Fighting the January Blahs

This is what we are doing. How about you?

Sleep..zzz...

This is where Eliza thinks she's supposed to sleep. In my bed, halfway on top of me. It's not working for me anymore so we have decided to start trying to get her to sleep through the night.

So we moved her bed into a room by herself (so she can't wake up Ian.) We are also cutting off all her "gogurt" (vanilla yogurt + milk in a Nuby cup) at night which she was fond of drinking about three cupful per night. She was eating so much at night she was hardly eating any food in the day! The first few nights were the worst listening to her scream. Mike would go into comfort her but she wouldn't be comforted. But last night FINALLY she slept 9:00-5:45! I was so happy to get up with her at 5:45 and get her breakfast because she had slept in her own bed with no gogurt! I'm hoping she makes it until 6:30 tomorrow! It's hard to listen to her scream but it will be better for her in the long run, right?

Merry Christmas Kids

I tried to take a nice picture of the kids this morning because they looked so Christmasy.

This was the best one I got... Eliza REFUSED to stand anywhere near Ian for some reason.

Mostly I got pictures like this....

and this.

But I love them anyways.

Imagination

Ian's favorite days of the week are the days I babysit. His imagination really comes alive when playing with his friends. On Friday Ian and "C" first had fun playing football. Like their helmets? Then they played gnome hunting with light sabers for about 45 minutes. Then fished with the light sabers. Then jumped on their imaginary brooms and became witches hunting little children. They chased the little girls all over the house riding their brooms and poked them with their brooms whenever they caught them. Ian kept shouting..."C, I smell children!"