All I Want for Christmas is Some Therapy

We took Kaiya to see Santa today. We have been talking about Santa for a while, and Kaiya gets very excited whenever she sees any Santa decorations, she can even complete most of the lines from "The Night Before Christmas"* So when we got to Santa's workshop today to have our pictures taken Kaiya was excited, and pointed at him and said "Santa!" but then Daddy did a very mean thing! He put Kaiya on Santa's lap & WALKED 2 FEET AWAY!!!! Well that was just too much! So here is our official Christmas picture for 2008:


Good picture, isn't it? Well, I can't say she doesn't come by it honestly...
This is one of my mom's favorite pictures, that's me when I was 16 months old. So Kaiya should be okay, right? I mean I didn't need too much therapy...


*technically the title of the poem is "A Visit From Saint Nick"; there, are you happy now Jamie?

Kaiya's New Trick

So on Thursday I was running around like a chicken with her head cut off trying to tie up loose ends for the Progressive Dinner at church. I was running things out to the car, you know, the regular stuff: food, napkins, oven racks, etc...

Well, I had a big box of stuff in my hands, walked out the front door, shut it behind me and put the stuff in the car. When I got back to the front door, and turned the handle...you guessed it, the door was locked. The luckiest thing that happened to me all day was that I had my keys in my pocket; but I am totally doubting my sanity as I unlock the door. Did I really lock the door behind me without realizing it? It's a deadbolt, so you can only lock it from the outside with a key, and I couldn't have done that with all that stuff in my hands...hmm...well, I unlock the door and walk inside and Kaiya is waiting right there and she says just as proud as she could be "Mommy! I lock the door!"

Needless to say I went out the next day and purchased some childproofing supplies for the front door...

Guilt Post

I know I should be blogging about our trip to Florida, but I am way too tired, so here are some pictures from right before we left that I didn't get a chance to post...

Kaiya lookin' fly in a fitted cap Buddy brought back for her from a trip (from Japan? I can't remember)

Kaiya eating her first ice cream cone all by herself (well, technically frozen yogurt)



Yumm!!!!

Please forgive me...I will post Florida as soon as I can!

A Little Rant & 18 Month Pictures

I don't consider myself a spelling Nazi. If you have a word misspelled in your blog, I probably didn't even notice, and if I did, I don't really care! I mean spell check misses stuff all the time, and I am a terrible speller myself. However, I expect a little more from businesses. I mean, if you want me to spend money at your establishment, please make sure your advertising and especially your name is spelled correctly.

I have a personal policy not to patronize businesses that spell their names wrong. For instance you generally won't find me in a "Kwik Kar", "Lidz" or "Kountry Kitchen". If at all possible, you will also rarely find me in any kind of "shoppe" or "centre" because we don't live in Ye Old England.

Before today, my only exceptions to the misspelling rule were 1) Toys "R" Us/Babies "R" Us, because they recognize the misspelling with the quotation marks, and 2)"Quik Trip" which I forgive because they go by QT and because they are sooooooooooo clean & have the best tasting Diet Coke & Caffeine Free Diet Coke on tap (I heart QT).

Well today I violated my no misspelling policy, by having Kaiya's pictures taken at Kiddie Kandids. I can hardly type it without cringing (or should I say kringing). But they came highly reccomended, and I didn't feel like hauling my cookies all the way to Picture People, where I usually go.

I admit, I was a little ashamed to go, and I had some serious concerns when they made me make an appointment, then made me wait when I got there too...another personal pet peeve of mine (seriously, pick one or the other, either drop in and wait or make an appointment and no waiting). But the lady who took the pictures was good, and the set-up was so much better than at Picture People, because the kids stand on an elevated platform, and the camera is on a moving pole; so the photographer has her hands free to pose Kaiya. At the other place the photographer has to lie on the floor so she can get the right angle and have me pose her.

So before I start sounding like an angry housewife, I will show the proof, the pictures, or should I say "pikturez"...