Kickin the Queen!

This morning Emily told me her cereal was worth “20 million dollars!!!”. So I figured she needed to learn maniacal laughter to go along with that. Muah ha ha ha! This last weekend we had our first Kickin it with the King since forever ago. It was really fun. We brought Emily along because we are really not into having her in daycare all day and babysat all night. She gets BAD if we do that. REALLY BAD. Ok not really bat, but she gets very testy. Or maybe that’s just cause she’s 2. Anyways Emily seemed to think we were going to “Kick the Queen” not “Kickin it with the King.” You couldn’t have convinced her otherwise. But she really loved it.

So I got a new video game that is taking up much of my free time(which isn’t saying alot). Batman Lego for the Wii. Its really fun. The people who make those games Rock! I have Star Wars Lego which is a 10 on the Courtenay scale of awesomeness. I’d describe how that scale works, but that’d take a whole blog, so no. I got Indiana Jones Lego which is more like a 6 or 7. It was kind of disappointing as far as Lego goes, but I think that’s mainly because they had a great trilogy to work with, but not a great group of memorable characters. Star Wars has oodles of Characters to play with. So now I have Batman Lego too. Also had a ridiculous number of characters. So I think this gets a 10 too. It wouldn’t have gotten a 10 but then I realized that the Bad guys have their own levels and that makes it awesome!! I cant play it while Emily is awake though because she copies too much stuff right now. I had it on for a bit yesterday because I was in serious need of a break, but Emily started hitting stuff and saying “I smash the flowers”. Wow observant much. So anyways this long rant is just to say that these are the trilogy’s that I think should be turned into Lego games. Just in case it gets googled by the makers of lego games and they really want my input!

10 scale games

X-men,
Lord of the Rings
Terminator
Spiderman (but only if you get to play the enemies cause otherwise it’s not 2 player)
Toy Story!!!

7 scale games

Chronicles of Narnia
Pirates of the Caribbean
Mighty ducks!(just kidding)
Princess bride.

5 scale games

Matrix,
Back to the Future
Never ending story

3 Scale games

The Bourne Identity (but only a 3 because it’d be 1 player)

Games I would never get or even play

Gilligan’s island (Boring and unbeatable!)
Harry Potter

Here’s a couple of pics of my lil darling who let me flat iron her hair before church!

Playing with Mommy’s Planter

I can pick the flowers mommy!

Oooh a tree

I Race Cows.

Well Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope you had an awesome Christmas. I totally did!! As usual I got all kinds of great stuff and ate to much and saw loads of family and traveled to much and ate too much…I think I said that already…I’m also on cold medication. Pretty yellow pills that have cold burst when you swallow em. Oodles of Cold FX too. I think that stuff rules. I’m already getting better. Today I can hear out of my ear again. My thoughts are a little scattered still, but I’m glad I’m not feeling like death anymore. That was pretty harsh for Christmas.

We had a wonderful trip to the coast. My Mom is officially my hero. She got Emily a portable DVD player for the car! It was ama-za-zing We had the best trip down with Emily yet. No screaming, almost no crying, less whining and happy mommies and daddies. She watched Baby Einstein Mozart. Loved it. She doesn’t watch TV at home at all so it was an awesome novelty for her. Gotta love novelties. It feels like we were gone for a week, but we were only gone 1 full day. Spent almost as much time driving as in Richmond. Super glad we could get at least that much time off though.

Christmas Morning was so much fun with Emily. We did our stockings before she got up cause we couldn’t wait any longer!! Then she got up and ate her oatmeal. We video-ed her opening her stalking, but decided to enjoy the morning instead of watching it through a camera lens. So we took a few pictures, but mostly left it alone. When I find the jump drive in all the stuff I Tetris-ed into the car Ill post pictures. Emily was really good at opening the presents. She ripped the paper off super fast and then said “More More Toys” It was pretty cute. Children’s toys come in the dumbest packaging. Seriously. Its a major waste of packaging just to make it look all pretty AND no one can get into it in less than 10 minutes, which is certainly not enough time to hold a child’s attention while opening it. I opened a couple of things before I wrapped them to make that a bit easier on her.

We all got such awesome stuff. We got a Wii!! AND a Vacuum!!(I think I’m looking forward to vacuuming for the first time ever in history) AND I got a winter coat that fits me!!AND Emily got a bike and a drum set! and about six hundred other things too. We couldn’t even bring it all home with us. You should have seen what I packed into the Jetta. It was insane. We are lucky I was so good at Tetris when I was little…or now.

The best thing ever was when we set up the Wii. We even got Uncle Hank to try it. Everyone was laughing so hard at each other trying to race cows that there were tears. I’m pretty sure there are sore arms today! Ahh I remember the first time I got Wii Arms…back in the day(October)…

Well here we are home again and trying to get some regular life back, which probably won’t happen until January anyways. A little look ahead…We are coming up on our 1 Year Blog-a-versary next month so there will be some special guests and great give-aways on the show. Or at least some tribute blogs, but whatever. I’m looking forward to it. Stay Tuned.

The fam at Christmas.

My Gorgeous Husband

Emily on Christmas Morning.