Joats- hope you get more sleep tonight!
Bellacam- Aidan is so cute!
Tamie- I hope Tyler's rash continues to keep clearing up!
Today- I found some great stuff at Costco for Christmas gifts! Just putzing around there today- I wanted to get the boys the new Star Wars movie, and just check things out. I got DS a Hermit Crab kit- he's been eyeing them at the mall, and it was going to be about $50 to get everything there. $15 at Costco, minus the crab.
24 packs of Yankee Candle votives (although it's called Plymouth Bay on the wrapper, but then says "yankee candle" in small print, so it's not some cheapie knockoff) for $20. I am going to divvy them up between my 3 closest friends and the boys' teachers. For my friends I also found a 3 pack of body butter for $12! Such a load off! I love some of the candle scents and may have to keep a few for myself.
Also found a 3-pack of "method" brand hand soap for $7.99 in holiday scents. I was running low on
bath and body works anti bac soaps and this will be a nice change. And you know what I want- the complete series of Sex and the City- the whole enchilada at Costco for $165....but I just can't justify that!
Also today- can I be catty with y'all? Please don't think I'm a snot all the time. OK, I've talked about my busy-body neighbor who is my age and drives me nutty sometimes. She is (was) pregnant and delivered yesterday via c-section. She did not know the gender (her choice) but we were 'not allowed' to talk about the possibility of it being a boy in front of her 4 year old DD because DD just 'could not handle it.....she wants a sister." OK, that's gaggy in and of itself. But my neighbor has a 13 y.o. step son that she disses all the time- to the point where it makes me uncomfortable and I have told her so. I have told her that stepson is ALWAYS polite when he's at my house playing and the things he does are normal 13-year-old boy things. She's made lots of negative "boy" stereotypes, sometimes in a kidding tone, but it pisses me off (sorry) because I have two boys and she thinks her daughter is such a freaking princess. So, I kept joking with her, "You know you're going to have a boy, don't you?" And she would do this nervous laugh and say, "Oh, a boy would be fine, don't get me wrong, but I just think it's a girl."
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......I called her today at the hospital and guess what! HAHAHAHAHAHA_-----she has a beautiful, baby BOY! I almost dropped the phone cause I wanted to shout with laughter. And I don't even mean to sound like having a boy is a punishment- you all know I adore my boys and I actually think boys are easier in general as they get older. But it was so satisfying that she was WRONG and that her spoiled rotten DD is just going to have to DEAL WITH IT! HHHEEEEEE HEEE HEEE HA HA HA HA!!! They don't even have a name yet! I think because she just thought they wouldn't have to cross that road. Gosh, I could die laughing....she just has made me so angry this past 15 months with comments about how boys are so messy, or all boys potty train later than girls (because she's had just SO much experience with her stepson and her DD playing with my DS), or how girls are just so much fun to dress up (and she makes her these hideously too long dresses- not even CUTE girl stuff!)and be mommy's girls, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
OK, I'm done gloating now.
Aren't there just certain people in your life that you love to see eat crow? She was also telling me this line of BS about having to stay in the hospital an extra day because she was going to have to be put to sleep cause she can't have a spinal/epi due to some back problems....I was like, "huh....I was put under general anesthesia to get my gall bladder out, and was leaving the hospital 5 hours later.....why would they keep you 5 days versus 4 because of the anesthesia?" And she gave me some nonsense answer...And so I asked her, "When are you coming home? Saturday like you thought?" Her- "Um, no, they're discharging me on Friday morning." Huh- how bout them apples?
There are certain things 99% of the general population cannot win an argument with me on because I just *know* my stuff. One being Disney. The other being things related to childbirth; and not just because I have had 3, but because I grew up with a L and D nurse mother who talked about that kind of thing all the time. And I really read up on things- read tons of pregnancy and childbirth books, etc. And my neighbor knows this, but still just loved to talk out of her butt with me about stuff and act like I didn't know anything.
Ok, I'm really done now!
Good night ladies!!!!!!!!!!!
But I'm a sucker for anything with an airplane on it! Last year I waited until just after Christmas and nabbed almost the entire airplane line - pants, jacket, shirts, bodysuits, etc - for just over $100. (And free shipping, too!)
Tristan adores him and wants to help and hold him. The second Sebastian fusses, Tristan is there to rescue him. I never thought he would bond w/ his brother so much. Caroline peeks in at him and says his name, then goes about her way. I personally feel wonderful these days and so energetic compared to when I was 9 mos. pregnant. I can bend to pick up toys and I vacuumed the whole garage 2 nights ago due to our mass ladybug invasion. I wasn't supposed to, but I drove my mother to the doctor on Monday (I didn't take my pain meds that day) and I made out just fine. So the 3rd C was my easiest thus far, thank heaven. Therefore, I am recuperating quickly and have had no problems watching 3 kids w/ an incision. Yahoo!
And I can't wait to see my little ones in a Mickey Mouse hat just like Jimmy. Come January I will have pics of them looking very Disney. 
He's been sleeping like crap the past few nights and I'm barely getting any sleep myself trying to console him. I plan on going to bed in a few minutes and it's barely 8pm! LOL!
