12-10-06 What a couple of days!

Hello everyone!

I've been busy the last couple of days. Yesterday, Friday, we went to the local city "Tree Lighting Event."

One of Big Bro Neil's chorus members form school last year was invited to sing at the event. He asked Neil to get some of the current chorus members to help him sing a few of the Candlelight songs. They were suppose to start at 8:00pm, so Mommy and Daddy loaded me up and we headed to the park. Now last night was the coldest day of my life. I know people say that but in my case I am being literal. (Being only 10 days old, it's not that hard for that statement to be true!) Normally, it gets down to the 60's at night, but last night was in the 40's with the wind blowing and good golly it was COLD!

Mommy and Daddy bundled me up and while I was toasty warm, I know they were cold. We got to the park and I got to ride in my stroller for the first time! Here is a picture of Darius singing his solo: Here is a picture of the whole group that sang some of the songs from Disney Candlelight. (Neil is wearing the Santa hat.)

Saturday was even better! It started by me waking daddy at about 2:45am and we got to spend some quality time until almost 6:00am! Oh yeah, here is another picture of Daddy and me:

I finally fell asleep around 6:00am and then let everyone sleep in late Saturday morning. Aren't I so thoughtful! Neil had chorus rehearsal around 11:00am and then Mommy and Daddy and I went to Bob Evens for lunch. The restaurant had a really cool thing that they put up to the table for my car seat to sit into (Check it out here). Anyway, after brunch Mommy and Daddy had planned on going to get our Christmas tree, but Daddy forgot to bring the camera, so we had to go back home. By then, it was time to pick up Neil so the whole family got to spend the afternoon together!

One of the stops was at the mall. I don't know why everyone says the mall is so fun. I slept through most of it (imagine that) but something that I did notice: Why don't the stores that sell baby clothes make the isles big enough for a baby stroller? Makes no sense to me. And it wasn't like it was just one store; Macy's, JC Penny, Dillards, Baby Gap, and a couple of other stores we went to all made it very difficult for Daddy to push my stroller through the racks of clothes. It's no wonder that retail stores are losing business to the internet! (Don't you just love my economic perspectives?)

We left the mall and I agree with Daddy. We won't be going back there anytime soon. Way to many people - grumpy people at that!

Finally we went to buy our Christmas tree. Mommy and Daddy have bought it at one of the local churches for the past couple of years so we went back there. One of the guys working was nice enough to offer to take our picture!

Of course the tree we are standing in front of is not the tree that we bought. Daddy and Neil went and picked out the tree while Mommy stayed in the car and nursed me. I was hungry after leaving the mall and I needed to eat! So after Daddy and Neil picked out the tree, paid for it, had it loaded on top of the truck, and I had my diaper changed, all of us went back to the tent and posed for the picture. I guess that is what they mean when they say photo manipulation!

Finally we were headed home. A quick stop at Little Caesars to pick up dinner and then it was a relaxing evening at home. After dinner Daddy made one of his comments that just totally confused me. He said he was going to set up the tree so it could fall. Well duh. Why not set it up properly so it doesn't fall.

The tree looks good and hopefully we will get it decorated later tonight. We looked for my first ornament but couldn't find one that anyone liked. Maybe well find one today.

Well, time to go for now. I appreciate the email that everyone is sending, but also leave me a comment on the blog. I like reading those also!

Love y'all,

Mel