Our sick little girl

Mallory has been sick for the last couple of days. She threw up twice yesterday and has been just lying around a lot. This morning when she got up she said she was all better. She said, "No more medicine, no more talking about throw up, no more trash cans." She is so clever. I just laughed and laughed. She's eating some breakfast now. As one who got thrown up on yesterday, I sure hope she can keep it down! UPDATE: When I went in to the kitchen from writing this post earlier this morning Mallory had thrown up her frosted mini wheats. She is now in bed resting, still sick. Bless her heart. More trash cans today.

Putting up Christmas

We are finally getting our Christmas decorations down and put up. We were in Alabama until January 5 and have just not done a good job of getting it taken care of. I love getting it all out and decorating but it's nice to get things back to normal also. Especially since it's January 14th!

A good day for hot chocolate

Our friend Martha gave Mallory and Michael some cute mugs and delicious hot cocoa mix for Christmas. The kids and I took a walk and came back in from the cold and Mallory said, "let's have some hot cocoa to warm up!" So we broke out the mugs and I let Michael go for it with his own grown up Santa mug. He really did great drinking out of it!

A scary night...

Last night we went to Lexington with our friends John, Tuyen and little Jon. It all started out great. We had pizza at Brooklyn Pizza on Man O War, really yummy pizza and highly recommended! Then we went to Fayette Mall so the kids could play in the play area there. John, Tuyen, Paul and I were all watching the three of them. We kept putting our eyes on them and then I guess we would talk a little because we looked up and Michael was GONE! We had just seen him crawling thru this big bottle and thought he was in there. When we checked again, no Michael. We went running down the mall and people were pointing down the way and saying "he's down there", etc. We found him WAY down the mall with people around him. It was so scary and awful to think of what could have happened to him. One lady chastised us saying, "You guys need to watch him better, I followed him a long way just watching to see what would happen." At first I was kind of offended but she was right.

Football and Barbie

Paul and I are watching the BCS championship game tonight. I decided to straighten up Mallory's Barbies and line them up on the hearth. There are 29 and one still in the box from Christmas.

I thought they could cheer on the Gators... or the Sooners. I keep going back and forth on who I am for. Florida because it's an SEC team and I love that Tim Tebow with his John 3:16 eye things. And Oklahoma because I was born there, went to school at OSU and have lots of family in there. Well, right now they're tied at the half so we shall see...

A neosporin testimonial...

As you may have seen Michael took a nasty spill last week and really scraped up his nose and upper lip. We put neosporin on it several times a day and it worked wonders...

See how much better it is today, just a week and a day later! Sure hope he doesn't have a bad little scar on his nose. Bless his heart.

Michael is 19 months old today. He celebrated by finishing off some Wind and Willow Sante Fe dip with pretzel sticks.

He loved it! Happy 19 months Michael!
For those of you interested in seeing more pictures from our trip to Alabama and my dad's wedding you can by going to the the following link ...
http://picasaweb.google.com/TammyMatte/NewYearTrip0809?feat=email#

Not again.

Every year I drag the kids all over Frankfort to get their picture taken with Santa. All kinds of places do these free shots and I think it's fun to get them in various outfits. Last year we actually did five or six, I think, and on our way to one of the last ones I told Mallory we were on our way to get their picture with Santa and she said, "Not again." Here they are at Coldwell Banker downtown.

This one was taken at a local breakfast with Santa event.

This is the "official Santa pic" of the year and was officially a total rip-off at the mall in Louisville. Below was taken at Commonwealth Credit Union. I kind of think they do it for the children of the credit union members but it's open to the public I guess.