Apple has finally made it to the table. We used the clip on chair for J and he loved it so, here we go again. I was getting tired of her yelling at me every time I sat down to eat. And even though Hubby saw it as his duty to hold her, I don’t exactly enjoy watching my daughter catch all the crumbs on her head. She is loving it! Even after three meals and some painting today, she is happy as a clam sitting with us at the table. Of course she thinks that food will be coming her way, but she still has to wait at least another month.
I was trying an impromptu photo session with the kids and although J was mostly cooperating, Apple wasn’t entirely into it. I did get a few great shots, but also a lot of J watching TV over my shoulder or Apple yelling again. These two are my favourites. You can just see the love coming from J. He was talking about our trip to Montreal last November and when describing the weekend he said, “Remember, when I didn’t like Apple?” I said, “No, I didn’t know you didn’t like Apple.” To which he replied, “But, I Love her now, so it’s Ok.” I guess it’s Ok, but in all fairness she was trouble in the car, so he is forgiven for not exactly Loving her to pieces every day. The most important thing is that he Loves her so much now. As you can tell in the next photo too. Not exactly Apple’s best shot, but my favourite of J.
Thanks to everyone for the comments on the new site. I am still getting used to it and should be able to comment back to you in your comment soon. I also owe you a Christmas craftiness post and I haven’t forgotten, but I have been so busy to pull it all together.
J’s fever led to a tummy bug that has hit us from one end or the other for the last three days. Not pretty. So, for now I leave you with a photo. My youngest Sister is in this photo, top left corner, second row (holding a child). There is also someone famous in this photo… can you spot him??
Hint: He is the Manager of the band that my Sister just had to stay in Charlotte for before Christmas. They are Paper Tongues. As I still live vicariously through her, I am insanely jealous as she is in Los Angeles today. She just hopped on a plane and headed West so she could see the band play. Oh how fun it would be to be 23 again.
A Belated Very Merry Christmas to all my readers. The holidays have been very hectic here chez Beachmama, but I assure you the New Year will bring us back to our regularly scheduled programming. In addition to getting back to posting I look forward to the long awaited release of my new site. It is this close (see finger pinching) to launch I was just too busy to finish up the last few things I have to do before going live.
Santa was a huge hit here. He ate all the cookies, took the carrots for the reindeer and left a lovely letter for J who listened intently when it was read to him. He had a few questions like, “the elves didn’t make the Lego did they, they just bought them at the store?” My quick response was that toy factories had elves working there to help Santa out.
Having Opa here with us was wonderful. We don’t get the opportunity often enough to share holidays with him, so it was truly a wonderful Christmas morning.
Onward to the evening. I just had to share some of my favourites from the evening of my first ever Christmas dinner. I decided last minute to let everyone serve themselves as I did not leave room on the table for the dishes and the meat platter alone is 10lbs. Although making the dinner was a tad stressful due to a long breakfast in the morning, I will definitely offer again next year as the lack of stress on my Mom’s face was worth it. The line up for food warmed my heart as there was no shortage in willing eaters here.
Here is a photo of my Sister’s and my Mom. The two on the right (black and red dresses) are the ones in Regina and Charlotte, the one beside me lives here. Can you tell we are Sisters??
Here is my Christmas table, which I had to make longer with an additional table and the way our family is growing I will want to invest in a larger table at some point. This one is my Grandmother’s from many moons ago. It folds up into a little side table if your space is small. Which was my dilema until we moved here. I do pull out the good china, I love using it and decorating the table. Opa and Dad are chatting it up down at the head of the table. They get along so well and we are very pleased about that as it makes holidays together much easier.
And last of all little Apple. She did very well all through dinner swinging away in her Retro swing and fancy party dress. Even when it was time to go to bed she would hear Opa playing with her two littlest cousins and her eyes would pop open, but she was truly tired and finally gave up the ghost and fell asleep and went right on through until 2:30am, almost six hours two nights in a row, it was awesome for me.
I hope to post a little this week but fear that the chaos will still reign in BeachMama’s house. I may just have to request a little alone time with me and my computer. Another week to go with a full house, could be a little tricky.
Thank you all for stopping by my little place by the beach. I have really enjoyed getting to know a few new readers this year and I am thankful for all of you that stop and leave notes to me. You all have truly helped to keep me sane this past year waiting for Apple to arrive and getting through the first little bit of school.
I look forward to what lays ahead in 2008!
