Grayson's girlfriend

So Grayson has a little girlfriend at school. When he first told me I thought it was cute. Then he started talking about her everyday. Then came this conversation. "Mom, today Sarah gave me a pres.... never mind (present)." Grayson likes to say he has a present for me and  then give me a hug and kiss, so I knew where this was going.  So I asked, "did she give you a hug?" 

"yes."

"Did she give you a kiss?"

"yes."

"Where?"

He then points to his mouth. 

"On the lips?"

"Yes."

"Did you like it?"

"Yes."

So now this changes everything.  Luckily we had this conversation on our way to have lunch with Jared. I told Jared to deal with it. Jared told him he couldn't kiss girls on the lips that were his age. I was thinking great so he can kiss all the seven and five year olds he wants. Grayson agreed and told us the next day that he kissed Sarah on the hand instead of the lips. 

I know most kids have harmless boyfriends and girlfriends at this age but I didn't want him obsessing over some girl at school and forgetting about all his guy friends.  Everyday he would talk endlessly about this Sarah it was really annoying. 

A couple weeks later Sarah had a birthday and invited Grayson. It was again all he talked about all week counting down the days and hours till he could go.  It was a drop off party so who knows what happened. When I picked him up he told me that he and Sarah kept hiding so they could kiss. He told me "We didn't want anyone to see us." I can't believe I am dealing with this.  

Things have slowed down the last couple of weeks he started talking about Sarah less and less. He hasn't talked about her in a few days. I did ask him if Sarah was still his girlfriend and he said yes. I hoping he has moved onto playing superheroes with his guy friends again.

His teacher sent this picture home from school the other day. I hope they aren't like this all day at school.

 

Celebrating Christmas!

GETTING OUR TREE

Last week we finally got our tree. It was an interesting experience. There was fresh powder on the mountain side, so I wasn't able to climb up and pick the tree. Instead I stood at the bottom yelling back and forth with Jared. Apparently all  the trees I wanted were way to big. In the end we just picked one close to the bottom,so we could get out of Schuster before dark. 

Shelly was so nice to care for the kids who were freezing to death.

When got home Jared and I had a little argument on weather to trim the top or bottom of the tree off. I decided to compromise and let him cut the bottom  off.  When he brought what was left of the tree in we both started laughing. It was the tallest charlie brown tree you'd ever seen. Luckily we got Jared's mom a tree as well. So we switched her and I didn't have to cry because Jared ruined my tree.  The other tree was a little skinny as well, but still looks pretty when all is said and done.  Next maybe we'll actually pick our tree in the fall, so we don't have as many problems. 

THE NUTCRACKER

I've been waiting for years for Lydia to be old enough to go to the nutcracker.  She did really well. She only got restless at the end, when she started saying "this is boring," over and over again.  We all enjoyed a fun snowy afternoon to lunch and the theater.

CHOCOLATES!

This last week was chocolate week. We had a lot of fun this year making chocolates until the last day when we were all sick of chocolate and annoyed with each other. We also really missed having Tami with us. She dipped all of her chocolates after Thanksgiving before heading back to Georgia. It just wasn't the same without her. Hopefully next year we can work it out so we can do them all together.

This is what Kate looked like the whole week every morning I wondered weather it was worth it to put her in clean clothes.  We gave her one bite of chocolate on the first day and she spent the rest of the week crying for more. As you can see we gave in more than we should have. She's been on detox since we finished. 

Lydia loved doing her Christmas program at school. I love that her school puts on an old fashioned school program.  I love that she goes to a private school where they can not only say the word Christmas but sing songs like Silent Night. How refreshing. She did a great job learning her lines and singing all the songs.

SANTA:

I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of this guy this year.  We've already seen him twice and I know we'll see him a few more times before Christmas. Kate wasn't a big fan as you can see.