Our Christmas!

(sorry for the awkward formatting. I'm still learning how to use Blogger and can't seem to add pictures correctly. No matter what layout I choose, the picture automatically goes to the top of the page...)

I ended up having to wake WS up to set Remi's playhouse up! I had a ton of presents to wrap. I thought about wrapping them ahead of time but I'm always worried that Noah will find them. Plus, I'm doing lots of returning and switching out especially if items I've already purchased go on sale! And I have a tendency to forget what I bought since I'm always hiding them in different parts of the house. I'm super paranoid about ruining the whole Santa myth with Noah so I have to make sure to use special wrapping paper he's never seen and get rid of any trace of it!


Here is the tree with all the presents underneath. The green paper is what Santa used for his gifts. The white paper in the back are the presents from mom and dad. Noah wrote his Christmas list a few weeks ago and Santa tried his hardest to get what he could. It was a list of about 10? things. He got about 8 of those and some additional toys from Santa. He asked for: 2 different Nerf guns, 2 different bakugan (Santa TRIED to find the exact 2 he wanted but who can tell those things apart? They ended up not being the right ones but Noah didn't mind), 1 webkinz, legos, k'nex and a happy sac. I had no idea what a happy sac was. He tried to explain to me. It seems as though they used to sell them at the school store and it seems like some combination of a hackey sack/stress ball. This is what he REALLY wanted but Santa couldn't find it!


Cookies for Santa!

Luckily, Noah slept in until about 9am (which is late for him). We came and woke us up telling us Santa had come, that he had taken the card he made for him, eaten 2 cookies and he could actually see a footprint in the carpet! (I think it was from Wonsuk's slippers). We started opening presents right away. We were excited for Remi to open her's too but she didn't quite "get" the unwrapping yet. She didn't like the tearing sound of the paper! WS ended up opening her gifts for her but she was happy once the wrapping paper was off!

Remi is a trip. She put half of the zhu zhu hamster ball on her head with Noah's glasses from his Nerf Dart Tag set. She wasn't even like, "Look at my funny outfit hahahaha." She would just play, stop, put on hamster ball and glasses, then keep playing." We were chuckling at her all day.

Oh, and she kept on putting that Zhu Zhu pet into her play oven -and the pet had to be on. We kept taking it out but she'd get mad at us and put it back in. hahaha.

As you can see, she was finally getting herself off of the couch. Her toes are taped together and she would refuse to walk. The grandparents came over later and lo and behold, once she saw that scooter (from my aunt) she was UP. She made WS ride her around the house and even tried to ride the tricycle from my parents. Sorry there are no pics of my parents. hahaha. We had a pretty low key Christmas this year since my sis and her family weren't here to celebrate with us. When my parents came over, the kids opened their toys from them. Well, actually, from them and bought by me. They get nervous trying to pick toys out for the kids. hahaha

I was able to take a nap since I had been up until about 4am. Then, instead of a regular Christmas dinner we went to a Japanese buffet! I had planned on cooking but the night I was supposed to go shopping we were in the ER with Remi's dislocated toe. I decided then and there I had not the energy nor the interest in shopping for a big meal and cooking. We've postponed our big Christmas meal for when my sis, jason and baby e come later in the week!

So this is the mess that I've been cleaning up for the past 2 days. Not just this pile but finding space for the toys in an already maxed out playroom. Noah and I went through his toys yesterday and purged a TON. We boxed a lot of things up and put them in the attic since Remi might want to play with them later. We threw some away that had missing parts and put a box together to give away.

Told you she loved her hamster ball hat...

Remi's Owie

Yesterday Remi was playing and slipped on the tile floor of the dining room. It seemed like a simple slip because when I turned and saw her she was kind of sitting on her knees. Her back was to me and I could see that her shoulders were heaving as if she was crying but she was not making a sound (you know how kids do that sometimes). I immediately went to her, picked her up and she started to cry pretty hysterically. Something told me to look down at her foot and there I could see her baby toe on her right foot pointing away from the other toes. It didn't look good.

