Peyton hates the snow. He wouldn't even touch it. Guess it's a good thing we don't live in Kansas anymore. It's only 9:30 and we're going crazy!! Brad had to go to work...Peyton's out of school and I have no choice in the whole matter. Someone help us!!!
It's only 6:45 am a nd it's snowing like crazy. We're under a winter storm warning until 6:00pm so it's only going to get worse! Stay tuned for pictures of Peyton playing in the snow!
Tonight they're predicting Hattiesburg to receive up to 3 inches of snow! Not much to our Northern friends, but to us in South Mississippi it's enough. And it probably only means there will be no school tomorrow...grrr. I just came in from checking the mail and the people driving down our street were acting like they were on ice...it's 48 degrees out people...relax. Hopefully it won't be too bad tomorrow and Peyton can still go to school...we're about to kill each other from being stuck in the house all week with his sickness....and I really need to work out. I'm working on getting some video uploaded....I'm having a hard time though so be patient. Wish us luck as we ride out this Winter Storm Watch!! ( it just occurred to me that I might live in the arm pit of America...we have hurricanes, tornadoes and now snow?!!! Whats up with that?)
It's been a really long month for us. Peyton has been fighting a cold since Halloween and over the weekend it turned ugly. Today he is FINALLY on antibiotics after another visit to the Dr. and a phone call this morning. I mean really....after a month of snot and a night of fever, isn't it called something other than "just a cold"? So this afternoon his spirits are back up and he seems to be feeling better...even though he still has a fever. So since he's been sick for so long, I didn't think twice about letting him have the sprinkles he found in the pantry this morning. Who can tell a sweet snotty 2 year old no when he says "Mommy...fease." (in his most pitiful voice ever...he's already working angles.) I put the sprinkles in a bowl and set him up with a movie. About 10 minutes later he comes running into the living room. I immediately look at him and know this isn't going to be good. This is what I saw.....
Needless to say the sprinkles were EVERYWHERE....my blanket on my bed was officially green and I've nicknamed him Grinch for the day. After I caught him totally covered in sprinkles, he ran to the pantry and wanted more!! Seriously?!! I don't think so.
So now we're just praying that Peyton gets well in the next few days. This weekend he is staying with Maw and Paw so that Brad and I can go to Dallas and watch the Cowboys play the Giants. We're so excited!! Hopefully the weather will cooperate as well...I just heard on local news that tomorrow and Thursday we could get wintry precipitation here in South Mississippi. You know you're in the south with one day it's 75 degrees (today) and the next it's snowing!!! Merry Christmas Y'all!!!We have officially attended our child's first school production...in which he did not participate. ha! Today didn't go quite as we thought, but it was still fabulous. Thankfully the teachers had video taped our kids singing their Thanksgiving songs and played it for us in the lobby....good for us, bad for you!! When we got to Peyton's classroom, we totally expected him to come running for us. Nope. My kid was the only one yelling at his parents. He wanted nothing to do with us or anyone else in that classroom for that matter. Most of the kids stood in front of the class and sang their song....my kid sat at his table and drank juice. It wasn't until his teacher Mrs. DeeDee started telling us about how they made butter that morning that he perked up. Once he had a cornbread muffin with homemade butter in front of him, he was perfectly fine. I'm still shocked that all the kids helped make muffins and butter today. I love his school. After snack time he showed us his turkey he painted and his "helper" bee on the wall. Everyday they have a special helper...I guess your bug gets put at the top if you're it! Anyways, here are a few pictures from the day....I have video, but have not loaded it yet. I'll try to do it a.s.a.p. even though it's just video of Peyton drinking juice! Enjoy.
My baby LOVES him some cornbread.
This is his class...his teachers are Mrs. Amy (wearing the teal shirt) and Mrs. DeeDee (wearing the brown sweater). Please notice the child in the blue and red shirt in front of Peyton..he's the one that pulled his hair out. (his parents apologized)
Chowing down on the muffin
They made these precious Thanksgiving place mats, too. I can't wait to use it for our family Thanksgiving dinner.
Playing hide-n-go-seek
He LOVES his swing!
My son...already breaking fashion boundaries...nothing says "cool" like a diaper and UGGs.
All tuckered out from playing so hard
Ok in the last 2 weeks I have come across more than one thing that has just absolutely flabbergasted me....but this tops my list!! What is happening to our world!! On Foxnews.com there is an article about an ad that will be displayed on Washington D.C buses. This is what the ad says..."Why believe in God? Just be good for goodness sakes." Ok...at first glance I wasn't THAT put off by it....I mean really, why can't we be good just to be good? But once I started reading the article I became more infuriated. Here is a small part of that article:
In lifting lyrics from "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," the Washington-based group is wading into what has become a perennial debate over commercialism, religion in the public square and the meaning of Christmas.
"We are trying to reach our audience, and sometimes in order to reach an audience, everybody has to hear you," said Fred Edwords, spokesman for the humanist group. "Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion."
They feel a little alone during the holidays because of CHRISTmas' association with traditional religion? HELLO!! You would have NO Christmas if it wasn't for religion?!!! I just honestly can't believe that there are people out there who really think this way? All I've been hearing on the news since the election is comments about how it's so wrong for people to be hateful....how is this NOT being hateful? You're trying to take a RELIGIOUS holiday and turn it into nothing but Santa Claus and elves and those of us who know the true meaning of Christmas have to look at these ads and say nothing because we would be discriminating to those who don't believe. I'll have to do my research to find out how we went from Christmas being about the birth of Christ to Santa and his reindeer, but I am confident that Christmas is the celebration of Christ's birth....period. Christ came first...before Santa people. Wow..I'm just really shocked. Maybe I've been living in a bubble. Ok, If you want to read the whole article, please click here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,450445,00.html
Sorry for taking this time out of my Peyton updates to do a little ranting...sometimes I just can't help myself. And if I offended you...sorry, but it's my blog and I can write what I want. :-)
I promise next post will be lots of fun pictures of the little dude.
