Heck of a couple of days

So yesterday I spent the entire afternoon and night making ornaments with Alaythia! I made them from scratch, cut them out, baked them, and then sat Alaythia down and we started to paint them! I am so proud of her!! She was having such a great time! She kept yelling "Mommy codur!" codur=color! It was so much fun! Well all my hard work paid off. Today we were able to finish decorating our tree and it is BEAUTIFUL!!! I love Christmas and decorations! Tomorrow we will hang lights around our windows, put up the rest of the decals, and start buying more stuff for our village. I love this time of year! We started watching our traditional holiday movies like our ALL TIME fave National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.Which is playing right now! We watch this movie EVERY Christmas. Especially Christmas day! We also watch the Santa Clause, A Christmas Story, and for the first time in my life It's A Wonderful Life. Yes yes I have NEVER seen It's A Wonderful Life but don't worry Aaron is making me watch it this year!

Well last night after all my hard work I was SO ready to get to bed but my kids had other plans for me. They both woke up at about 2AM and got sick! It was horrible! They both had fevers and everything! I didn't get to bed til after 5AM when they finally stopped getting sick and got tired again. They woke up at about 10Am after that and seemed to be feeling better. Their temps have gone down to pretty close to normal and they have been able to keep their food down. They are sleeping peacefully and I am going to be going to bed very soon!

Well I wish you all a Happy Holiday!!!! And a good night!!

Why I hate "Black Friday"

I absolutely HATE shopping on black friday. I went out once with my mother and vowed to NEVER do it again! The bitchiness of people, the childishness, and the complete and utter chaos! The "OMG YOU CUT IN LINE" That is something people say when they are in elementary school standing in the lunch line! Not to mention the complete and utter disregard for the well being of others! Here is a tragic story of those such people who just don't give a crap about anyone but a few dollars off some stupid worthless material thing!

In a hurry to take advantage of holiday discounts at a Long Island, N.Y., Wal-Mart, hundreds of shoppers busted through the store's front door, trampling a maintenance worker to death.

The 34-year-old man, whose name has not been released, tried to contain the growing crowd when the store opened for its annual Black Friday sale at 5 a.m. But shoppers surged into the store, knocking the man down and stepping on him.

"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," co-worker Jimmy Overby, 43, told the New York Daily News. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too. ... I literally had to fight people off my back."

Emergency crews were called to save the man's life, but shoppers continued to rush past the scene until police shut down the Valley Stream store. The man was then taken to nearby Franklin Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:03 a.m.

Wal-Mart called the death "a tragic situation," in a statement released Friday. "The safety and security of our customers and associates is our top priority."

But Nassau County Det. Lt. Michael Fleming told the New York Times that the store could have worked harder to prevent this situation.

"I've heard other people call this an accident, but it's not," he tells the Times. "This certainly was foreseeable."

My favorite time of year

Ok so Thanksgiving has come and gone and it was a great day!!!! I LOVE cooking! I have one more "Thanksgiving" party coming up with my family on Sunday!!! I can't wait!

But my fave holiday is Christmas! I love the snow(not ice), the holiday cheer, the music, the decorations, and most of all FAMILY!!!!!!!!!! I love Christmas. Every Christmas my mom's family comes to my Grandma's for a family Christmas. I LOVE going up there to see family members I haven't seen since Christmas. The discussions, the food, the kids, just the overall happiness!!!!

We are going to be decorating our tree tomorrow night! We tried doing it the day before Thanksgiving because Aaron had to work the day after and we were doing our dinner on Thanksgiving. We still need to get a tree star, garland, and a few more window decals. Aaron's mom gave me a set of 100 cookie cutters for Christmas! They are awesome! It has cookie cutters for Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentines, Sports, Different shapes, Letters, Numbers, and stuff! The bucket has a recipe for bake art dough! So I am going to make ornaments!!! I am going to get some food coloring and some sharpies and make lots of ornaments with the girls! I know Anteya can't really help but I can put her in her high chair and she can at least watch! I can't wait to start making them tomorrow!

The kids:
Anteya is getting so big!!!! She just really started crawling a little over a week ago! Today she started pulling herself up on the furniture! I was laying on the floor playing with the kids this morning when Anteya grabbed my shirt and pulled herself up! Then when it was nap time she pulled herself up in the crib and later while playing on the floor she pulled herself up on the couch! She is eating what we eat now! I don't have to puree anything anymore! She eats regular stuff! She absolutely LOVED the turkey dinner yesterday! She handled everything so well! She LOVES turkey!

