lottie sue screamed at santa, matt had a birthday & the conchords are back

Lottie Sue met Santa last weekend and it didn't go very well. There was kicking, screaming and crying involved.

we gave her a cookie before going up, but that didn't help at all

i was holding back laughter, does that make me a bad mommy?

Children's Hospital Rehab Center (those peeps are near and dear to us) hosted the Holiday Party with Santa. Lottie Sue's physical therapist, Deidre (love her), helped Santa pick out the perfect gift for Lottie Sue - a baby doll! LS was crying and when I took her off Santa's lap I said "thank you" and she screamed "DAY YOUUUU" (her thank you) to him - it was hilarious. At least she has manners.

these photos are of ls after we stopped her beeline
toward the mountain of stuff animals - she was MAD

Here she is opening her present, she got very excited when she saw the baby doll.

thank you santa (and deidre)!

Matt celebrated his 35th birthday last Sunday (whoa, somebody is O-L-D...). Just kidding...not. I have no room to talk as we are only a month apart. But Matt will ALWAYS be older than me. Hee.

lottie sue helps her dad open his birthday gift

Matt made a special birthday dinner for himself (me no cook) that started out with his delicious french onion soup. It's the best I've ever had - YUM.

ooh la la

And here are a few random photos of Little Miss for your enjoyment...I must mention that Lottie Sue is just a wonderful little girl. She is so sweet and funny, this kid has a lot of spunk.

our happy happy kid

And here she is climbing on some of her Christmas presents.

yee haw!

OK, time for me to do some type of house something. Lottie Sue woke up at 5am (why oh why) and I've been quite slow today. I am way impressed that I got this post out. I hope it's not full of typos, if so I'll have to fix when my brain is working again. This Friday night we have the annual Mowrer Pajama Party Christmas and I am WAY excited. We eat Gramma's delicious homemade pizze and we'll play games, then the next morning we're doing presents and croissants (did you order yours???) It's going to be a BLAST!

I leave you with the premiere of Flight of the Conchord's second season. This show kerrrr-acks me up.