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12/13/2004 Archived Entry: "well, good morning to you too"

At five I was awakened by a killer leg cramp. I could not stand at all so I had to wake Chris to massage my leg for me. This was a minute or so after I had just drifted off after a 4:30am restroom run, so I admitted defeat in the sleep department and here I am. I'd rather be up too early than sleep in though. Ask me if I still feel that way in February, lol.

A couple days ago I gave Tabitha some black construction paper and had her draw winter scenes with white chalk. She was really enamored with that idea and after a couple of white drawings, she used all her colors and did about 15 drawings total, half of which were Christmassy and are now hanging up around the house as decoration. Yesterday we cut snowflakes. She did four large ones, I did 1 large and 5 small and Chris did two large ones as well. Tabitha then used her glitter glue to decorate them. One of them will be a gift to Santa, I think that's based on the Christmas Dora the Explorer episode she watched last week, and the rest will be hung from the ceiling I imagine. She wants to cut more so we'll probably do that tomorrow.

Saturday afternoon Chris and I got to Ikea and picked up the bear Tabitha wanted for Christmas. We then went to Target to get the hula hoop and was informed that's a spring and summer item only, despite the fact that I saw them in October. Guess I should have bought one then. I'm not completely admitting defeat, there are plenty of other Targets I can try. If I can't get it, at least I'm secure in that it's not something Tabitha has placed on any of her wish lists, it's just something that I know she wants. So there will not be any disappointment to not getting one.

Tabitha is so enamored with cursive. She's learned c, a, and d and goes around writing dad, add, and ad on anything and everything, lol. Chris is the recipient of quite a few pieces of paper with "dad" written on it, made just for him. Considering the child refused to use lower case letters just a few months ago, I'm pretty impressed with her. Goes to show what a little determination will do, I guess.

Yesterday we went to the mall. Not by choice, mind you. I don't care for this particular mall on weekends anyway, but less than two weeks before Christmas? Forget it. But it was the last day CHP was going to be there collecting toys and we had a whole bagful for them that Tabitha bought at the beginning of the month so we really needed to go there. The officer was amazed at how much we brought and made us take a fanny pack by way of appreciation. Not that I would ever let any of us wear a fanny pack let alone a bright blue one that says "¡Si Tomas, No Manejes!" (If you drink, don't drive). But the officer was so happy with all we brought I really didn't know how to turn him down. So it looks like Goodwill will be getting a fanny pack at our next donation run.