Alaythia turns 2 in 22 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it! She is having a Winnie the Pooh themed party! She LOVES Winnie! She is talking full force pretty much! 99% of the time you can understand her! She makes full sentences. The norm for a 2 year old is 3-5 word phrases. Alaythia probably gets up to 7 word sentences! But is following very well with "normal" developement otherwise! I really can't believe how quickly they grow! After Anteya was born time seemed to go by slow since she was sick but now they have just flown by! I remember like it was a yesterday when I had Anteya and Alaythia wasn't walking and now Alaythia wants to walk EVERYWHERE, she is telling me clearly what she wants, and is just so funny! Look at Anteya! It has been 6 months yesterday since her surgery and the only thing that shows she had any problems at all is her scar well and I guess her weight issues which are getting better slowly! She is probably back up to where she was at birth on the growth scale!


It is amazing how quickly they grow! EVERYONE cherish these momtents because before you know it they will be grown!

A lot of new stuff

Anteya has her first 2 teeth in now! She is so cute! She does this really funny thing where she sucks on her tongue! It is SO FUNNY. She sits up all by herself now, she is trying to crawl but LOVES walking more and is getting so good at it. Anteya is 8 months old today! I can't believe it. It seems like time has moved by so fast since her surgery. Anteya is rolling everywhere now too! It is hilarious! She will be next to me on the floor and I will look away for a minute and when I look back she is on the opposite side of the room! It is great. She cut her tongue somehow today! I couldn't believe it. I was playing with her while I waited for supper to get done in the oven and I noticed quite a few brown spots on her shirt. They were quite large but they must have been mixed with saliva. Then I look at her tongue and she has this slit in the center and a bruise on the side of the slit! I am wondering if the bruise isn't a tongue hickey from sucking on her tongue LOL! OH I almost forgot Anteya said DADADADA already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so excited!

Alaythia gave us a scare today. She was playing and poured some water from her sippy on to our linoleum floor and then slipped in it and hit her head HARD on the floor. Under that linoleum is concrete. Aaron and I were really scared. A few minutes later Alaythia went pale and didn't seem interested in talking on the phone. She just sat there and didn't say much. Within a half hour though she was back to her normal self. Thank goodness.

Alaythia is going to be 2 in 1 month 1 week and 2 days!!!! Just 3 months later Anteya turns 1!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it! Alaythia has an extremely good vocab. She pretty much says anything and doesn't forget it either! Yesterday I was reading this Sesame Street dictionary book that she loves. She was pointing to stuff that she had never really seen before and telling me what they were. Like a bike, a round cake, and so on. I mean half the stuff I was really surprised she knew. She is getting really good at potty training. She hasn't gotten peepee in the potty yet but poopy is down to almost a science. She grabs a diaper and tells me "poopy mommy" and we go to the potty and she goes!!!!!! She LOVES flushing the potty when she is all done! I couldn't be more proud of her! She is gonna love Christmas and all the decorations! Her first real word was pretty. She had her first taste of hot coco! LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!! I made it with milk instead of water and OMGoodness it is so yummy that way! WAY better than with water!

Well it's late gotta run I will update more on the 24th for sure since Anteya has a weight check that day!

So it has been awhile

So it has been a LONG time since I have updated. Well we won this contest to go see Winnie the Pooh and Friends show. We took the girls on the 26th of Octorber and they both had a BLAST!!!!! Alaythia danced, clapped, laughed, yelled POOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!, and just had so much fun! I was so happy we won!

They girls are doing great! Anteya was weighed a couple weeks ago and she weighed 15lbs 8oz and is 26 1/4 inches long. She gained 1lb 5oz in a month! I am so happy! She is just doing so well. Next month we are going to switch her back to Enfamil GentleEase. Instead of the NeoSure formula she gets now which has 2 more calories per oz than the other stuff. It has helped a lot! Alaythia was weighed the other day and she is now 33lbs 2oz! She is up there on her growth chart. But is doing just fine. She is 33lbs 2oz and 33 inches long. I have me a little buddah belly girl! And another little girl catching up LOL!!!!

We are going to start trying for baby #3 in February. Aaron will be done with his first section of school and hopefully getting a nice job before the baby would be born. He plans on going back to school in the fall so he can get better financial aid. He is going back for his Associates in Computer Systems Information. I couldn't be more proud of him! He is doing a wonderful job at school! He is working at Papa John's now and going to school so I can stay home with the girls! He is such a great man! I LOVE YOU HONEY!!!!!!!!!

So now on to the 2008 Election! I was not originally for Barrack Obama. I was for Hillary Clinton! She is AWESOME!!!!!!! I think she would have done a better job for our country than either male candidate. BUT I am so glad Obama won over McCain! We don't need another Bush running our country and that is EXACTLY what McCain is! I don't mean to offend anyone this is just my political opinion. I do wish that Hillary would have won and hope that in 4 years she does again! It would be great! But for the next 4 years we have Obama and I am satsified with that. I hope the change he promised is the change he will bring to us! I am happy that this election has brought new opportunity for Americans! Who ever thought a black man and a woman would ever run? I never thought I would see the day! But I am so proud right now to be an American! The change that this election has brought already to us as Americans is AMAZING!!! I hold out lots of hope for our country to fight back and get back to being a more stable economically than we have been the last 8 years! CONGRATS OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!