'Gingerbread' House

Remember Goofy's 'Gingerbread' house from his Christmas party at school? Pretty, right?
Well, here it is now. Not only pretty, but delicious!

After the Tree

Why is it always the same kid? At Thanksgiving, he was the one that fell. Then last night he fell again! Next time we're taking down Dingy instead!

Christmas Tree

We finally got to go see the National Christmas Tree. We had plans to see it after the Army Band Christmas Concert last year, but that was the weekend Goofy was in the hospital. But we got to see it this year. It was VERY cold out there!

Goofy stayed warm. Can you find him? He kept his head down inside the jackets the whole way back to the car. (Wish I would have fit in there...it was REALLY REALLY cold!)

And if you could see his face, guess what you'd see....a bloody mess! He tripped and fell running on the sidewalk to get to the tree. He didn't just fall, he FELL! He landed on his nose and then slid on his face. I'm not sure he really appreciated seeing the tree after going through the pain to get there. But he got a special candy cane donut at 7-11 because of it. Donuts make everything better.

More Birthday

Things heard while lighting the candles on Dumbledork's cake. (Which was almost too small to hold all of the candles!)

"It's getting really bright in here!"
"It's getting hot in here!"
"It looks like Grandpa's cake."

Oh. And the smoke that was in the air after they were blown out.... Many more candles than the last cake we had here. Many more.

But we also all need to feel bad for Dumbledork. Somehow his fingers were smashed in the office door tonight. Most of the feeling has come back, so that's a good thing. Also, somehow I got the blame for it. OK. So I WAS the one that shut the door. And it was also one of those things where I saw his fingers after it was closing and knew he was going to get hurt but couldn't get the door stopped before it hit him. Do smashed fingers count as a birthday present?

Goofy's Party

We went to Goofy's party at his school this morning. We had some food and then we made little 'gingerbread' houses. Dumbledork did the construction and Goofy did the decorating.

And here's the finished house. If anyone was counting the Skittles and mini M&M's that are in that cup and comparing it to the number on the house.....Yes. He ate a lot of them. (I got the Smarties cause sadly, he doesn't like Smarties. But that just means more for Mommy when Halloween rolls around!)

You can't really tell, but look closely at the yellow gumdrop. It has teeth marks in it.

I made the door for the house.

Happy Birthday Dumbledork!!

We were Christmas shopping last night and I asked him what kind of a cake he wanted for his birthday. He said he doesn't need one. Well, Dippy and I want cake, so you're getting one! He got upset with me, though, because he said birthdays are just a reminder that you're getting closer on your drive to Geezer Town. I told him, "I don't think you need to drive, you can get out and walk to Geezer Town from here."

We're going to Goofy's school this morning for their holiday party. Then, if the weather is nice, we're going to walk to a house down the road tonight that REALLY goes overboard with their decorations. We want to let Goofy out to see it ALL. Not just what you see when you're driving 35 mph.

Boy Scouts

OK. Get ready to say, "Awww."

Dippy is moving up to Boy Scouts in February. We went to check out four different Boy Scout Troops, but he has finally made his decision. The majority of the boys were all going to the same Troop (or so we thought). Dippy picked a different one. At Tuesday night's meeting, all of the boys had to tell their Den leader what Troop they had chosen. Two other boys that we like (and like their parents) also picked the Troop Dippy picked. We didn't know this was going to happen. We were under the impression from all of the talk from the Den leader that we were the only ones going there. We are very happy to have these two families to continue on with.

But, do you know what THIS kid said to me on the way out to the parking lot? Are you ready to say, "Awww" now?


He told me that he picked Troop 964 because that is where Dippy is going.

Finally!!

I bought icicle lights for our house EIGHT years ago. Every year SOMEONE says they'll put them up but never does. But this year, he did!

And the finished product.

Dingy's Drama Club Show

Dingy had her first Drama Club production tonight. It was all improv. She got to pair up with her friend Alyson for most of it. They did a pretty good job.

