Since I haven't posted anything this month, I am just going to do one big collective post! The girls, my mom and I got in the car the morning after Halloween to go up to Chicago to visit our family for a week and to see my grandparents for their anniversary, and we had a really good time seeing everyone and staying in our hotel with an indoor pool, which the girls loved (of course)! I jotted down a few funny stories from our trip to put on here:
I am just going to go in the order I wrote them down - starting with the hotel phone. Meredith was amazed with the hotel phone that had a cord. She spent a good chunk of time running around the room picking up and then hanging up the phone, just to run back a few seconds later saying "Somebody callin' me! Somebody callin'" (and most of the time it was Daddy....I think it's kind of rude that he has all this time to talk to her during the day and not me....just kidding, honey! :) Anyway, she had her purse of the week (which was a gift bag from the Halloween treats her cousins Kailey and Maddie gave her) and the first day we got over to my grandma's house, I found the receiver of the hotel phone in her purse. We just laughed....and then I went out and bought her a corded phone of her own later that week so I wouldn't owe the hotel a new one!
We also got to have something up there that we usually aren't able to get: Chick-fil-A. It had just opened the week before we got there, so of course, we had to go! A side note: it was pretty funny, because my dad got there and put in his order for extra well done strips, and one of the guys who was working in the kitchen came out to see who was ordering that, because there was only one person he knew of who ordered his chicken that way....and it happened to be a manager who works at our Chick-fil-A in Canton who was helping to open that store. Only my dad...
Anyway, Melanie and Meredith were thrilled to have their indoor playground, and Melanie made all sorts of friends. She was playing in there for about an hour, and came out saying that this one little girl was going to call her to have a playdate sometime soon and asked me if that was okay....it was so sweet I didn't have the heart to tell her that we lived 700 miles away!
Ahhhh....on to the ghost at my grandparents' house. It took me about 4 days up there to figure out why Meredith kept pointing to the wall and saying, "Ghost! Ghost!" (It was kind of starting to freak me out a little....) But it turns out she was just talking about this ceramic wall hanging (that's painted white) of Mary and Jesus. I tried to explain that it wasn't a ghost, but she was convinced otherwise, and all I could do was laugh (which is pretty much why my kids think they can do whatever they want because they are so darn funny, I can't help but laugh!! Oh well....)
I think I may have created a monster. A cleaning monster, that is....Melanie now gets an allowance every week if she helps me pick up around the house. Well, when we were on vacation, she took it to a new extreme, taking baby wipes out of my bag at Portillo's and wiping down all the tables, the counters, the floor, etc. So when Meredith saw her sister doing that, she wanted to, too!! So while we sat there are talked with Grandma, my girls cleaned the restaurant. I got some weird looks, but they weren't screaming or fighting, and when we go out to dinner, the lack of screaming is a successful trip out to me!
We spent one morning at the mall....it was me, my mom, Lulu, Melanie, Meredith, my cousin Kate and her two girls, Kailey and Maddie, my cousin Nicole, her husband Damian, and their baby girl Teagan. So it was quite the group! We took all the girls to the bathroom together at one point, which in itself was an adventure. On the way back to the food court, all the little girls held hands with Kate holding on to the train, or the whip, as it looked liked. The girls were whipping themselves around so much that people were dodging us as we walked past! I think my favorite part of the trip to the mall had to be the Perry the Platypus hats I found at the Disney Store. They have little braids coming down the sides, and the top looks like Perry's face!!! (Perfect for my girls!) They also conned Mom Mom out of Perry pillows and blankets for the trip home. Meredith also began shouting out "Blah blah blah...curse you Perry the Platypus!!" (We still can't figure out what she was trying to say with the blah blah blah part of that, but it was cute).
Possibly my favorite part of this trip: when Melanie and Meredith were "chuting the aminals" at Anne and Jim's house. That is what Melanie called throwing beanie babies down the laundry chute to Uncle Jim. "Chuting the aminals." Where does she get this imagination from?? I hope she never loses it!! I called her a smart cookie, which Meredith promptly turned in to "Mal's a fart cookie!" Lovely, Mere....just lovely. That same night we went back to the hotel and I took the girls to the pool, and they wanted to swim in the hot tub. Melanie informed me that we "need to remind Daddy to get us a hot tub when we get home." She then asked me how much hot tubs cost, and I told her I really didn't know. She said that they probably cost about 38 dollars, and she didn't want Daddy spending so much money like that.
The last night we were up there we were all over at my grandparents' again and Meredith was the star of the show that night. She told everyone that "I need ass" (which in Meredith-ese is "I need ice") and "I want a dick" which means "I want a drink." She also found where we hid the lollipops on the piano, climbed on the inch of piano bench that was accessible, and reached over all the breakable stuff to get her lollipop, and she did this in front of about 7 adults, not even caring about getting in trouble....she was a girl on a mission! (I think she kind of floored Nicole and Damian, because honestly, I don't know if I would have even noticed her doing this if they hadn't because she did it so quickly!)
On our last night there we took the girls to the hot tub one last time, and on the way back, we filled up the cooler so Meredith could have her "babas" in the morning. Melanie had taken it upon herself to become the ice princess that week, and loved using the ice machine. Well, Melanie filled the cooler, and then went running down the hall with the cooler and spilled the entire cooler of ice and water all over the hallway. She started cleaning up, picking up one ice cube at a time and running it down to our room, and then going back. She did this probably 50 times, and when I went to go get more ice in the cooler, Meredith decided to help, but she had already taken her bathing suit half off and was running through the halls half naked. We raise them with class!!!
Well, our trip home was uneventful, which was a very good thing. Meredith moved into her big girl "ca car bed" on November 11, and she has been doing pretty well sleeping in there....I took apart the crib, which was a sad day, but that's ok. Meredith has a new favorite phrase, "There's a stick in my bum" which really means, "There's a snake in my boot" from Toy Story. Then she adds, "Get out my butt!" As I said before, CLASSY!! She also can't say the word "frog"....it comes out "fuck". "Icky fuck, Mommy, Icky fuck!" She also can't see a Florida Gator or Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket without announcing "Icky gators! Icky lellow dackets!" She has also started trying to say "Melanie" but it keeps coming out "Lemony."
We are just getting ready for Christmas now! The girls want either a princess car or a horsey car (a Mustang) so we will see if they have been good enough this year to get it! Gary is back keeping an eye on everything and hopefully giving Santa good reports on everyone!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Halloween



Whew....November flew by....Halloween was a month ago already, but I couldn't let it go by without mentioning my ca car and my Jessie! They had a blast trick or treating....Meredith was a little leery at first, but once she realized that she got candy, she was all for it! There was one house that left their candy on the porch for he kids to take one, and Melanie walked up and took one. Meredith came up behind her and took one, then two, then three, then four, and I said, "That's enough." She looked up at me, took 2 more and said "All done!" She really is my kid! When we left to go home, she looked at me and said, "We go trick or treating again tomorrow night??" They were so sweet and so cute!!
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