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Zuzu Carols 2011

Jingle Bells

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all da way

How much funnn is to ride innn slurpin sleigh,

Yay!

Repeat over and over and over and over again.

Zuzu Quote

I really should consolidate all the little quotes I have written down over the last couple of years - but let me start with one from the night before last:

 

I was putting Zuzu to bed and I set her little nighttime lovey guys up next to the bed rail.

Zuzu:  "I like to lay my guys down."

Mommy:  "Oh, like they're night-night?"

Zuzu:  "No, like they're dead!"

 

Should I be worried?

This picture has nothing to do with the post, but isn't it adorable?  I took this at my parents house this summer.

Happy Halloween, a day late

We hope you all had a Happy Halloween.

Ours was good, with the exception of the costume crisis we had about a minute before leaving the house for Trick-or-Treating.  The kids were running around the house like crazy people and Alison ripped half of her butterfly wing off on a doorknob - it set us back a few minutes.  Gail and Chris were trying to fix it with a hot glue gun and some duct tape.  I eventually found a spare set of wings (Ali pointed out that they did not match her costume) but it was good enough to get us all out the door. 

We added a few more houses this year and for the most part the kids were pretty good with manners, remembering to say "trick-or-treat" and "thank you".  Not surprisingly, Zuzu was overheard saying "Can I have more?" at one of the houses.  She said it was because she wanted a different kind, and I assured her that no matter what you just say "thank you" and move on.  "But I wanted a green one and I didn't get a green one."  It's so hard to talk to this child sometimes.  Also noteworthy was when she was given a bag of chips at one house and said "in Spanish I call these Baritos".  So silly

Happy Birthday Grandma

Happy Birthday Mom.  We all love you so much.

And we miss you too.

Love your girls

First Day of 1st Grade!

Here she is very excited and with a gap tooth smile.

And at school, not as excited but only because she has to say goodbye for the day. 

If you were wondering about the skimpy outfit, it's supposed to be very HOT here today - in the 90s with high humidity, yuck!

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

Here is Zuzu's version of the song:

Have a jolly happy Christmas

Best time of da year

Don't know so

Let's be so

Couple of chairs

A Much Needed Update

I'll just skip ahead a wee bit from the last post - gotta start somewhere.

Alison started Kindergarten this year.  It's ALL DAY, 5 days a week, she loves it but is exhausted when she gets home.  Here she is on her first day.

Meanwhile, Zuzu is enjoying her time at home with Mommy.  Here she's practicing to be a 1950's housewife - if only she had some pearls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Halloween, the girls were a ghost and a bat - no princesses here.  However, I had to make the costumes - they don't sell such simple things in the stores, because what idiot can't make a ghost costume, all you need is a sheet and a pair of scissors, right?  Well I refused to cover up my adorable daughters' face so I made things a little more difficult for myself.

Then earlier this month our little Zuzu turned 3 years old.  How do the years keep flying by?  She had a great little party with lots of kids and even Grandma and Grandpa were here.  Here she is looking quite grown up - she wanted her hair braided like Ali's.

While my parents were here we also made our traditional visit to the Mall of America to see the real Santa - 6 years in a row with the same guy!

Now we're just counting down the days until Christmas.  The girls are so excited and so am I.  Merry Christmas everyone!

Happy Mother's Day

We love you so much.

 

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there.

Alison Lost Her First Tooth!

Alison lost her first tooth last night at dinner.  It's been wiggly for a while and now 2 weeks before her 5th Birthday she looses a tooth!!!  Here is her proud toothless grin.

The Tooth Fairy left her a dollar in quarters,a new toothbrush and let her keep her tooth.

Happy Easter