Puhsghetti Face

We decided to give Paige some spaghetti for dinner tonight. She loved it, as she seems to love all foods (except tofu). All was going well until we noticed the rash creeping up her belly. Paige, just like her mommy, has very sensitive skin and apparently the spaghetti run-off was irritating it.

So we took her straight up to the bathtub to scrub off the offending spaghetti.

Spaghetti will probably not be on Paige's menu until she is able to get over 50% of the food she brings towards her face in her mouth. She's not even close yet.

See, they like each other...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqs0NfeGYv0

Baking Brownies

I guess I'll post on our website...since it's snowing....on a Saturday....again.

We rushed out to the grocery store this morning to get enough provisions to survive the storm. Basically we bought the ingredients for shepherds pie (cottage pie, if you are from England) and dog biscuits. The shepherds pie will be our dinner and the dog treats will ensure that Izzy goes outside in the snow and doesn't poop on our floor. She still hates snow (and cold, rain, etc) and must be bribed to do her business where she's supposed to during severe weather. Paige is using this day to show us all the gaps in our baby-proofing. Our baby-proofing is very similar to airport security, we have to keep updating and making changes to fix problems after they occur (instead of anticipating them). I have entertained myself by making homemade cinnamon brownies for our new neighbors. Since I decided to do this project after our morning run to the grocery store, I had to go back out to get some eggs, cocoa, vanilla and confectioners sugar to create the deliciousness. 

To totally change the subject, I would like to discuss the latest hype over the "song" Pants on the Ground. For some reason this "song" really bothers me. I am shamelessly a fan of American Idol, but I really hate it when they do something like allow a 68 year old man to sing some stupid song during the audition show. I have a theory that the "song" was actually written by some American Idol exec to create a hype. Like, seriously, did a 68 year old man that is well out of the age range for the show really wait in line all day to audition? It doesn't bother me enough to make me stop watching Idol, I do love the show, but I don't buy into the whole Pants on the Ground movement. I want to become a non-fan of it on facebook, but they don't do non-fandom yet.

Sherpa Paige

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRLVU5RqJtI

Christmas 2009

Christmas morning was definitely more special this year because...we had a white Christmas! 

No really, obviously our Christmas was truly awesome because of our little Paige. She didn't have a clue that December 25th was different than any other day, but it was fun to show her all the Christmas traditions (stay in your PJ's until wildly awkward at family events, then eat a lot). We started our day around 5:15 am when she first woke up. I convinced her that it was not actually time to get up yet, and she listened and went back to sleep. We then got up for real around 6:15 am. Paige looked at the presents that Santa left for her, but her focus was more on her morning bottle. After we got that out of the way, she was able to really see what she got, but she had this frustrating habit of only wanting the boxes, plastic bags or twisty ties that the actual toy was surrounded in. When we took those away from her, she then went to her old stand-by to play with, power cords. Every toy that we somehow managed to get her to play with was tested for its ability to fit in her mouth before being discarded when she spotted...well, basically anything that we didn't want her to have. Our floor was literally covered in toys, but if there was one little plastic thing that holds tags to clothes somewhere on the floor, she'd find it and that was all she wanted to play with. Mental note for next kid: Give them an empty diaper box for Christmas and it'll make their day.

After checking out Paige's Santa presents, we opened a few things at our house, Paige took her one and only nap of the day (at 9:00 am), then we headed to Andrew's for breakfast. The day-of-eating-too-much started with some waffles, french (freedom) toast, bacon, sausage and fried potatoes. We then headed to Pop's for the true chaos present opening. Paige enjoyed putting discard

ed wrapping paper in her mouth until it made a gross little slobber ball of paper that would get stuck to the roof of her mouth. Then she didn't like it anymore and would cry. We tried to prevent that from happening as much as possible, but she is a fast little booger. Having a baby at Christmas is a really different experience because it prevents the mid-day nap on the couch. Now, it may have been the fact that there were 5 babies and a 3 year old in the house that prevented any naps from being taken on the couch, but I definitely didn't nap on the couch because I had to make sure Paige wasn't getting into things she isn't supposed to, as she is inclined to do. By the time we got home, around 8:30 pm, we were exhausted. We put Paige to bed, then went to bed ourselves. 

All in all an excellent Christmas. I do hope that once we take all these boxes out on trash day that Paige will start playing with some actual toys, but it was fun picking stuff out for her none the less...

Blanket Battle 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYDseEKui2k

Creepy Crawly