Mmm.

Nothing says Christmas like a bowl of peppermint ice cream.

Oh, the holidays...

Well, the results are in.  I have a 4.0 GPA!  I faxed my transcript to Geico this morning to receive the student discount.  Saving money is never a bad thing.  In fact, it's usually quite the contrary.  It's now winter break and all of the out-of-town college kids are rushing back to their home town.  This makes for a good opportunity to catch up.  I'm excited mainly because I get to start going grocery shopping on Thursdays again, instead of going to class.  I know, exciting.  But in January it'll be back to normal with school starting.  Come fall of 2010 I'll be driving to the new campus they're building, with James!  We went to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party as a spur of the moment thing about a week ago, and can I just say that Gavyn LOVED it?  I'm sure that he was amused with it when he was two, but now that he's almost three, he was so giddy about it!  He kept screaming "Mitty mouse!" and we went on the Buzz Lightyear ride about three times.  Gavyn's birthday is right around the corner.  We'll be taking him to Disney again and he's getting his Power Wheels Mustang.  Unfortunately, Gavyn's car will no longer match Daddy's =(.  Rachel's birthday was on the 11th, Tyler's is on the 21st, we're going to Clearwater on Christmas Eve to see James' family, and then it's Christmas day!  I'm going to make a glazed ham with a bunch of delicious family recipes as sides.  It's turning out to be a wonderful month, as usual.  I love this time of year.  I think we're going to gear up for it tonight with some Christmas classics, cookies, and candles...  After grocery shopping, of course.

The day that Gavyn learned how to burp

PS, 27 letter pick up because WalMart forgot to give us a 'G'!  I had to add an extra one in ;)

The day of the eye-mauling insect

You read the title correctly.  My eye was mauled by an insect today.  Arms flailing while backing out in the WalMart parking lot, I frantically tried to wipe it out of my eye.  James stared at me, baffled.  I exclaimed that there was a bug in my eye, half-crying.  Silence, then...  Laughter.  "My life will never be the same, I'm traumatized."  "If you don't stop touching your eye I'm going to poke out the other one."  "At what point did the bug think, 'Hey, there's an eye.  I think I'll fly in it!'?"  "You are so dramatic, I've had a wasp fly into my mouth when I was riding a bike, I spit it out and kept riding."  "Yeah, well, your eye has never been the grave site for an insect."

I'm not sure what type of insect it was, even though I was trying to keep an eye on it.

Buh duh bum.

The Very Eager Gavyn

I just wanted to post really quick because I got so excited that I almost cried.  Gavyn is learning to READ (sort of)!  I've been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar to him every night before bed.  Each night after I do, he "reads" it to back me.  We count how many fruits the caterpillar eats, identify what everything is (i.e. the sun, the moon, the tree, the caterpillar), point out the colors of everything, etc.  Usually when he's "reading" back to me, he just flips through the pages, mumbles, and counts.  Today, he said, "and he was STILL hungry!"  He counted the fruits, as usual, pointed out the colors, and...  When he flipped to the very last page he said, "Beautiful butterfly!  The end!"  !!!!  I LOVE Gavyn, I LOVE being a mom, and if being a teacher is even remotely as satisfying, I will LOVE my job.  I have a video of him that I took really quick, but I'm going to take a better one for keepsakes tomorrow with my camcorder.  I've got to start paying attention to Dexter, it's the season finale!  Ciao!

EDIT: OH MY GOD, THE SEASON FINALE OF DEXTER HAS ME AT A LOSS FOR WORDS.

PS, After everything is resolved with our attorney and the insurance companies, I can update you on the car accident.