Its finally time for Christmas pictures!!!

Alright!!! Finally time for some Christmas pics ha ha!! If I wasn't using this for journal purposes I would probably just skip the last 4ish months but this is the only way I can keep track of stuff. Soooooo here goes! Christmas Eve presents are . . . . . . Jammies of course!! And of course no pictures of the kids in their jammies. Someday I'll have my ducks in a row.

The tree -
The annual sleepover - minus Jake he's not quite big enough yet for that. Presents, Presents and more presents!!!

Jake's breakfast. Yep, popcorn.
Using our presents. :) Gracie seriously disappeared after opening everything and this is how we found her! We video recorded her opening her leapster thinking she would react the best to that. Oh no, when she opened her make up she went NUTS! Santa brought me make up! He really brought me make up!! Stuff like that for like 5 minutes and after that nothing else mattered!!

Gracie wouldn't share so Jake's a little upset.
Not sure what this is from. He just looks cute.

Christmas Performance

Alright back to catching up. Here is our Touch of Class Christmas Performance in a nutshell :) and yes I am going to embarrass myself by putting our teachers dance on here. (Yes I haven't even done Christmas!!)

Gracie's best friend Devree
Gracie
Mom and GracieI'm out there somewhere
Santa!!

Promptings

So tonight as I hang out in my single momness (ha ha) I was unwinding on the computer from tonight's grueling events of putting the kids to bed by myself I had the thought pop into my head - you should go check and make sure the cords not wrapped around Gracie's neck. Backtracking a little since Alan's gone I told Gracie she could sleep with me. She opted for the floor so I put her to bed on the floor and she was talking to me off and on - Mom I want to go to tumbling tomorrow - Mom yadda yadda yadda. Well, she was laying on my side of the bed and I have my phone charger plugged in right next to my side and it just hangs out. My door stays shut during the day so Jake can't get in (for now, he can almost open doors, YIKES!) so I haven't ever thought of it as a risk. So I get to a stopping point on my project (organizing my pictures fun huh?) and I go in and peek at her. Well I can't see her very good from the doorway and so I sneak in and she's moves/sits up and says - Are you coming to lay by me? So I say yes I can see the cord coming out of the wall and it looks normal like its just right there so I lay by her and we snuggle (she is seriously the best snuggler ever!) And she's talking a little bit but holding still. All of a sudden she starts moving around kinda weird. I ask her what's she's doing and she says - oh, this is just on me. All of a sudden I can see the cord poking out of the covers by her head. I grab it and find that it was wrapped around her neck. TWICE. . . .crazy. The thoughts of what could have happened had I not gone in there gives me the shivers. Thank you for promptings. I'm glad I listened.

Next . . .

With the binkie. . . .
Without the binkie. . .
Preschool Christmas Party - I decided to go and see how the parties work. Fun for the 3 years olds not so fun for mom chasing Jake. I was exhausted by the end. But Gracie had fun and they didn't mind Jake running around everywhere, which was nice.