Baby Math

I'm not exactly sure how this face

plus this face

can equal this face. But then again, my math skills are at a 10th grade level.

I wonder what will happen a second time around. We'll all find out May 2011.

Adventing

I finished the advent calendar last night.  Here's 3 weeks of my life.  It took a lot of time but I had fun making it.

The idea came from HomemadeByJill who found it on this Inchmark blog.  But I didn't do all the same ornaments that they did. Mouse ornament? Sick. And I made my car ornament after a Hotwheel car, a Syme family stocking tradition.

I had the idea of buying mini ornaments at the store if I didn't finish in time but technically I just needed to stay ahead of the calendar. But once I started, I discovered some of the ornaments went really fast, like the lights, so I'm done with time to spare.

So now all the ornaments are tucked in their pouches and the calendar is in the closet for another week. I kind of need a break from looking at it.

Here's a post.

I haven't updated the blog in awhile since, as you can see, we've been really busy.  No, she's not sleeping; she's watching the Prince of Egypt.  I've finally gotten Sarah to branch out in her movie watching and it's been weeks since we've watched Mary Poppins.  Yay! This week's movie du jour is the 1972 cinematic gem "Charlotte's Web" or "Piggy movie" as Sarah calls it.

Sarah's birthday was 21 days ago.  These are two of her birthday balloons as of this morning.  I had no idea getting balloons from Macey's was going to be such a long-term commitment.

What do we do other than watching Sarah's balloons die a slow death? Justin has been furiously busy with school.  One more month and he will have his bachelor's all done.  The respite will be short-lived as he starts the graduate program in January but I am proud of him and excited just the same.

I've been working on this awesome and time consuming project of a Christmas advent calendar.  I'll post pictures when it's done but let's just say for now Sarah can't leave it alone--it's that cool.  I'm pretty sure my children will fight over it when I die.

Sarah cracks us up all day, every day.  She says "sorry" and "thank you"  more times a day than I can count.  She is way more polite than I taught her to be.  Sharing is a completely different story. I blame her bad attitude on nursery.

Her Halloween candy is finally gone and I am so relieved.  Candy was the first thing on her mind in the morning and the last thing at night.  She wanted me to sing a song about candy the other night. I was at a loss. 

Here's a little conversation we had:

Sarah: Mom help?
Me: What do you want?
Sarah: Canny.
Me: You want candy? (I was making sure I understood her)
Sarah:   (shrugs shoulders) Sure.

Now that my battery and camera have been reunited, I may be taking more pictures now.  The battery sat in the charger for 3 weeks so we should be good to go. I am soooo excited for Thanksgiving.  I love food.