Heiner Christmas

Instead of exchanging gifts, we all went to the Really Big Christmas show at Second Baptist.  It was a little over the top for my taste.  I would have preferred a litlte more Baby Jesus and a little less Whoville on Crack.  Nonetheless, it was nice to be together snap some Christmas pictures. 

 Second Baptist has a really cool, really large train display with this snow bubble.  I misjudged the size of my behind and bonked my booty backing out of this thing with a toddler in tow.  In front of a million people.  But oh well, this cute picture was worth the public humiliation. 

Weekend in West Palm Beach

Neal had a work meeting in Florida in December and I was able to tag a long for a quick weekend getaway.  Something special about Christmastime at the beach.  Especially a nice beach with pretty water and no stinky seaweed.  

Christmas Happenings

Our annual trip to Zoo Lights.  She talked about this for days.  "I like zoo lights. Zoo lights pretty."

Our church did a children's event with a Superhero theme.  

Music and dancing were right up her alley. 

They had the cutest photo booth complete with snow.  

Several nights after dinner, we walked down to one of the cul-de-sacs to see our buddy Frosty. 

Tis the Season

We started the Christmas season with decorating.  We went to Lowe's Thanksgiving weekend to get our very real tree and left with this sad little Black Friday special.  I'm still not exactly sure how Neal talked me in to it.  It served it's purpose but I surely had "real tree withdrawals" the whole month.  Audrey did enjoy the lights going back and forth from colored to clear. 

We decorated her little kitchen in her room.  She loved having the lights in her room and there's something special about falling asleep looking at Christmas lights.   

I've saved photo Christmas cards for the past 4 years and it was fun to go back and look at the pictures of our favorite families.

Neal was a sport and hung each light on the house, perfectly spaced.  Every year, I try to talk him into doing the windows for a gingerbread house look, but I haven't won that one yet.  

We also had a little elf who helped us this year.  She was really good and putting each of these bulbs on the lights.  

We had a little fun with our Elf on the Shelf.  The beauty of a 2 year old is that the elf only moved about 3 times the whole month.  

And a few bonus pictures just because she's cute. 

Halloween~Better Late than Never

Thanksgiving in Corpus

Head Lice

I was fixing Audrey's hair for school the Tuesday before Thanksgiving when i noticed bugs crawling in her hair.  I really couldn't believe it but there was no doubt that we had our first case of head lice.  I knew it was inevitable that she would get it at some point, especially being a girl with long hair.  Just didn't expect her to get it as a two year old. 
Unfortunately, I've had several friends who have gotten lice from their students and knew about The Lice Place.  Whoever invented this is a genius (and probably a millionaire since it's $99/hour for treatment!)
She looks really unhappy in this picture but she was actually mesmorized by the movie that was playing.  She chatted with the technician during the treatment.  These ladies were amazing and I'm pretty sure I would not have been able to get her to sit still for 45 minutes at home.
The special comb wasn't picking up all the nits so the lady had to use tweezers to get all of them.  I learned more about head lice than I ever cared to.


On a semi related note, Audrey has been having allergic reactions and breaking out in hives lately.  One trip to the doctor and one to urgent care.  As the lady was picking out the bugs, she mentioned that sometimes lice saliva can get into the bloodstream and cause reactions.  If that doesn't make you want to barf, I don't know what will!