To start I promise I'm going to update my blog soon with some pictures of Christmas. One of my resolutions this year is to be better about keeping up with my blog. I so enjoy doing it and it frustrates me that I get behind. Anyways, here is the sweetest story I just had to get it in tonight so that I don't forget it.
Emma was doing the "pee pee dance". Come on now, you all know what it looks like. A little shake here, a little wiggle there. Anyways, I made her go to the potty even though she professed that she didn't need to go, well, interestngly enough she didn't go, which just annoyed me. I told her to stop doing the pee pee dance if she didn't need to go potty and she told me "I was just getting comfortable". Well, that isn't the cute part. About 5 minutes after I had fussed at her she said, "mama, I love you." And I said, "you do? why?" She said, without hesitation, "because your the best mama in the whole wide world", and then she proceded to give me the best and longest hug ever. I of course teared up a little and squeezed her so hard, knowing that some day, some day soon, she is going to think I'm stupid and I don't know anything at all. Man, I love her.
Christmas is so much fun with kids. Emma got a kitchen and a real digital kids camera from Santa. Although she saw the kids nativity scene first and she played with it for 10 minutes before we convinced her to open her other presents. I'm glad she liked it. So last year I learned a lesson about Christmas, take all the toys out of packaging before Christmas morning, which I did this year and it was great!! Emma could 
play with her toys immediately and I didn't have to fight with packaging. Well, this year I've learned another lesson for next year, wrap the presents before Christmas Eve. I think Kevin and I crawled into bed at 3am! Uggg. Luckily our kids aren't old enough to wake up at the crack of dawn on Christmas, I think we got up at 9am, which was great. Of course Jackson didn't care if he had presents or not. He just liked chewing on the bows and wrapping paper.
This year I had the kids picture done with Santa at a photography studio. On one of my forums someone mentioned that they had gone and had their kids pictures done and loved them and the prices were reasonable. So I thought, what the heck, I'll go too. I did get more choices to choose from and I didn't have to stand in any long lines, which was nice. We didn't have much luck getting Jackson to smile but at least both of the kids are looking at the camera and they aren't crying.
Ummm, I'd like a camera that takes real pictures and a big kitchen.
At least this year she smiled.
Jackson: Ummm, who are you? Can I chew on that white ball?
