Christmas in Wylie

I have pictures of some of our Christmas decorations as promised. It took us a little longer to get everything decorated this year. Lorne has been working really long hours at work lately. He's the one in charge of most of our decorating as I have previously mentioned. Our newest Christmas decoration is a village that Lorne, Larry, and Velma got me for my birthday. It is awesome! Lorne set it up in the entertainment center and it looks like the space was made just for it. It plays "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." We listened to it over and over until we thought we would lose our minds. Lorne finally found that it had a volume switch. Whew! The people move around the Christmas tree and there are ballet dancers inside the theatre.

Lorne combined three pictures to make this awesome image. The neatest part is watching the people move around the tree and inside the theatre. I especially like that the church is decorated with Christmas lights (back left corner).

Lorne hooked up the camera to the laptop to take pictures of the decorations. It made the pictures come out much more clear as we weren't shaking while trying to hold the camera. All of the pictures that we took only blurred the lights and made the pictures look pretty wacky.


Our tree has gold and red balls, gold and red streamers, and a star on top. I think there should be an angel, but I have obviously lost that argument. This will be the first year that the streamers stay in place since Maggie isn't here to eat them anymore. Her first toy was curling ribbon and she wanted to eat it from that point forward...we scarred her for life! :)


Tammy made the wreath. It's hanging from fishing line. I thought I was going to be sick last year while Lorne was at the tip top of the ladder trying to hang it. He always does such a great job of decorating! We have the prettiest house on the street! He has the lights set to a timer so they come on at dark and also in the morning so that people can enjoy them on their way to work.

My favorite part of Christmas has to be the mirror ball. I can still remember our first Christmas together in 1992 when I saw my first mirror ball used as a Christmas decoration. Larry actually had one that was homemade! It was one of the craziest things that I'd ever seen. It has grown on me though I must say. I actually bought Lorne one for Christmas at Spencer's one year. A few years later we bought some colored discs. Now we can have red, green, blue, purple, or even yellow light. We stick to the red, green, or the original white for Christmas.


Here it is...what you've all been waiting for...the mirror ball!


I love this time of year when neighbors or service people come inside. I can see the wheels turning. They're trying to frame a question about what is hanging from our living room ceiling but they're not quite sure how or what to ask.

Sawyer had his six-month well-visit today and he is healthy! He weighed 14.5 when we went two weeks ago and he weighed 15.9 today! He LOVES his pears and squash to say the least! I am excited that he is gaining. He is still in the 50th percentile for weight and 25th for height. That tells me that he is growing at a healthy rate which is important. I did have to buy some PoliViSol vitamin drops to put in his cereal once a day. Apparently breastmilk needs supplementation after six months. I also asked if they could do another strep test but they said that they usually don't do a follow-up because the antibiotics are really good about wiping it out. He got three shots today including his first flu shot. Lorne and I got ours last week so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we will make it through the flu season unscathed.


Sawyer loves his peas! He MUST be the milkman's baby! I would rather scratch out my own eyes than eat English peas...Yuk! Speaking of scratching, his face looks like he's been in a war. I can't seem to keep his nails short enough.

I went and weighed at Weight Watchers today because it is supposed to be icy here tomorrow and I didn't want to get Sawyer out in nasty weather. I didn't stay for the meeting because we had his appointment, but it was convenient for me to stop by and weigh. Weight Watchers is about a mile from the peds office. I needed to lose 1.8 to get to 25 pounds and I lost 1.4. DARN IT! Oh well, I'm hoping that I will be able to get that 25 pound magnet next week which will be a good motivator for me going into CHRISTmas.

I get so tired of hearing it called the "Holiday Season." I even saw on a news story that school kids were having to sing "We Wish You a Swingin' Holiday!" What kind of crap is that? Lowe's even had banners in their stores advertising their "holiday trees." I'm sorry, but Jesus died for our sins and we celebrate his birth on December 25th. I don't care how much the media tries to conceal why we celebrate. OK, I'll get off my soapbox but I won't apologize because it's my blog so nanny, nanny, boo, boo. :) I'm probably preaching to the choir anyway!

On another note, Lorne's cousin Ashley had her baby on Friday. Lexi Ann was born four weeks early but weighed in at 6.15 and is 19 inches long. She had to spend some extra time in the hospital but went home today so that's good. I'm going to try and talk to Aunt Mary tonight to see how mom and baby are doing. As far as I know both are doing well.


Introducing Lexi Ann!