This is using props. They came up with some good ideas. (Dingy's in the striped shirt in case you couldn't find her with her face covered.)
This was the first game they played. The conversation had to be all questions. Dingy and Alyson knocked out a LOT of people. The boy in the front of the other line is the Den Chief for Dippy's Cub Scout den. He's an 8th grader. And yes, Dingy took him out of the game. :)

Alyson again.

I only had my camera phone with me. I forgot my camera and was afraid to turn back for it thinking I might not get a seat at the show. (I would have; seating was MUCH better for this than for their strings concert.) But that's why the pics aren't quite as close as they should be.

Dumbledork

Dumbledork's new company car!

For Goofy

Dumbledork found this and Goofy LOVES it! He has been watching it over and over!

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Goofy -- One Year Later

It's been a year since Goofy's burn. Here he is while we were at the hospital.

This is the burn a few days after it happened.

Here it is after the cast from the graft came off.

And here we are this morning.

I think it looks slightly better today than a year ago!

Another For My Mommy!

Here's your Christmas gift! For anyone that doesn't know, the first time Mom rented a DVD, she actually asked if we had to rewind it before we returned it!

IT'S SNOWING !!!!!!!

It's SNOWING!! I know those living up there in the Arctic that are reading this are probably not impressed. By now y'all are already a little sick of the snow. (Especially since you've had it since October!) But, it's SNOWING!! The kids came running out here all excited and started opening the blinds for us to look.

Like the bare feet in the snow on Dingy?

Here's where we're hiking for Easter. Double click on the pic and I circled the spot we're hiking to.

This is a picture of the spot that is circled above

This is who is hiking. (Plus the photographer...I get to go, too!)

Dippy's Bribe

During the last week of booth sales, we had one booth that only had one boy signed up to work. I asked Dippy what it would take to get him to work it for me. He said the cheese tin. (Then one boy didn't show up for the second shift and I made Dippy work the entire 4 hours. So he earned the bribe.)
Popcorn came in yesterday. Nadine and I had one final booth to work last night at the school's holiday store. Dippy called and asked why we had popcorn on the kitchen table. I told him that the cheese tin on the table was his. When I got home, he came running up to me and said, "You gotta come see this!" I went in and he had his cheese tin open. It really is HUGE!

Decorating Time!

We got our tree last night. We don't have it decorated yet because we don't have enough lights for it. (We will as soon as Goofy and I get back from WalMart!) But we did have enough lights for this! Goofy LOVES the decorations this year. He wore a Santa hat and danced to the songs on the Rudolph special.

Oh No!

I don't know how this happened. It appears we have ANOTHER dilly dally lolly gagger! I thought Dippy was bad! He's nothing compared to this one! Can you see Dumbledork's frustration? (Or possibly even FEEL it?) Thankfully, I was on this hike just to get the kids out of the car for a while. I didn't really care about getting to the end. (Which we didn't because it got too cold and would have been too dark before we would make it back to the car.) So I didn't really care how much time he wasted. I don't think Dumbledork felt the same.

Dippy's Cake

Dippy never did make a request for his birthday cake. He usually has ideas by March! Since he loves his Legos, I thought I would try a Lego cake. It came out pretty well. Not perfect, of course, but not too bad either.

Just pretend that this was the other side of it, too. Why? Well, just scroll on down.






Here's the whole thing. It DID have the same little 'pegs' on the top of it. It DID say Happy Birthday.

Dippy was doing homework at the table while I was finishing the cake. I went out to the office to talk to Dumbledork for a minute. When I came back, there was no L for Lukey. What there was, was a little Goofy sitting on a chair in front of the cake. And yes, he had a yellow finger and yellow icing on his face! Then we all went about our business while waiting for the Pizza Hut man to show up. When I took the pizza into the kitchen, THIS is how the cake looked! SIX 'pegs' are missing! ALL of the words are messed up! When we were lighting the candles, Dumbledork asked Goofy who ate them. He said Luke, and even pointed at him!

Happy Birthday, Dippy!!

Happy 11th birthday Dippy!

Do you like the song? I asked Dippy what song he wanted. He didn't know. I said, "How about the hipo for Christmas?" He said no. But he never said what he DID want and this song is awesome! Sorry if you don't like it Dippy! Next time tell me what song you want!