Sunday, December 11, 2011

Dear Santa

Yesterday out of the clear blue Kennick decided he wanted to write a letter to Santa.  He said..."I want 3 iPad's please".  Not sure where he  got that from but that's what went on the list...


Kennick and Mommy writing the letter to Santa.


Kennick telling Santa that he wants 3 iPads please.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Pacie Fairy

I know I am EXTREMELY behind on the updates.  I have lots of posts from football games, visitors from Iowa and Kennick's birthday which hope to be coming soon...but this is tonight...

The past couple weeks we have been talking about the pacie fairy that will be coming on Kennick's third birthday.  The fairy will come and take his pacies and give them to babies who will be needing them.  We gave him the option that he could either get money or a present when the fairy came.  He choose money!  

Last night was Kennick's birthday.  He had a party at Montessori (posting soon) and got to open some presents at the house.  As bedtime grew near he was getting very tired because he hadn't had a nap all day. We put all the pacies under his pillow and started getting ready for bed.  Somehow he managed to sneak one and was asleep in the bed before we even got into the bedroom.  Not a great start on our part...

We both had the day off today and I was excited to be able to sleep in a little but to my surprise Kennick was up at 6:30 and talking about the pacie fairy.  He quick ran to his room and put it under the pillow.  Ends up the pacie fairy is charging 17 quarters (inflation from my childhood) these days.  He was supper excited to put the money in his Mickey jar which when filled means we are heading to Disney.

First test:  Nap.

Today was Christmas decorating!!  Karalee and her mom went to get their toes done in the mid afternoon and Kennick and I stayed home.  It got to be nap-thirty and Kennick wanted his pacifier...we talked a little and ended up walking around the house looking at the tree and a few minutes later was zonked out on my shoulder.  No fuss...pretty easy.  He slept fine though he did wake up quite grumpy.  Nothing a couple peanut butter and nutella crackers couldn't fix though.

Second test:  Bed.

We crawled into bed and read a couple books.  Very excited that we could read Christmas books.  Turned the lights off and said our prayers.  After prayers we continue a little longer blessing people.  We ended up blessing more than usual tonight though.  We even blessed the ceiling fan at one point.  We said good night and within 5 minutes he was snoozing.  Didn't even mention it.