever seen her playing math games on pbskids.org. I came up with nothing. I do recall, though, Whitney and Rob sitting in the living room the other night. I wasn't listening to their conversation. But at some point Rob said to me, "did you hear what she just said? She just told me that 4 and 5 is 9." I was moderately amazed but figured it was just something she'd heard before.
Nope. Turns out my 3 year old is a genius.

Sir Stuart

So, Whitney is going on about 2 weeks now in princess dress. But Stuart's going on about 2 months in his various sunglasses. These are just some of the looks he's sported recently:

Sir Elton

Mickey Mouse meets cat woman

Old Faithful (his favorites)

What a cool dude...

decorating the tree

pretty whitty

I believe Aunt Kristina sent Whitney this princess dress about a year ago.  This picture was taken last December. It was the first and last time the dress would be worn by anyone...

Until now.

(Friday, December 3)

(Saturday, December 4)

(Sunday, December 5)

Today is Tuesday. This is day 6 of All Princess Dress, All the Time. Monday we added pink tights, which she wore all day today as well. They're getting pretty stinky.  But, MAN, she looks cute!