I never did tell y'all what you got for Christmas this past year. I really haven't gotten to post on this blog at all much this year. I have been feeling under the weather. I had a real bad cold that took me two and a half weeks to get rid of, I had a sinus infection that developed because of the cold, I had a terrible toothache on my top left rear molar and when they went to pull it he loosened up one of my wisdom teeth so he took that one too, and now I have a kidney stone. I have missed tons and tons of work this year. I bet I've used up half my time off already and we're not even out of January yet. Your Mom's been feeling kinda yucky as well, as she mentioned in her last post.
This past Friday Mom & I decided to take a trip out to Nicholasville so we could eat and go to Wal-Mart. Becca and Grant were with Mamaw for some reason or another and she agreed to keep them until we got back from our married people date. We went to Golden Corral, which I am liking less and less every time I go. We paid $25 for the two of us and probably didn't eat enough to justify half that price. We went to Wal-Mart next. We split up in Wal-Mart. I went and bought a DVD case for the Christmas DVD project I am planning. I downloaded from the internet and from TiVo tons of Christmas shows and I intend on burning them all to DVD before next Christmas. It's gonna be a big job but I know it will be fun. It'll probably take all year because with the kids I just don't have time for projects like I used to. I also got a Valentines shirt for you that matches a pair of Valentine pants you have. I didn't even know you had the pants when I picked out the shirt. I also got some de-icer for the car, some windshield washer fluid, a copy of my favorite magazine, Smart Computing, some rechargeable lithium AA batteries and maybe one or two other odds and ends. Your Mom went grocery shopping. Then we headed for Versailles.
We decided to drop Mom off and unload our stuff so she could be putting it away while I went down to get the kids. When I got there Becca was ready to go and Grant really didn't care. Grant did get awful excited to see me when I came through the door though. I thought that was real sweet. I talked Becca into staying the night with Mamaw & Papaw. I brought Grant home and he was sound asleep so we just let him sleep. Mom & I finally got a chance to watch a movie; something we haven't done since we watched Night at the Museum when Mom was in the hospital recovering from her C-section with Grant. We watched Blades of Glory with Will Ferrel. It was about two figure skater guys who hate each other but end up teaming together in pair figure skating. It was real funny. It was nice to relax and watch a movie with Mom.
The next day Mom had to go into work at 2:30 Saturday afternoon and work until 6:00 Sunday morning. Grant woke me up and I fed him and since I didn't have Becca to get in the way I finally got around to taking down the Christmas tree. It's been up way too long but for the same reason we haven't been posting is the reason the tree was still up. Mom woke up in time to go to work and she was so excited to see that the tree was down. I was glad to get it down myself. Even Becca was getting tired of it. I love Christmas trees at Christmas but not towards the end of January. I took down the outside lights long ago because people can see the outside of your house and it would have been embarrassing to still have that stuff up much past the new year. I cleaned up the living room and vacuumed up the artificial needles and then I sat down to watch some television before Becca got home. I started out with my new favorite show, Dr. Who from Great Britain. It's a sci-fi show that's been on the air since 1963. There was a ten year gap in there somewhere but they brought the show back and I love it. I had about fourteen of the shows TiVoed. I watched and watched and waited for Becca but Becca decided she wanted to stay one more night which was fine by me. I got to have a weekend in which I didn't have to watch Blue's Clues, Pinky Dinky Doo, or any other of Becca's favorite kid's shows. Those shows are driving me crazy. I probably could have posted to the blog then but I didn't even have the computer open. I did open it a time or two to get some background on the episode of Dr. Who I was watching. Anyway, I put Grant down who had been as good as gold all day long. He just sat in my lap while we played together as I watched Dr. Who.
The next day was pretty much exactly like the day before. I got all of the Dr. Who episodes watched. Becca eventually came home around 5:00 Sunday afternoon. She got a shower/bath and we watched a few of her shows. While I didn't miss her shows I did miss her. I tried to put her to bed but she has been saying she's afraid of the dark but what I really believe it is is that she just doesn't want to go to bed. I laid down in her bed with her for five or ten minutes and when I thought she was asleep I got up to leave but she sat up and started whining again. I asked her if she wanted to sleep in Mom & Dad's big bed and she said she did. I laid down with her in my bed and we both went right to sleep. I had to wake up and feed Grant at around 10:30 that night. I knew I would though because I couldn't get him to take any of his nightly bottle. I fed him, put him back to bed and sat up awhile longer and then I went back to bed myself. I woke up for work and Mamaw came over to watch Becca & Grant until Mom got home from work.
