Stockings

We spent the holidays at home this year for the first time. It was very, very nice and very quiet. In honor of our first Christmas alone as a family I decided to make us our very own stockings. If you know me very well, you will know that I have an inability to do anything simple, however insignificant. I decided to do a ridiculously complicated pattern that I made up myself and these little stockings ended up taking way too much time during the holiday season- and afterwards. I finally finished them... wait for it... today! Seeing as I dedicated so much blood (literally- getting needle pricked), sweat and tears to them, I can't resist showing them off.

Here is a back view. I think I like the back better than the front, unfortunately.

Here is the front view. I used pieces of fabric that I had lying around the house for the patchwork.

-Nat

No.

Pearl has learned the word "no." She first said it after she whacked me with a large lotion bottle in the nose and I said to her, "OW! NO!" She then said, "no, no, no, no." Now she loves to walk around the house chanting it every now and then. She has taken to saying it most often when she is in the bathroom and starts to walk behind to toilet to access the plunger and toilet cleaner. She says, "no, no, no" as she walks closer and closer (I have told her "no" for doing that a few times...).
-Nat

Pearl can walk!!

It happened yesterday. She was quietly playing on the floor while I was reading the paper. She picked up a drum mallet in each hand and then took 4-5 steps over to me with a little smile on her face. I was dumbfounded! She walked again (although she was not happy about it) for the camera (below) but hasn't wanted to walk since. Strange.

-Nat

Snow Fun

Eat your hearts out hot weather lovers! Ok, really I'm jealous of you. Stress starts to flow through my veins at the first sign of snow fall here. I dread driving in it. I loathe driving in it. I would rather eat shrimp and play bloody video games. Someday we will live in a year-round sunny place. It was fun to see Bryan get all excited about his mammoth snow man though. It was so big, the head and body rolled off the very next day. Bryan still thinks it was some mischievous teenagers who did it.

-Nat

Just some recent Pearl funnies...

The video is about 4 minutes.

-Nat