It's the most magical time of the year

Today, Santa visited Katherine's school. She sat on his lap and asked for a stuffed owl and a robot Katherine and Robot Lauren. She was explaining it to Lauren and said that when santa brings the robots, they can each have a playmate who is a robot them and they won't fight anymore. Then she said "and when the batteries run out, mommy will just put new ones in! Welllll....maybe" So, do you have the scoop on robot kids? If so, please sharefor right now, my mantra to katherine is "go ahead kid and dream the impossible dream"
This morning, we made gingerbread cookies. We are having our annual cookie decorating party tomorrow afternoon and we're expecting 11 kids. yikes!

Last night, while I was changing the 3rd poopy pull up of the day, I said "Lauren, it would make a great Christmas present for mommy and daddy if you used the potty instead of a pull up". About 20 minutes later she calls me and I follow her little voice into the bathroom where I find her perched on the edge of the potty going poop. She woke up dry this morning and ran to the potty and went 1 & 2 so now she's in big girl panties. She's had two small pee accidents (which really kind of stinks since the dryer is broken and the repairman isn't coming until MONDAY) but no poopie oopsies.

Besides that giant breakthrough, we also went to our Daisy Meeting. One sign that you may be a little too into Project Runway? When you decide that giving 5 & 6 year old kids wrapping paper, tape, ribbons and tinsel and give them 15 minutes to design an outfit. We had a blast.

Katherine is one smart Cookie...maybe a little too smart

Today in the car she says "mom, what happened when Santa was a baby?" I said "hua?" And she said "I guess no one got presents when grandma was little because a baby can't drive a sleigh right?" To which I said "ummm, honey, I think it's a family thing. Santa's dad did the job for a few years, then when Santa Jr. grew up enough, he took over and his kids will take over for him." At the time, I thought this was a pretty clever answer (right up there with "Trolls and Giants only live in Ohio so there is nothing to be afraid of here if Florida) but now I'm convinced that she just stopped asking questions because she didn't want to see me sweat anymore.

Oh, and Ohio people, you can forget about us ever going there again. I don't know why I didn't pick a state where we don't know anyone....like Montana. Ohio was just the first state that popped into my brain.

We are keeping busy with Christmas stuff. I've been a wrapping madwoman, but all of my shopping is DONE! Woody is going to love his gifts and I can't wait to enjoy some time with the girls playing with their new stuff. I got some really cool stuff for them this year. Stuff I used to love like the original colorforms, lite brite and art stuff.

Katheirne has earned her first patch for Daisy's (for learning the girl scout promise) and we are now working on our first petal which is for Honest and Fair from the GS Law. I'm wracking my brain trying to come up with crafts/games...anything to teach honest and fair. any tips?

Lauren is doing ok. She's getting a little sassy lately but she's been doing great about going to sleep like a big girl. That's so nice since it means that Woody and I get an extra hour or so to ourselves each evening.

We have a very busy month with a couple of parties at friends houses, a GS party, carrolling at the Veterens home with the Daisys, my annual cookie decorating party (whould'a ever thought?) and of course Christmas. Mingled in there, my mom and step dad are coming down for her second opinion at Moffit and we will be going to Tallahassee right after Christmas to visit with my Cousin and his famly. It will be a short visit though since we are having a big NYE/Birthday/Anniversary party on NYE. I'm looking forward to having a sleepover with our friends and celebrating such a bunch of stuff.