Christmas Program

I have a confession to make - I hate to cry in public. I mean, I deplore it. I don't think there is anything wrong with it...for other people. I just hate it when I do it. I do not think it is a sign of weakness. I do not think there is anything bad about it at all. I just really don't like when it happens to me. And, for all of my adult life I have teared-up whenever watching the children sing at our church, or on TV, or wherever. For some reason, children make me get all weepy.

So, as you can imagine, I have been greatly looking forward to the day when my own children would be the ones I am watching so that at least when I get all bleary-eyed people wouldn't think I am crazy. And, today was that day.

Kyrie did an awesome job singing in her preschool Christmas program. She sang almost the entire time, did most of the hand motions when she was supposed to and only got a little wild while everyone was clapping. She received her very own round of laughter when she sang one part very loudly. That part is what I have posted above. (I don't know if you will need to turn your sound up or not, but it is near the end of the clip.) As you may have guessed, I got quite the amount of tears in my eyes, but luckily had the video camera to hide them.

Bakin' Cookies

Priceless

Christmas Tree: $100
Star-Topper: $20
Home-made Ornament (a gift from my daughter): Priceless

Loco

Today I was talking with Kyrie about how sometimes I feel like I am going crazy.

"Are you crazy?", I said.
"Mommy, when you close your eyes do you see a TV?", was her response.

Uhhhhhhh....yeah, I think we are all going crazy. To add to my craziness I decided to go to the doctor this morning and got the confirmation that I have a sinus infection. Big bummer, but thank God for antibiotics. If I have to live much longer with this headache, you really are going to have to put me into the loony bin (is that how you spell loony?).

If I have a chance I will post some adorable photos of baking Christmas cookies today. I think that at least 16 dozen cookies were churned out today. Wow! Uncle Jim and my mom are machines.

Takin' it in Stride

Chef Lariska

Yesterday, after a harried journey to the pediatrician, we found out that Lariska has pink eye (in both eyes) and an ear infection (in one ear). Lariska has had a runny nose and cough for going on something like four weeks now, but has been sleeping like a trooper and in fine spirits. On Wednesday, however, she developed gook in her eyes and since her cousins Jackson and Tyler and Uncle Dan all got pink eye the previous weekend we decided it was time to make a call to the ped. Since Lariska is under two they were not willing to give us a prescription for the drops over the phone, and a good thing, too because otherwise we would not have known about her ear infection - the very thing they wanted to screen her for. Unfortunately, our pediatrician is all the way out in Hales Corners and the traffic was horrendous. I am a little bit disappointed, since this is Lariska's first ear infection, but I do think it is pretty good that she made it to 19 months without one. (Kyrie has only ever had two.) So, I guess overall we are fairly fortunate so far concerining the ears. Lariska is hanging in there and taking this all in stride. She is a sweet child....when she is not being sassy.

Photos from the week