Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you all had a good Christmas. We had a very nice day. The girls loved everything that they got. Emily was so excited for every gift. Even Ally figured out that when I called her name and had a present in my lap that she was getting something good. I hope you all enjoy the pictures of the girls from Christmas eve and Christmas day!
As most of you know, a litte before Thanksgiving, Em and her friend Tessa decided to cut each others hair, after watching Tessa's mommy get her hair cut. It wasn't that big of a deal and I hadn't even made it in to get it re styled. Then, on Monday, I had Devon over and wasn't paying enough attention to Em, obviously, and she cut her bangs a little, which were well on their way to being grown out. Then today, my friend Tricia who cuts my hair, came over and gave me a cut and color in the kitchen while Tessa and Em played. Mike called when we were done and needed a ride home for lunch so Tricia stayed with the girls. Well, Em saw her opportunity and decided to ask Tricia for her craft bag, with the SAFTEY sissors in it. In the span of seconds Tricia heard..."I'm going to cut my hair just like Tricia cut mommy's." And that's all it took. Luckily Tricia is a hairsylist and was able to "fix" her hair, as much as she could. So, I am including a picture of the hair that she cut (not including her hair from the real haircut) , which there was more that I threw away before I started saving it. And one of her with her new haircut, that totally breaks my heart by the way. And I am keeping the clumps of hair so that one day when she asks me why I gave her that horrible haircute, I can show her that it was because she cut her hair so bad. And for the record, I have hid all the sissors so well that I'm going to have to make a map for Mike and I to find them now!
Emily celebrated her 4th birthday on Friday. We took her and her friend to Chucky Cheese. She had a blast. Thank you to all who came, we are truly lucky to have so many people who love our girls! I think I counted 12 adults, 4 babies, and 2 kids. Emily actually let the mouse hug her without hesitating. I was shocked. The great thing about Chucky Cheese is that we were able to pass out the rest of the cupcakes to all the kids before we left, otherwise we would have had to take them home and I have a major weakness for cake. Ally enjoyed herself riding the car, when we would put the coin in she would squeal and laugh. It was so funny, I've never seen her that excited. I think she'll be my roller coaster girl!
A few weeks ago Em, Ally, my mom, My friend Jen and her daughters Tessa and Bella, (four and 10 mo.), and myself went to the movie happy feet. It was a very interesting movie day, my mom finds it hilarious and says I should share it, however, I'm just getting around to laughing.
We get to the movies at 3:30 and are running a little late so we get the girls booster seats and get them situated towards the bottom of the theater. They get all settled so we hand them their popcorn and begin to watch the movie. Soon, we run out of popcorn with a lot of people eating it so I get a refill, but by the time I get back, no one is hungry. So the full bag gets discarded on the floor. Then Emily and Tessa have to go potty, so they get down with seats banging to the ground and then knock over the full popcorn so they are loudly crunching popcorn as they are trying to get through the maze of people. I warn my mom before I go, (who is trying to get Ally to sleep) that she needs to watch where she puts the soda because last week I was doing the same thing and Ally kicked my full soda onto the ground when she didn't want to lie down in my arms. She says ok and the girls and I exit to the bathroom. When I come back, sure enough, Ally had knocked over the soda with her feet when my mom tried to lie her in her arms. So now soda and popcorn are all over the floor and people are giving us "the look". The chaos over?...Oh No...the worst hasn't even happened.
Ally wakes up towards the last 20 mins. of the movie and is fussy wiggly so I pick her up and take her to the back to walk her. She is facing me at this point and the next thing I know, I look down just in time to see her throw up all over me...three times!! I'm in the back COVERED and everyone else is in the front, so what do I do? I start yelling, "MOM! MOM! JENNI!" By then everyone is staring at me from the back 5 rows. And it smell BAD! She can't hear me so I put ally on the floor in the corner and run to them and say, "mom, we have to go now, get the girls." She then tries to get Emily out of her chair and when she figures out that we are leaving starts yelling, "I don't want to go I want to watch the movie" and loudly crying. Ally is so covered I have to strip her down and throw away her clothes. We exited the theater through the back and I realize my mom didn't grab my new sweatshirt. So back she goes looking for it and she was so embarrassed but laughing too. She couldn't find it and was feeling around on the wet popcorned floor and finally found it in my chair, but it was stuck. So there she is pulling and laughing with all her might. Then we get to leave and I'm less than thrilled because Ally and I are covered and smell bad. But my mom is in the car laughing and I finally say, as politely as I can, "mom, I'm really not finding any of this funny right now" It didn't even phase her though!
Em and I did make it back on Friday to watch the movie with the last 7 mins. we missed, however, we found a sitter for Allyson! And let me just say, it didn't go all that smooth either, they had theater malfunctions and we had to switch theaters after that movie already started! I do recommend it though, it's cute!
