Tagged and Catch up

Okay, I know it's been forever once again since I updated this thing, and the calls have already started to come so here is a summary of this week along with Tagged. Since I was tagged twice already I thought I should participate this time!

First of all, our week. Things have been pretty normal with just the busyness of Christmas added in there. Monday we went to My Gym, Tuesday and Thursday Savannah had school (Thank God!), Tuesday was also a parent's night at WEE school and although Savannah's class didn't perform we got to see her classroom. Friday we went to a play date at Jack's house and had lunch with Miss Marlene and Miss Carol. Today we've done errands, laundry, painted nails, sorted mail, and done a little online shopping. There, now we're caught up! I'll try to be better about updating during the week this week!

Now for Tagged:

RULES:
1- Post Rules on Your Blog
2- Answer the Six "8" Items
3- Tag Eight People and Let Each Person Know They Have Been Tagged

8 Favorite Shows
1. Survivor
2. One Tree Hill
3. American Idol
4. Judge Judy
5. Sesame Street
6. Super Readers (anything that keeps Savannah quiet is a favorite!)
7. Charlie Brown holiday specials
8. Family Feud

8 Things I Did Yesterday
1. Laundry
2. Lunch with friends
3. Attended a play date
4. Ebay stuff
5. Ordered Christmas labels and gifts
6. Changed a diaper
7. Went to Harris Teeter
8. Tickled Savannah

8 Things I Look Forward To
1. Having nothing on my to do list
2. Being skinny again
3. Seeing family for Thanksgiving
4. Christmas morning breakfast at mom's house
5. Savannah being potty trained
6. A vacation
7. Seeing Savannah open gifts at Christmas
8. Christmas Eve at Grandma Page's house

8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Cracker Barrel
2. Makatos
3. Chick fil A
4. Firebirds
5. Melting Pot
6.
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8 Things On My Wish List
1. New Camera
2. Laptop
3. New purse
4. A healthy and happy winter
5. Clothes that fit
6. A clean house
7. Personal chef
8. Family that lived closer

8 People To Tag
1. Donna
2. Julie H.
3. Nancy
4. Jessica
5. Chelle
6. Heather O.
7. Lorie
8. Marie

Bible Study

The time change has really thrown Savannah for a loop the past week! No matter how early we put her to bed she is still waking up around 7:15 most mornings. This has caused my mornings to be off too as I no longer have time to do my e-mail, Internet, and Bible study before she wakes up. So, today I tried something new. I decided that I would try to do my Bible study while she was awake. I have to say that I was shocked at how long she sat quietly in her own chair with her Bibles, juice, and B of course and just enjoyed flipping through the pages of her Bibles. Now it probably wasn't the best quiet time I've ever had, but at least I'm not only getting some studying done but am also teaching Savannah the importance of having some quiet time.

"Pee Pee Diaper"

Wow. I had no idea it's been so long since I've updated the blog. Not much new is going on, but I thought I'd share our latest challenge . . . Savannah soaking the bed almost every night! Actually, it's like 5 out of 7 nights a week, which feels like every night. There's not much worse than waking up to a child screaming "Mama, pee pee diaper. I all wet. I need clean sheets." at 7 in the morning. For the past two weeks this is what I have been dealing with and it's about to drive me crazy. This child manages not only to soak her diaper, sheets, mattress pad cover, top and bottom of her pajamas, but usually hits at least one blankie, friend, or B as well. Needless to say I've been doing quite a bit of laundry, especially since she only has 2 pairs of pajamas that are long sleeved with no feet (that's the trick to getting her to keep her clothes on). We've tried limiting her liquids, making her try to use the potty before bed, and waiting as long as possible before putting her night time pull up on, but nothing seems to work! AAHH!! Any advice?

Trick or Treat!

Savannah was super excited about Halloween yesterday. So excited that she refused to take a nap and spent over an hour in her crib talking about going "Trick or Treat". When I finally decided to get her up she was literally jumping in the bed shouting "I go trick or treat, I go trick or treat." It was a fun night with our annual neighborhood block party complete with pizza and then seeing Savannah get so excited over all of the candy. Here are a few pictures of our cute ladybug.

Here she is at her first stop, Miss Marlene's house . . . which is no longer for sale! YEAH!! They're staying here for good!!

And here is the loot! Way to go with the candy, Savannah. Dave told me a cute story about how they were at one house and the lady just held out the bowl for her. He said Savannah kept taking a piece at a time saying "one for mommy, one for daddy, one for sananna" until he finally drug her away. How cute that she even thinks of getting candy for mommy and daddy! I love that girl! :)

Our Dora Pumpkin is Finished!

Dave has worked for several nights now and our pumpkin is finally finished. I would have given up a long time ago, but Dave wanted to make sure it was just right for Savannah. So after watching the Charlie Brown (and "Stoopy", as Savannah calls Snoopy) special on TV tonight, we had a lighting of the pumpkin ceremony. Just kidding. :) It was a fun night with some family time, a fall candle lit, and a pumpkin aglow!

Super Doubles!!

Thanks to a tip from a fellow coupon clipper, I found out that Kmart is doubling coupons up to $2 this week!!! So, yesterday I took some time and sorted through my mound of coupons and came up with an extensive list of items that I wanted to get today while Savannah was at WEE school. Here's what I ended up with:

• 2 packages Huggies pull ups
• 8 packages of Pampers wipes
• 2 packages of band aids
• 4 cans of Campbell's soup
• Cascade dishwasher detergent tabs
• Wisk laundry detergent
• 2 Juicy juice (big jar and juice boxes)
• Kashi cereal
• 2 boxes of pantyliners
• Reach floss
• Pepcid AC tablets
• Dove shampoo
• Mylicon drops
• Dora toothbrush
• Aquafresh toothpaste
• Soft scrub cleaner
• Ziploc vacuum starter kit
• Cottonelle to go
• Clorox
• Delmonte Freezers
• Scott toilet paper
• Tylenol
• Thomas Orajel toothpaste

All for a grand total of $32.79!! I used 36 coupons and saved a whopping $101.24!

Hot Pajamas

This all started last week when Savannah woke up crying "mama help" in the middle of the night. I ignored it the first time thinking she was having a bad dream, but then an hour later, when she cried out "mama help" again, I went to check on her and found her naked in the crib! Crazy girl!

Well, this is becoming a routine now . . . only now she doesn't cry so I have no idea when she's taking her clothes off. Last night when I went in to check on her before we went to sleep she again was naked. Knowing that she couldn't sleep naked, or with a blanket over her as Dave suggested, I knew I had to get her back in her PJs so she wouldn't freeze during the night. I can't believe it, but I managed to get her back in her footed pajamas without even waking her up! I woke up around 3 and went to check on her again and guess what, she was naked AGAIN! What in the world? These pajamas are hard to get off when she is awake and alert much less asleep. How she's getting out of them without help is beyond me, and even more interesting is that they are more than half way zipped up when I find them in the crib. These pajamas have a snap cover over the zipper to try to prevent this type of activity, but it is not working for us.

This is what I found yet again this morning.

Help! Any advice? We keep our house fairly cool in the winter and she absolutely cannot just sleep in a diaper! She did say this morning that she was hot in her PJs, but my goodness they are the lightest ones available. We sleep in sweats, under a sheet and a blanket and our child can't seem to stay in anything more than a diaper?!

Just because she's so darn cute, here is a picture of her reading the Bible to her friends while I was doing laundry.