Happy Solstice!!!

Tonight our little family celebrated the Solstice by going out for dinner and then coming home and opening presents.

Leo opened his first gift, from Flora, she even picked it out.  It was a wooden drum.
Flora really had fun opening presents, but Leo was still a little unsure what to do and what all the excitement was about.  Oh, well, this can be a practice run for his birthday! :o)
Flora got Candy Land, Princess dominoes, utensils, and cup, a crayon maker and, her favorite, a 16" Dorothy doll.  She was so excited when she opened Dorothy, he jumped up and down!

Leo got a helicopter, a alphabet bus, a wooden drum, a shaker, and a train set.  They both got matching monkey PJ's and a fridge magnet that plays the letters of the alphabet.
Hope you all had a nice Solstice.  We look forward to seeing some of you soon!

As Promised...

Here's that picture of Leo's new tooth I promised.

(it's the one on the right)

I also made a December slideshow, put more pictures in the Autumn 2009 album, and moved it to the bottom of the albums section.

I know I said the kids didn't really need anything, but Flora has been really into wearing dresses lately.  She thinks she's Cinderella.  The thing is all the dresses she has are short-sleeved or sleeve-less.  So, if you should find yourself at a thrift store, maybe you could find her some long-sleeved dresses in a 3T?  She also wanted to wear overalls today because Leo was and we found out she has one pair that barely fit her.  She would wear a 3T in these, too.  Maybe some that Leo could wear later? :)

  We have a busy weekend ahead of us.  Tomorrow we're going to Manitowoc for the Lichterman Family Christmas Party and on Sunday we're going to DePere/Ledgeveiw area for The Brantmeier Family Dinner.  Next weekend we have nothing planned, except for sticking around home and getting ready for Solstice and x-mas, since we aren't even close to being done buying/making presents, much less wrapping them.  I guess we better get on that!  Now that Tom is home from Mexico, we can.

He had a nice time, by the way, aside from getting "Montezuma's Revenge", his flight home from Phoenix to Denver cancelled, having to fly into Chicago, then Milwaukee, driving a rental home from there, and getting home at 2 a.m.  Oh, yeah, and his luggage didn't make it out of Chicago and his coat was in it!  Brrrrrr!!!!!!

Have a great weekend!

Oh Boy...

Had enough of the snow yet? I know I have! Tom is in Mexico, so I had to deal with snow removal. It took me two hours to snow blow everything!



(View of the back yard)
Flora had a bout with stomach flu(I guess?). She woke up last night with a yucky mess in her bed and then had dry heaves after that. Poor girl! :(


The last time she did that was 3 a.m. and has kept down a little applesauce, yogurt, crackers, and liquids. She is feeling a little better, but is still a bit feverish.
It's too bad that she got sick on such a snowy day, because she was looking forward to sledding. I guess all this snow isn't going any where any time soon! Maybe Tom will take her this weekend since he's missing out on all this snow.
Leo is feeling better, too. We figured out on Friday that he had an ear infection and got him into the doctor and got him some medicine.
I just realized, about a half hour ago, that he just popped his fourth tooth! He'll have his two front teeth for x-mas!!! ;-D
I'll try to get a picture of it soon...
Stay safe and warm!

Try This, Instead...

Here's a new link for the segment of Good Day WI that we were in:
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/living/green/a-green-christmas
The other one must have changed to today's current "green" topic.

On TV, Again!

Good Day WI was at Mom and Pop(our favorite hang-out) one day.  We managed to make it on TV, again.  Click the link below to check it out!
http://www.fox11online.com/subindex/green