Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Meals on Wheels

Have no fear, more Christmas posts to come. But first, a post solely dedicated to our neighbors' gift to Pearl. They have outdone themselves once again. Her own 4-wheeler. I didn't mention the play food and Leap Frog books they also gave her. Ridiculous, I know. It made our photo book we gave them look pretty lame but I sure hope they know how much we love and appreciate them! She had no clue what was coming. David and Vickie, well mostly David, barely made the wait until Christmas. You see, they bought this a long time ago. They actually bought a red 4-wheeler but when they heard Pearl wanted a pink one, they went out and bought a second one. They are crazy in love with this kid!


The kid has way too much of her father in her. By 5, she'll be flying off ramps, trails, and doing "bagels" as she calls spinning doughnuts. I fear the worst by the time she is 16. Actually, I was quite impressed at how well she can steer. We will be setting a few rules though... like always wearing your helmet, only staying in the backyard (we had a slight incident with running off the sidewalk into the road), no crashing on purpose anyway, and no hitting it into reverse with your foot on the gas. Jeff had a hard time convincing her to take a break and come back inside for more gift opening. Cole was squealing with delight every time his sister zoomed (at 5 mph) past... minus having to wear his hat. She loved it. I guess it was a good thing we didn't get a white Christmas so she could drive around the yard all day. Oh and if you're wondering why I dubbed this post, "Meals on Wheels" well, last night we took dinner over to our other neighbors and Pearl drove her new toy. I jokingly told Tiff, it was a "meals on wheels" delivery!

Monday, December 27, 2010

Do the Dew

Should I be frightened that Cole takes after me more than I thought? Apparently cravings during pregnancy do have long term effects.

The kid crawled for a Mt. Dew tonight. This video was re-created after we watched him army crawl himself over to my Mt. Dew in about 2.5 seconds. We thought it was so funny (and awesome that he was finally pulling himself with his arms instead of just pushing himself with his tippy toes) that we ran for the video camera and tried to get him to crawl again. I figured if he would crawl for a soda, he'd certainly get excited and crawl to just me. I was wrong. So we put the Mt. Dew back on the stool and drug him back over by the tree. He wasn't too happy that his previous efforts weren't rewarded with a sugar-loaded, unhealthy beverage so he stopped about halfway to it the second time around.

Too bad for Cole and our nation's obesity epidemic I didn't crave carrots when I was pregnant.