Mr. Pouty Pants

Lest you think that Life With Xander is all laughs and silliness, I took these pics last night to show the other side. Mr. Drama King.

So, Xander got ten tons of candy on Halloween. He's been eating a little of it. Joe and I have had some too. Last night Joe made the mistake of pawing through the candy dish in front of Xander, who promptly went on the defensive. "You can't eat my candy!!" Of course, he's been steadily eating Daddy's fudge round cookies, but let's not go there.

When Xander's accusations didn't change the fact that Joe was eating the candy, we got this:

And of course I felt the need to take some pictures. That's when we got this:

Luckily, Xander's blow-ups only last a few minutes. Afterwards he was fine, and joking around with everyone again. These are the days of our lives!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Happy Birthday to my mom, who turns 56 today! (pay no attention to the dorky haircut)

And Happy Veteran's Day to our servicemen everywhere!!

Xander's First Assembly

Xander had a Veteran's Day assembly at school today. Eli was kind enough to pick me up and take me, since Joe was working and had the car. I didn't want to miss Xander's first assembly, since he would be singing.

It was long, but I cried through almost the whole thing. (I swear I have early-onset menopause!) There was a speaker who had served in the Vietnam War, the story behind the playing of Taps, and an explanation of what each fold of the flag means when it gets folded into a triangle. The elementary classes sang two patriotic songs accompanied by the high school band. It was really, really nice.

Let's Catch Up!

Okay, this is going to be a long post! I was out of work for several days - my mom came to visit, and before that we had a huge snow storm and our first snow day of the year. In fact, we lost power at our house for two days and were camping out at Eli and Krissy's (thanks, guys, for putting us up...and putting up with us!). This put a severe crimp in my house cleaning plans. And sadly we lost two of our fish.

By the time Mom came in on Thursday, our power was back on and the apartment was mostly clean. I did go to work for a little while on Friday, because there was a Halloween breakfast and mom got a chance to visit with some of her old work friends. Then she went with Eli to watch his kids march in the Jefferson parade while Joe and I went to Xander's school to see his first parade. Too cute! We regrouped at Eli's house to see the kids in their costumes before taking mom back and going trick or treating. (Xander got enough candy to fill 2 bowls! Crazy!)

On Saturday we had an early birthday party for Mom at Eli's house. There were presents, Mickey Mouse ears, and the Pioneer Woman's apple dumplings - yum! Mom stayed overnight there, and I picked her up on Sunday for some shopping and lunch out with Xander and I. Saturday night was back to Eli's for BBQ.

Monday was a low-key day. I went in to work for a couple of hours to take care of some things that just couldn't wait, then we watched movies at home. Mom and I fell asleep on the couch in the middle of Ghostbusters. Pretty sad. Yesterday Krissy, Mom, Aislin and I went out for lunch, and then we took Mom to the airport. She got back to Florida at 10pm.

It was a great visit and I miss her already! Hopefully next year we'll be able to go to Florida to visit her for a change. Fingers crossed!