What will we be doing today?

For the very last day in 08 I will doing what I always do..... Cleaning up a pile. But I must say this is one of the largest by far I have had in a while. Madie said she is going to help me!
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The aftermath

We made it back from Memphis late last night and unloaded the van. Good thing we have a van, just look at all this stuff. Here's what my day will be full of.....finding places for all this STUFF! (bonus: dining rooms and dining room tables are the single best thing to have when you have multiple kiddos. Instant catch all the crap spot, craft table, family meetings and oh yeah, good family meals.)
Here's the mess we had after Santa's visit Christmas morning. We didn't have time to organize it before we left...so it's was still here waiting on our return.
Perhaps my favorite of all, the countless swords my children have received this year...yes, that's 12 total swords. No, Elizabeth doesn't believe me when I say girls weren't knights. And yes, Madie gets in on the action too.

I think this Christmas shall be remembered as the Years of The Swords. FaBulous!

Thanks for the present!

Mawmaw got the kids this neat scooter for Christmas. The kids love it and have been riding on it non-stop since they got it on Sunday. You make it go by turning the wheel right and left, almost like pumping on a swing....anyway, it rides well on the hardwood and Madie loves hitching a ride with one of them as well. So on Monday they finally convinced me to try it out, lucky for me it holds up to 200 pounds.

Scenes of what's to come.....Caleb driving mommy!

Saturday fun

Madie loves playing under the bathroom cabinets. She gets every tub, bottle and can she can get her hands on. It's gotten so bad that we've had to remove everything so she won't eat what she finds. (she likes to use her two bottom teeth to pop open the lotion top and eat the lotion, I know she's the 3rd but that's not a good thing to do even for #3)

she made the most of the empty cabinet Saturday morning. That is until David installed the knobs so now we can tie it closed....

The kids opened Saturday's present to find 24 tubs of play dough! (Caleb's guess of a toolbox of telescopes proved to be wrong, he wasn't that upset!)
They put it to good use and made a park, with a road, trees, trucks, pond....such good imaginations!