Merry Christmas!

Evelyn didn't anticipate Christmas this year but we had a great time the day of! She woke up to find santa's crumbs everywhere and had a great time eating the cookies for breakfast (I can already tell that this is not going to be my favorite tradition, cookie crumbs are everywhere. After that she dug into the presents. my favorite memories of the morning

Evelyn would put the scraps of wrapping paper in the box provided (we gave her a box so that we would not have to wait for her to run to the trashcan every time she tore a piece off.

When she missed the box she would say "oopse I miss" and reach for the piece often falling over (from sitting) and continued to reach for the box while lying down to throw the paper in.

After opening an outfit from grandma she immediately sat down and started to put the pants on.

After opening clothing for William she would gently place it on his belly and say "baby's" before moving on with the exception of one outfit where she said mine and hugged it!

A secound showing.

Tomorrow one of the two people that looked at the old house are going back through. this is a good sign (though not a guarantee). I continue to try not to get my hopes up but it is hard not to at least hope that soon we will find someone who wants the house. It does seem like we have been wanting to sell it forever but it has only been on the market for a few days. Lets keep our fingers crossed!

Tonight Jason will go to the old house to get more of the stuff out of the house and clean a little. I hope we have a good night.

It's beginging to feel a lot like Christmas!

Today we dressed up the kids and took them to meet Santa! we talked it up to Evelyn as much as we could and I have been reading Elmo's night before Christmas to her in hopes that we would not have screaming again like we did last year (though the pictures are priceless!) As you can see Evelyn was not too sure again about Santa and was not so happy on his lap but I think we got an ok picture out of her and William did great. Unfortunately I got in the way so that we were unable to get a picture of just William and Santa but I am hoping that we can try again on Christmas Eve. We shall see if we have the time.

After the trip to the mall which Evelyn seemed to enjoy we went to the tree farm down the street and picked up our Christmas tree! I told Jason that we would just get a small one - somehow they always look smaller at the lot than they do in the house :).

William's first day.

Today was William's first day at daycare and I'm sure he did better than I did. I brought in one of the swaddling blankets and he went to sleep with out a problem. He was a happy and cheerfull baby all day.

Back to work

Today was my first day back to work. It was not as bad as it was with Evelyn but I am still working on being happy to be there. It was an interesting day to say the least. There have been lots of changes in the last three months not the least of which is my job title and description. the change in my job has been coming or at least talked about since my hire date so although it is not a surprise it was rather sudden.

It was good to see everyone though trying to get organized was difficult and I still have a ton of e-mails to go through. Monday I hope to get to the swing of things and start looking at my new job and what I will have to do and what I will want to do with the position. one thing is certain I will need to learn access. though I am thinking I will practice at home maybe with my recipies I would love to get them organized it's just a mater of time.

Going back

Tomorrow I go back to work and I'm just not ready. Having Evelyn home yesterday and part of today (J didn't want her home the whole day due to the pending arrival of our new washer and dryer.) made me think that maybe I could stay home and be a good mommy. Though I'm not sure I would ever manage the good house wife part. Still I am getting better at cleaning as I go and have made progress.

At any rate mom and dad take care of William tomorrow and though I know he is in good hands he will not be in my hands.