Monday night your Mom was still beat down by her two double shifts so I took Becca & Grant and we let Mom sleep while we went to get some fish at Long John Silvers. We ate it all up and Mom & I watched an episode of Criminal Minds, a show about FBI profilers. I couldn't believe we got all the way through it. It took us about two hours to watch the one hour show but still we got it watched which is saying something. We finished up at around 8:00 that night. I was tired so I took a shower and went to bed and straight to sleep. Then I woke up at around 3:00 Tuesday morning with the unmistakable pain of a kidney stone. I was making so much racket crying and moaning that I woke up Grant. Mamaw came and Mom took me to the emergency room at Saint Joseph's on Harrodsburg Road. I was given some morphine and something for nausea and sent home. I must have been in some absolutely serious pain because the morphine only took the edge off of the pain. It didn't do away with it like I wanted. I am still in bad pain as I sit here typing out this post. They gave me a prescription for some percocets and some nausea medication. I took a pain pill earlier today but didn't take a nausea pill because I wasn't nauseous. The pain subsided but all of a sudden I had to make a quick run for the toilet because the pain pill made me throw up. Mom made me an appointment to see a doctor later. I went and everybody wanted to put me in the hospital. I told them I wanted to wait another day to see if I can pass the stone on my own. Sounds like a nice weekend and a pretty crappy week so far.
I was going to tell what the kids got for Christmas from everybody. Christmas Eve down at Mamaw & Papaw's Becca got a Baby Alive from Mamaw & Papaw. That was what she wanted most in the world. Even when she sat on Santa's knee all she told him was a Baby Alive. She absolutely loved it and I loved watching her reaction to it; pure Christmas joy. She also got a big towel with a pig's head, she got a T-shirt that said "Friends are forever. Boys are Whatever", a pair of jeans, a pretty long sleeved shirt, a pair of khaki slacks, I got her a Barbi Laptop computer learning toy, Mom got her a light up bear with a magic wand to make the light change colors, and extra food for her Baby Alive. Grant got clothes.
Then it was time to go home so we could get in bed and wait for Santa. Becca woke up first and sneaked into the living room. She came running into our bedroom hollering about how Santa has been to our house and left her candy bracelets. I was in Christmas heaven when she did that. She was so excited. This is the first year that she's really been aware enough to kind of know what's going on. We got up and we all went into the living room. We woke Grant up because we wanted him to share in this Christmas magic even though he probably would have rather kept on sleeping. The milk and cookies were gone and the carrot sticks had been eaten. Becca got a big art desk with crayons, glue, water color paints, finger paints, Play-dough, markers, and a new pair of scissors. All of that was sitting out already set up and everything with Disney Princess band aids and the candy bracelets she mentioned sitting on the art desk. I just don't know how Santa has time to do it all. She also got more diapers for her Baby Alive, a Diego View Master that she at first thought was a Diego helicopter, a huge stuffed giraffe that stood up on his own, a zebra talking flashlight, a Disney Princess Enchanted Tales DVD, a set of play tools so she could, as she said, fix anything that's broken, a plastic flute, a Barbi car with two Barbi dolls, a bag of little plastic dinosaurs, a pink and white pull along puppy, toddler roller blades, a Play-dough toy, a Fisher-Price digital Camera with case, a Chutes and Ladders board game, a barrel of monkeys, a Candy Land board game, a Hungry Hungry Hippo game, some new anticavity mouth swish, a new tea set, a shopping basket full of plastic food, big girl underwear ("Santa's giving me underwear?"), a big sister and big sister furniture for her My First doll house that she got for Christmas last year, a huge tub of sidewalk chalk, a boy baby doll with a bunch of accessories, a baby doll car seat, a baby doll tub with bathing accessories, play make-up set, a Strawberry Shortcake doll, a pink doctor kit, a new Barbi electric tooth brush with Barbi tooth paste, Life Saver book, tons of candy, an apple, an orange and extra ViewMaster cards. Later when I was taking down the outdoor Christmas lights I found a brand new hulahoop on the roof that Santa must have dropped and the other day as I was taking down the tree I found a brand new twirling baton that Santa must have hidden in the Christmas Tree. All in all I think Becca made out pretty good this Christmas.
Grant didn't do as well but of course Grant's too young to care just yet. From Santa he got different sized rings on a post,a key ring, shaped Blocks with a bucket, an animal train, a hippo walker like Becca had when she was a baby and a dinosaur shaped toy where you drop balls into different holes and they come out on bottom. He made out pretty good too to be only five months old.
Everything Becca opened was what she had always wanted and Grant just enjoyed watching Becca having a ball opening her gifts. Christmas is getting more fun by the year. I can't wait until next year. Only 330 Days, 2 Hours and 10 Minutes left until Christmas comes again. I'm also excited about 2009 because as I was doing research into all of the different versions of Dicken's Christmas Carol I could download and burn I run up on a new version slated for 2009. It's going to star Jim Carrey as old Ebenezor Scrooge and the three Christmas ghosts. It's going to be animated in the same way that The Polar Express was done. I am all a twitter over this new version.
Becca's still having trouble with her potty training. I don't know what it could be. I know she knows how to use the potty she just doesn't. When she poops in her pull-up she'll just say that's okay, it was just an accident. That's what we told her at first because we didn't want to make her feel bad about pooping in her pull-up but it's getting to be where it's not okay. She's three and a half and she needs to start getting trained.
Well, I'm sure there's tons of stuff I would like to talk about but it's really been a month since I have published a decent post and I tend to forget things so all of the great little pieces of trivia dealing with Becca and Grant's childhood are now gone forever. I'm gonna close out this post. Daddy loves Rebecca & Grant!
