Mishaps and Adventures all Around

Ally
1. Managed to take off her sweats, take off her diaper, pee on the kitchen floor, and put on a different pair of pants. Matt came out of the office and found pee on the floor, blamed the cats, but then he saw the diaper and noticed Ally was wearing jeans, but no diaper.
2. Has learned to take her diaper off in the night and throw it out of her crib. We have started safety pinning the zipper in her feetsie pajamas so she can't take her pajamas off.
3. Learned a naughty word thanks to Ni Hao Kai Lan...apparently the Chinese word for snow sounds an awful lot like, well, um, a bad word.

Matt
1. Sold his one true love, I mean truck, to get ready for the new baby. (It wouldn't fit 2 carseats), so we are now in the market for a new car. Note: NOT a mini-van. Although some of our friends said to just suck it up and do it so we didn't have to invest in one in 3 years from now when we have another, but neither one of us is willing to drive a minivan yet, so that wouldn't work.

Sarah
1. Spilled scalding hot soup on her hand at work and still has a nice red mark 3 days later. (I may or may not have said the afore-mentioned bad word when it happened).

More Dress-up

This is Ally with her pants on her head. Dad came in and she was yelling "hat, hat!"
I will not, however, be posting pictures of her with my underwear on her head, my G-tops worn like a dress, and my bra as a belt.

My "Sisters"

The Ally Tag

5 Things that I love about Ally:

1. She has recently discovered dress-up. Yesterday she spent all day in a lady bug costume, with the addition of butterfly wings, my scarf wrapped around her head and her nightgown pulled (unsucessfully) up over her legs.

2. She says "No sank you." Which I just think is too funny for a two year old to respond to "Do you want something to drink?" with "No sank you." Usually, it's just NO.

3. If she wants you to come with her, she calls you like we call the cats. She says, "'Mon." and then make this clicking/kissing noise to get you to come, the way that we do with our kitties.

4. She is incredibly good natured and has yet to show any signs of stranger anxiety (unless rudely awakened to a bunch of people, but then again who likes to be awakened to an audience?)

5. She still looks adorable with her new 'do:

Bad Hair Day

Yesterday I was doing a little pregnant pilates (which is the same as normal pilates, except I'm fat and pregnant, the people on the video are not). Matt decided to trim Ally's bangs. He told me he was going to do it and he has done it before, so I wasn't worried. But I guess he was really sick of her hair being in her eyes because he went a little crazy this time. Her bangs are a good inch and half above her eyebrows. I cried. I know it's just hair and it will grow back, but she looks so ridiculous. See for yourself:

(I'm not ready to post real pictures yet...)
Would you be upset? Or am I just hormonal?

ADDENDUM:
I just have to clarify that by upset, I don't mean at Matt. After all, haven't we all learned the hard way that bangs when wet are much longer than bangs when they dry? It just makes me sad to see my sweet little girl looking so silly, that's all.

What I did for Christmas

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
It's been a while since I read a book I absolutely could not put down. Read this whopper over the Christmas break and I highly recommend it! Although, I'm a little disappointed about the choice of Brenden Frasier as Mo in the upcoming movie...I pictured him looking a little more like Geppetto. Hopefully it will still be an exciting flick.


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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

My review

rating: 2 of 5 stars
I found this book to be mostly interesting. Up until he left Battle School. At that point I was a little tired of tactics. Also, the ending left me with more questions than answers...perhaps someone smarter than I am can help me out. Ender didn't know that he was actually destroying the Bugger's world. Did the other children know that they were fighting for real? If there were other worlds with Buggers on them (where Ender found the egg), why were all the queens congregated on the one planet? Especially if they knew that Ender was coming to destroy them? Wouldn't he have had to destroy all their planets?

Anyway, the psychology of the children was worth the read.


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