I immediately woke WS up (he had dozed off on the couch) and told him, "We have to go to the ER. I think Remi's toe is broken" and then told Noah to put on his shoes and coat. WS was still a bit out of it so he was frantically running around (yeah, later in the night as we were reflecting on the entire incident we both came to the realization that he is totally useless in an emergency situation). He DID make sure to find his jacket and put it on which meant that he was now dressed in three layers of clothing. I told him to put shoes on and he's scurrying around looking for shoes and says, "But she won't want to wear them!" and I'm all, "Not HER shoes! YOUR SHOES!!!"

Thankfully, we are less than a mile from an ER and we got there very quickly. WS just held Remi with a blanket in the back seat. One thing I'll always remember is how hard she was crying. She was so upset and scared but she kept calling for her big brother. She kept saying, "woah wuh! woah wuh! woah wuh! I huht woah wuh. I huhting." She calls 'Noah, woah-wuh'. I thought it was so heartbreaking how she kept calling for him of all people. Noah was really scared because everything was happening so quickly and you could really hear that she was in a lot of pain. But he managed to console her as much as he could.

We get there and amazingly they make us go through the entire registration and check in process while we are holding a very distraught and hurting two year old in our arms. We finally get seen by someone only to have them sit us down and ask us a bunch of questions about allergies, get her weight and her heartbeat. Ummm hello, do you happen to notice I'm holding a screaming two year old? We get back to the room and we wait AGAIN to see someone. Another registration person comes in. Wait 10 minutes. X-ray tech comes in. Wait 15 minutes while doc reads x-ray. doc comes in. It's a dislocation. Let me get my attending. Wait 10 minutes. Remi finally gets some Tylenol with codeine but she's still in serious pain. Her toe is pretty much perpendicular from her foot. The doc says the attending will re-align her toe and she'll be administered something to numb her. Wait 10 minutes. Attending comes in, takes a look at her toe and says, "yup, that's a dislocation" and proceeds to PULL HER PINKY TOE right then and there. No numbing. Remi is SCRA-REEMING at this point and her whole face turns red. Keep in mind that she had been crying for about an hour non-stop by this point. They tape 3 of her toes together and send us off. But of course not before waiting for another 15 minutes while they are getting her discharge papers. And she's still in a lot of pain by this point.

We get home and she's ok once we plant her on the couch. She won't let us touch her foot and keeps reminding us, "Don toucha feet. Don toucha feet." She slept okay last night but still woke up earlier than usual. She even hollered for Woah Wuh and as soon as he came in the room she told him, "Don toucha feet woah wuh. kay? Don toucha feet." She really didn't want me to get her out of bed this morning and cried when I moved her to the couch but she's doing fine now. She's hasn't walked or moved from the couch which is so unlike her.

Poor thing. This is her 2nd ER visit in 2 months. Last month she fell from the dining room chair and we just took her in as a precaution. Last year in December she was at the Children's Hospital with her MRSA infection!

So here is our little princess. She has been on the couch all day and even took her nap there. She's been watching Hi-5 and Oobi.

Hello, blogging world!

I've FINALLY decided to start another blog. I still have babynoah's xanga site that I started when he was about 4 months old! He's now 7.5 years old and in second grade but I can't tell you how many times I've looked back at those posts to remember his baby days and toddlerhood. Noah was a 100% charming, magical little baby boy and I'm so glad that I meticulously recorded every detail. I've also referred to it more than several times since Remi has been born to determine milestones or decipher baby needs.

Once I was pregnant with Remi, I decided to start my own xanga as babynoahmama since I wanted Remi and I to have our own little place but then it got so hard to maintain both. Life is so much busier with two! I AM a bit worried about losing all of our 6+ years of posts on Xanga. Not to mention the fact that our old computer had a serious meltdown and we lost all of Noah's stored pictures so THE ONLY pictures we have are the ones we have uploaded on Xanga! yikes. I know there are sites out there that will print and bind your blog so maybe we'll look into that later...

Now that Remi is a bit older and much more independent, I'd like to start blogging again to record family events and have my own place to ramble...