The Hickeys Come to Visit!

This weekend we had the hickey family come visit.  They have a son that is a month and a day older than P and it is SO fun to watch the babies play.  We hung out on Friday night and the babies opened their presents from each other.  P was spoiled by her boyfriend, as usual.  I made dinner and we just relaxed.  Saturday we woke up and went to the outlet mall.  It was freezing and busy as crap.  We then went downtown to michigan avenue to shop and see the tree.  It was so cold but I had a really good time.  If you remember last christmas P got two american girl dolls (well one was actually for me - read the story on that here.)  I have never been to the american girl doll store so we went.  That place is a little girl's (or my) dream!  It is HUGE and they have a photo studio where you can get your pictures done with your doll.  They also have a hair salon where you can take your doll to get it's hair done.  Not to mention two floors of  dolls and clothes and accessories.  Dustin and I decided that we will start a new tradition for P and buy her a new doll outfit every christmas (and maybe birthday?) so that she will have tons of clothes by the time she is old enough to actually play with her dolls.  So we picked out a cute new outfit for her doll yesterday :)  I am such a kid at heart.  I totally loved that store.

We ended the night with dinner at Cheesecake factory and finnnnalllly made it home way too late.  I am exhausted today.

Here are some pics.  Don't mind my hair and my big frozen smile.

The babies throwing stuff down the stairs.

Neglect

I feel like I am neglecting my blog big time!  All this Christmas prep has me busy, busy, busy.  I think I have everything all done now though.  I'm still waiting for last present to arrive for my little buddy Elyse!  I have everything wrapped up under the tree and gated nicely so P can't destroy anymore of them.  I can't even count the number of presents I had to rewrap before I was smart and gated them up.  If I hadn't gated the tree she probably would have climbed it and would still be sitting at the top.  She is a wild child.  We have all the decorations we are putting up out.  I only put our huge tree and P's small tree up this year.  The other two I was too lazy and had no where to put this year.  With a baby came ALOT of stuff that takes up ALOT of room.  I was going to put the smaller tree in our bedroom but of course, I am lazy.  So....it didn't happen.  Maybe next year!

Today I took P to My Gym to try it out.  We had a really good time and P absolutely loved it but I don't think I want to pay $70 a month to go there (that is for one class a week and one or two free plays).  I found some classes through Fox Valley Park District that I think I will sign her up for.  They are less expensive and I have heard good things about them.  I feel like there isn't much for us to do around here.  Maybe I just don't know where to look but we both enjoy getting out of the house so I need to come up with something.

I think after the holidays I'll be back to blogging more often.  Till then excuse my absence.

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Update!

I swear I never have time to update.  P is constantly on the move.  As I type this I am watching her walk back and forth back and forth across the room.  She loves to pick up everything she can find and walk around with it.  She's carrying two stuffed elephants and a dog toy right now. bahaha.  Crazy girl.

On Tuesday P went for her second flu shot.  I didn't even know she had to have a booster shot for it.  Someone mentioned it and I called the office and they said Oh yeah, she is supposed to come 4 weeks after the first one.  Well that would have been nice to know.  But apparently it is ok to go a little longer so she was fine.  I had to take her alone and hold her down, I hated it but she was a trooper.  The kid didn't even cry.  She made a cry face and then I started talking to her and she she just started talking and smiling.  She is much more brave than myself.

She has been my little christmas helper.  We've been shopping a lot together and she's always so good.  Not so much of a good helper when I am wrapping though.   The tree and presents are now gated since she loves to rip off the bows and stomp on everything too.  Whew.  

The other day something horrible happened here and I didn't even want to talk about it but after I mentioned it to my mommy group and a ton of them had similar stories it made me feel less awful.  I had taken P upstairs and had her in the bathroom with me.  I opened the bathroom door and was dinking around and then realized I had forgot to close the gate at the top of the stairs.  I was literally 3 steps from it and I turned around but it was too late, as I turned I saw P taking the step off.  I think my heart stopped.  It was seriously the worst moment of my life.  BUT luckily she only fell about 5 steps and didn't hit the wall or banister and our stairs are carpeted.  She did flip completely head over heels though and I just thought for sure that her neck was going to break.  I lost it.  I grabbed her up so fast and tried to check her over but she was grabbing on to me so tight I couldn't even pull her off.  She calmed down in about 2 seconds and wanted her goldfish again.  I think she was most upset that she dropped them when she fell.  She didn't have a mark on her.  Thank you Jesus.  I can't get the image of her little scared face falling out of my head.  It has haunted me since it happened.  I hate it.  I know that accidents happen and kids are tough but sweet baby jesus.  I am sure I have grey hairs growing.  I am just so angry with myself.  I always check and double check the upstairs gate because I am terrified of her falling.  All it takes is one time to forget.  Blah.  

Dustin was pretty hard on me about it but I reminded him of the time I saved P from going down the basement stairs when he left the door open.  That shut him up.  He had left the door open and I was in the other room doing things I looked and saw P taking the step off those stairs and I grabbed her before she fell.  That probably would have been a worse outcome had she fallen down those stairs.  Yikes.  

In other news, that same night P fell and busted her head on the table.  She just had a rough day I guess.   I think for Christmas I should probably just get her a helmet.

Here comes santa claus

Last year P didn't meet Santa.  Our pedi told us not to take her because of all the germs and she was so tiny.  I wanted to so bad but Dustin threw a fit sooooo we didnt.  This year I was so excited for her to go!  She got all dolled up in her christmas gear and off we went!

She waited patiently to meet him and flirted with everyone.  She does this new thing where she plays coy and will run over and hide her face in my legs.  When it was her turn the lady elf held her so I could put her bow back on and she was totally fine, laughing and talking.  Once we got up to santa she changed.  I sat with her so she could get warmed up a little bit to him and she pointed at his red suit and gloves and she giggled when he touched her and then hid her face in my chest.  She is silly.  After a few minutes I decided to try to set her on his lap.  She freaked out and started crying.  Luckily another little lady elf got this light up thing and started acting a fool and she stopped crying.  She didn't smile but the pic still came out pretty cute.