Mess

I remember reading my friend Kelly's blog awhile back when her son had gotten into the vaseline and smeared it all over the place. I thought about what a mess that must have been and that I should probably move Meredith's out of her top drawer now that she is getting into it all the time to get stuff. Well, silly me I didn't ever move it and I regretted that last night when I walked in her room to see an open jar of vaseline with almost nothing left in it. It didn't take long to see where she had smeared it....all over the wall, artfully smoothed over the top of her plastic stool, carpet, hair, comforter, clothes......oh boy, I was NOT happy! She said 'Mommy, my skool (aka 'stool') is slippery'. I just sent her out of the room before I did something I wouldn't be proud of!

Later that night while she was in the tub, she said 'Mommy, you weren't very nice' and I prompty told her back that she hadn't been very nice either and she agreed. I can be a 2.75 yr old too!

(I also found a tube of chapstick with the contents scraped out...I'm wondering where that will show up)

Fun weekend

A friend of ours is a PGA golfer and he and his wife had a big Christmas party downtown this weekend. They had a great band, great food, open bar and lots of fun friends. My mom and dad kept Meredith overnight, but we were home in bed by 12:30! Even a night out on the town isn't a late night anymore these days!

Mom took some pictures for us before we left. We don't have many pictures together lately, so I thought I'd post them even though I look like a beached whale. Chris also seemed to think our daughter was a sack of potatoes....

My parents brought Meredith to church with them on Sunday and they were the greeters that morning. Apparently, Meredith was right there with them shaking everyone's hands and telling them that Mommy and Daddy went to a big party! Mom said that she'll have to help them next time they are greeters since she was such a hit!

New Pics

The infamous Polka Dot dress. I finally got a long sleeve shirt on underneath it and wanted to take a picture and can you just see how she is wagging her finger at me, hand on hip saying "no Mommy, don't take a picture".

Potty practice. She found the crossword while we were up in TN...just thought it was hilarious.

I put the potty in the tub bc we had people coming over awhile ago and she seems to like it there!

Working hard in the barn!!

Meredith and Aunt Kaci

Meredith and Noah (son of Chris' cousin)

Helping in the horse stall....it's clean!

Thanksgiving 08

Thought I'd give a Thanksgiving update. We left for TN around 1:30 on Tuesday afternoon to embark on the trip that would take what felt like an eternity! We had to make multiple stops for diaper related issues (no, no potty training yet), food, gas etc and then we came to a dead stop about 2 hours outside of Knoxville. We crept along at 2 mph for about 45 minutes and the reason we were stopped was because a Christmas tree truck had spun out and spilled the trees all over the road. Let's say I wasn't feeling the Christmas cheer about those trees at all! Anyway, a trip that usually takes 5.5 hrs ended up taking well over 7 hrs. Meredith was really great for the most part thanks to the dvd player and lots of snacks.

It was a pretty lazy trip in that we didn't really do much of anything. Chris' Aunt and Uncle were there as well as a cousin and his family for Thursday. His two step-brothers and step-sister-in- law came on Friday. The one brother and wife have a 9 month old and they announced they are already 4 months pregnant again! Yikes....they are NUTS! However, you could mistake their little girl for a doll since she doesn't ever make a noise or whimper, so somehow they got really lucky.

We were lazy, but Meredith absolutely ran herself silly. She would NOT take a nap, so by 8:00 she was ripe for bed, but still didn't want to go to bed...you know the drill. She got to help Kaci with the horses, like dumping the bucket of feed into the trough and lugging the hose around etc. I got some really cute pictures I'll try to post soon. She had lots of fun.

Chris actually went to the outlets at 3am with his sister and brother in law on Friday for their Midnight madness sale. I definitely didn't go, but he did bring back lots of goodies for me!! Good boy :)

Thank goodness the week is already almost over. Nothing else too exciting going on other than trying to get shopping done. Our first Christmas is next weekend in Greensboro, so better get crackin'!

Good friends

Just found this picture from a couple of years ago. These are the girls that got me through grad school!! We had almost every class together through the whole darn thing. I still say I wouldn't have gotten through it without them. Two of my best friends, Jennifer in the middle and Meredith on the right.