Jumping around on the new trampoline!!
Finally it’s dry enough to jump on her new trampoline! I thought we would both go crazy waiting to try out Santa’s gift!
Archive for December, 2006
Forgive me…
Please excuse any typos, wrong word choices, misspellings, crazy/sappy/no one would really care because she isn’t their child stories from me…
Number one: I’m preggo…enough said if you have ever been in this condition before! (the sweet baby sucks the brain right out of you, I swear) …not to mention I’m a wee bit emotional…just ask Mel. So the sappy stories will continue, as will the grammatical errors!
Number two: The only time I can usually devote to this blog is in the wee hours of the morning…when I have Mel and McCanless out of my hair…so I’m usually almost asleep or should be!!
Sorry guys! I’m sure there will be more in the future…please overlook!
The Thirty Days of Christmas…
…helping Mommy and Daddy with the Christmas tree.
Clowning around…as usual…
I asked Mel to take McCanless for the day so I could get a bit of shopping done. As I drove through Florence, I looked to my left and saw McCanless and Mel cruising along in the van heading in the same direction. “Meet us at the Civic Center,” was all Mel said. Little did I realize, we all would be flopping around on ice that afternoon. We rented ice-skates and took off! I still never know what to expect!
McCanless did extremely well to my surprise.
Have you ever seen such cute ice skates???
The Hartsville Christmas Parade 2006
Nonnie asked McCanless to ride on the Mutual float with her again this year. McCanless waved like a beauty queen! (although she doesn’t look thrilled in this picture)
Daddy was in charge of the parade again this year and was cruising around in our golf cart with his entourage the whole time. After her debut as Mutual parade princess, McCanless jumped on the cart with daddy and continued as Deputy Parade Boss.
Tap Dance Class Christmas Party
Thought I’d actually post a picture of her doing something. (3rd from left-black and pink) When parents went into the room to “observe,” McCanless stood there waving and smiling at me, but wouldn’t do a thing! I caught this one just as I walked in. (let’s hope she does a bit more at the recital)
2-year-old kindergarten Christmas Party!!
Visiting “Daddy Santa” again this year…
Mel helps out Santa every year and plays the part for the local YMCA. Last year McCanless sat on his lap and chatted away. We thought we had her fooled until we left and she casually mentioned, “Bye Daddy.” This year was a different story. She did NOT like daddy in Santa’s clothes…AT ALL!
Christmas Eve with Mel’s family…
..and to the limo (funeral home limo) to see all of the wonderful Hartsville Christmas lights…while singing with the Disney Christmas CD with the whole family!
Christmas morning..opening Santa’s gifts!!
Sorry, Mimi! I tried to get her to wear her adorable Christmas PJ’s that you sent, but these days anything pink and obnoxious takes precedence. (like the hot pink, velvet-like princess gown she had to wear)
Too bad it was raining all morning and McCanless didn’t get a chance to jump on her new trampoline! (Santa must have spent FOREVER assembling the night before)
painting Daddy’s nails…(good thing Santa reads the Hartsville Messenger. He wouldn’t have known that McCanless wanted pink nail polish, otherwise. Apparently the Messenger stopped by McCanless’ kindergarten class to ask what Santa was bringing!
McCanless had to think when I asked her what her favorite gift was…
On to Nonnie’s Christmas day…
McCanless remained in PJ’s all day!!
After a long day, and several pj’s later…(she couldn’t help herself, if someone gave her new pj’s, she had to put them on)…she had had enough!!
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
Daddy Duty!
I wish I had a picture to post of this, but I don’t, so a quick story will have to do. (I must record this for posterity)
Last Thursday, I promised a dear friend that I would pick up her child from 2K because she was in a bind and didn’t have a way to get him. I thought it would be no problem because McCanless is in the same class and we would just go eat and play for the afternoon…until I realized that I was giving an exam on that Friday and wouldn’t be finished until around 1:00!
I knew Mel had off, so I reluctantly asked him. To my surprise he agreed without even one complaint. He even sounded a bit cocky as if he could handle it even better than I could. Fine, I decided. “I won’t be home until about 1:15,” I told him.
To my even greater surprise, when I called to check on him around 12:30, he had not two toddlers, but three. Another friend of McCanless’ cried when she saw that Mel was taking McCanless and Parker, so Mel offered to take her along for the day! I guess Mel made a great impression on her. (Apparently, Mel didn’t take McCanless to school this day, but showed up to pick up Parker at 11:00 and stayed and played with the kids and “helped” out with the play dough until 12:00, time to go home)
Laykn’s mom quickly accepted Mel’s offer and the four were off. Mel was left to fend for himself…in McDonald’s at lunch hour, with three, three-year-olds!
I was so very proud of him, especially after he called me at 1:20 on the dot to see where I was. By this time, he had made it through check out, ordered all three the exact same thing (coke included, which McCanless has never had to my knowledge, except what my mother sneaks her on a few occasions) AND had taken them all to the bathroom at the exact same time, which he said happened just as they all sat down to eat.
When I got home, Mel had taken Lakyn home and had McCanless and Parker in the bed with him…trying to take a nap. McCanless and Parker were talking, laughing, kicking the covers up, and making faces at each other.
Mel was on the very edge of the bed sound asleep.
Surprise!
This is how we told everyone our news!! (The Christmas card below…from the four of us!) We just decided it was easier to tell all of the grandparents at once, and everyone else for that matter.
McCanless will be a big sister in June…and yes, I sent them out the day before Mel’s birthday! Sorry, Mel. I think you already knew that you are way down on the totem pole these days anyway!
Happy 31st birthday, “Daddy!”
By the way, so many people have asked…the picture is taken in our front yard on the swing that Mel built a few summers ago.
Thanksgiving on Daufuskie Island…
Road trip to see Mimi and Bapa for Thanksgiving!
…on the road,
…on the boat!
“Over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go..”
We visited Mimi’s school and watched the Daufukie Island Elementary School kids practice for their performance at the Gullah Festival.
Playing with Mimi’s school kids at the Gullah Festival on Saturday.
Even McCanless got a Daufuskie Dolphins t-shirt to wear!
McCanless shopping around…
and shushing other kids while a low country author was telling a story.
Santa even visited Daufuskie!!
Second attempt…
McCanless felt more comfortable watching Santa from Daddy’s shoulders.
Thanksgiving 2006…
Thanks for cooking, Nonnie!
We got there a bit early. (everyone was still in pj’s) So, McCanless watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade while we all “helped” mom!
Kacy’s attempt to help!
“Kacy and JoJo”
Baby brother, Alston, and Nonnie!
“The girls” (yes, McCanless changed into her pj’s…before thanksgiving dinner)
Nonnie, McCanless, “PA” and me! (McCanless is wearing an old early 90′s prom dress…she can’t go long without playing dress up) Good thing mom saved all of our old ugly prom dresses!
She thought it was the MOST BEAUTIFUL dress she had ever seen!
She decided to show off her new dress. She walked into the den and pranced around in front of the television that the boys were trying to watch!
