The boys' 1st movie

I did it...
I was finally brave enough to venture to the movie theater with both the boys to see a movie that I thought we all would enjoy. What prompted this? Well, I saw that my favorite furry monsters, the Muppets, were releasing a new movie. I heart the Muppets. I loved the early movies of theirs and thought this would also be a hit. I checked out the reviews and saw nothing that I would object letting my little ones watch.

I then checked to see when there was a local showing of The Muppets at a matanae time that wasn't during Tam's nap time. (This is no small feat). I stumbled onto a local theater that provides mom showings of movies. This means that once a week around 10am, they show a kids movie with the lights only dimmed and the sound not as loud. Mom's are encouraged to come to this showing and wee ones running around is expected to occur. Excellent. I packed the diaper bag, bundled up the kiddos, dropped Brian and work, and headed out on the new adventure.

How did it go? Here's a hint... we started the movie with about 2 dozen people in our theater room and we ended with about 8 (3 of these were us). Tamlin did pretty good for trying to sit still and pay attention to a 2 hour movie. He sat in his booster seat and ate his popcorn for about half of the movie. Then, he got squirrelly and had to get up and talk / play / dance with the other kids in the room. Jude watched the movie from my lap for a bit, then conked out (it was his early nap time.)

When asked afterwards if he liked the movie adventure, Tamlin said "Oh yeah" . . . but he really couldn't tell you much about it except there was a frog in it.
Cute.

Shoppin = done / Crafts to do

Black Friday...Lots of sales for the kick off of the Christmas shopping season. This year with dealing with 2 small kids, I totally opted to the majority of my shopping on-line instead of at brick and mortar stores. This saved me a ton of headaches and tantrums (Tam's and mine). At this point I am pretty sure that I am 85% done.

Now I just have to wait for them to arrive on my doorstep then wrap them.

Oh...and I still have all the crafts I want to do to finish...sometime between now and Christmas eve.

Happy Shopping!

Hypothetically Speaking

It a couple of quiet moments during our decorating the house for Christmas excitement, Brian and I shared the following conversation ...

Me: If it ever came down to it, I would replace our awesome pre-lit with white LCD lights Christmas tree with a cool pink tree.

Brian: What?!

Me: You know, one of those aluminum colored trees, in pink.

Brian: What?! Really, Pink?!

Me: Yeah...Kinda retro

Brian: Could we compromise with a purple tree? A dark purple tree?

Me: Maybe. What about red, bright Christmas red?

Me: Ooohhh...Silver. What about a silver tree?

Brian: I could live with silver

Me: There we go, are next artificial tree will be a silver tree. Awesome.

Brian: Aren't you glad we discussed this now for future reference! Good to know we have at least one more hypothetical decision made!

I'm totally excited for this silver tree that we may someday own in the future :-)

Mom & Tam moments

Tam and I had a couple of sweet moments today...

I have just dusted off the ol' sewing machine and started stitching some up-coming Christmas gifts. My first attempt was a partial fail because 50% into the project I ran out of black thread AND realized I didn't have a black zipper.

I went on to project #2. After Jude goes to sleep, Tam and I have about an hour before he gets into bed. While he was racing cars, I began the project and succeeded in cutting out all of the fabric. Then, over walks Tamlin.

"Help you, momma?"
I think about it...can a 3 year old sew?... sure! Why not?
I gathered him up on my lap in front of the machine. He loved watching the needle go up and down...then I let him hit the back-sewing button. He found a new love.
Then, I let him actually feed the fabric through the machine.
Ecstatic!
And he loved helping momma :-)

In the end, someone is getting some itty-bitty doll clothes that are partially sewn by a 3 year old!

Moment #2: Early in the day, I had measured Tam's head for a new monster hat that I making for Christmas. He's helping with the details like eye number and teeth and horns.

This evening before bed, Tam grabs the tape measure and had to "measure" me too.

And then measure his cars, as well :-)

Made my heart sing