Kids' Christmas Lists

I will be fully cleaning off my desk in the next two weeks, so this entry will change as I find the rest of the lists.  ;)  I'm afraid I will loose these, so I'm breaking from tradition (only posting in chronological order and backdating) and making a real official post today!  Here goes!

10 December 2011
**So, I found the other two kids' Christmas wish lists.  They do not disappoint...hahaha!  Brooklin actually texted me her wish list this week! She came home from school and  Caleb told her that Darwin and I were out Christmas shopping, so she thought she better get something to me while we were out!  What a funny girl!


Brooklin

• Big fluffy pillow
• Juneau shirt
• Jeans/capri/shorts
• Gutair
• CD's
• Gun
• books
• Piano music

Caleb

• Black iPod clasic or iTouch
• New DS (mine isn't working right)
• Pants
• Small R/C hellecopter
• Phone?
• Smallish laptop
• Shirts
• Steel drum
• Lots of duct tape
• "Lego Champion" board game
• A nice chessboard
• Books
• A nook
• Another warrior head
• Lego sets (big ones if you can manage)
• A puzzle book
• New running shorts
• Tan slaks
• Super Mario Galaxy 1+2
• DS Games

London

• iTouch
• Laptop
• Guitar
• Phone
• New book
• Booklight
• Petshops
• DS Game (any)
• CD's
• Yarn
• New crochet book
• Earrings
• Squinkies
• Clothes
• Candy!!!!!

Isaiah

• Wii game
• DS game
• Net Book
• $20.00
• NOOK colers
• 3DS
• 3DS game
• DSi XL
• $10.00
• Zuzu arena
• AR books (books that he can read and take a quiz on for credit at school)
• Byonikols (I think this is Bionicals)
• Legow sets
• Rumaut cuntroll helicopter (remote control helicopter)
• Pokiy Mon
• A phoun / iphoun
• A ipodtuch
• ATV (which when I asked him about he clarified it was a TV, not an ATV)
• An ipad
• Temprpetic bed ajusibol (really?!  he wants a Tempur-Pedic Adjustable bed?!)
• A book

Mouth Power

The kids and I braved downtown Juneau this weekend.  It isn't all bad down there, it is just insane trying to find a place to park.  All the streets are narrow and nearly all of the parking is along the street, and I am not good at parallel parking.  We went down to see the Mouth Power exhibit at the Juneau Museum.  It was a cute setup.  They had a giant set of teeth with a huge toothbrush and floss the size of yarn.  There was a dentist's chair and several small white lab coats so the kids could pretend to be the dentist.  They had some displays about smoking and tobacco use and several animal skulls so we could see different kinds of teeth.  While we were there, London sat down in the dentist chair and said, "I have a really loose tooth.  You should come over here and pull it out."  I thought she was playing, but she was serious!  I walked over and yanked out her tooth!  haha!  She lost a tooth at a display about teeth!  Pretty funny.  We bought her a souvenir tooth holder from the gift shop. 

After the museum, we stopped in a little new/used bookstore on our way back to the car.  We all love books.  Brooklin bought four books, Caleb bought two, and I came home with four or five.  We had some other shopping to do on Saturday (since it IS a special day....lol!) so we walked back to the car and drove to the stores.  We went in to Payless Shoes at one point to buy Isaiah some new Sunday shoes.  After picking out some that fit him, we all started trying on random/crazy shoes...super high heels for me, knee high lace up converse for Brooklin, wedge heel tennis shoes for London...I think even Caleb tried on a pair of shoes.  It was getting time to go, so I told the kids to start cleaning up all the shoes we had gotten out.  London was sitting on the floor surrounded by boxes of shoes, and said to no one in particular, "I could do this all day..."  We all had a good laugh at that one!  We came home and played a game of Settlers of Catan and then had French Toast for dinner.

Darwin has been in Florida this past week visiting with his brother's family in Satellite Beach and this week he's attending a Cruise Ship Expo (I think) in Miami for the Coast Guard.  He should be home on Saturday night...hooray!  We have been having fun talking with him over the internet.  We both have laptops with a webcam in them and we have been using Yahoo Messenger 10 to video chat.  The kids and I all squish into the picture and have fun seeing and talking with him!  I love video chat!  We just tried out Skype today, and it seemed to be a good option as well.

High Adventure

We went out shopping today at a store that is going out of business. I bought two pairs of SouthPole jeans for London, and two pairs of SouthPole jeans and a pair of dress shoes for Brooklin. I paid $95. The total without clearance pricing...$225! Anyway, the dress shoes I bought for Brooklin are high heels. This is not the first pair of heels she has had, but until she tried to walk in them, I didn't realize they were the first pair of heels she's tried on that didn't have the chunky soles. It was really so~o funny. She stiffened her legs, took tiny steps, and was generally falling all over the place! I'm suprised she didn't break one or both of her ankles! I so wished I had a video camera with me. The shoe clerk tried to help by giving her walking tips, but it didn't seem to help. It was just really humorus. She is now wearing them around the house so she doesn't look like a goof tomorrow at church. =) They are very cute on her though.