We met Boomer!
And took silly-face self portraits!
And whined about popcorn until Mom and Dad bought us some!
And made up “jokes” then texted them to each other!
And I think some people were playing basketball, too?
Jan 252012
Dec 282011
Dec 252011
Dec 062011
Dec 052011
After a couple weeks of coughing with no other symptoms, Henry started running a fever on Sunday. A trip to urgent care earned him a diagnosis of bronchitis.
The doctor’s prescription:
five days of azithromycin
Mom’s prescription:
drop Eleanor off at preschool, return home for uninterrupted snuggles
unlimited episodes of Ben 10 and 1970s Hanna-Barbera Godzilla cartoons (Henry says Guardzilla, please nobody correct him)
Doritos and chocolate Santas at lunch
afternoon snuggles
pre-bathtime Mario Kart, including one extra race snuck in when Daddy and Eleanor weren’t looking
snuggles before bedtime
After feeling puny for a few days, Henry was doing naked karate after bathtime tonight, so I think he’s on the mend. I’ll let you decide with prescription worked best, but my money’s on the snuggles.
Yes, you can sing about a fart having a birthday party.
Why is Minnesota in the kitchen?
Please don’t step on Darth Vader.
Oh, you caught that rabbit in the ocean, huh?
We can listen to more Justin Bieber songs tomorrow.
Nov 292011
I feel like this whole NaBloPoMo exercise has been me posting every day about how I don’t have time to post and I’ll post more tomorrow. Which I’m kinda doing today, too, because you know that feeling of overwhelmed-ness when you get back home after almost six days away, and you have a crapload of stuff still to unpack, and now you have a crapload of Christmas stuff to put away after dragging all your decorations out, and your plans of starting to get caught up on email/Facebook/Twitter were thwarted by your internet being down for a chunk of the day, and you’re starting to mentally put together your to-list for December and Christmas which is making you freak out just a wee bit? Yeah, that one.
But those six days away, where we went to Carterville and Champaign to celebrate Thanksgiving, and which I’ve already mentioned a little bit here on the ol’ blog, were lots of fun. The gist of it: sleep in, eat, nap, eat, read, some fun activity, nap, hang out with family, eat, eat, sleep. I’ve already posted lots of iPhone photos from the trip (the fancypants camera was brought along but never made it out of the camera bag), but why don’t I show you some of the others that got snapped? Consider it the extra bonus DVD in your box set. Maybe I should put together a blooper reel, too.
Pre-travel preparations involved a lot of packing, and Millie was my packing supervisor. Man, she’s a tough boss.
When we were in Carterville, I continued my recent tradition of dragging out my old toys, and got out my Barbies after much begging by Eleanor. I was a little sad to discover that I am old enough now that my Barbie clothes are all back in style. There were dolman-esque sleeves galore, and one-shouldered dresses, wedge heels, and some rockin’ ’70s jumpsuits.
A treat for Andy and I was attending the SIU basketball game on Friday night.
The crowd was sparse due to the holiday, giving us plenty of room to enjoy the beautifully remodeled arena, and especially the large photos adorning the walls.
While in Champaign, Henry took some more photos.
Another treat for Andy and I was sneaking out to see The Muppets on Sunday night. We enjoyed both it and the lobby decorations.
We got home yesterday afternoon and immediately segued from Thanksgiving into Christmas. I don’t like decorating before December 1, but once again Henry and Eleanor won out.
And thus ends your Trip Through Jennifer’s iPhone. See you tomorrow for the last day of NaBloPoMo!
Nov 282011
It’s 11:53 pm and I have exactly seven minutes to slap something up on the internet to keep my NaBloPoMo streak alive. So after a day of
spend morning in Champaign
pack up van
head back to Indy
unload van
Cyber Monday shopping
“Mom, can we put up the Christmas tree?”
“When will we put up the tree?”
“How many minutes until we put up the tree?”
“Can we put up the tree now?”
“When will we put up the tree?”
“Is it time to put up the tree?”
put up the tree
prepare for twins club meeting
twins club meeting
stop by post office
late-night trip to Target
supper at 11:00
a few emails
a poorly written blog post
I’m going to pinky swear cross my heart promise to write more tomorrow.
Nov 272011
Nov 262011
holiday, part two
left one hometown, headed north
to other hometown
a three-hour drive
is two less than five hours,
feels even shorter
new car DVD
player makes the trip go by
so much more smoothly
I think I will dream
tonight about mother-in-
law’s pumpkin cheesecake
Eleanor can’t sleep,
tells Grandma she cannot stop
thinking ’bout Christmas
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