Not Me!

Since I was very busy yesterday (and apparently the last 2 weeks) with many important things to do (read: lazy) and didn't get around to doing a Not Me! Monday post, I decided I would do just a Not Me! post instead. Who cares if it's not Monday, right?!? So, here's what has definitely NOT been going on around here (but really has)...ENJOY!

I have NOT been totally slacking in the picture taking area (and therefore in the blogging area too, sorry!) and at the same time wondering how baby #2 will have any pictures at all! You should be warned that though this post is long and full of stories there are very few pictures. Again, I sincerely apologize!

I have NOT had the following pictures on my camera since December 5 after our first 'measurable' snowfall when D and L went out to play in the snow. L did NOT try to 'throw' the snow as she had done with the leaves this fall. She did NOT come inside with very rosy cheeks causing me to wonder if she had been out too long. She has NOT been outside to play since this day (really!) because of the frigid temperatures we have been having here in ND! In fact, last night the weather forecast did NOT have the word warm across a couple of days in the forecast because the high was going to be 17, 18 or 19 degrees (actually it did...who are they kidding!)!

We did NOT move L into a big girl bed (twin bed) in the (gulp!) basement a week ago today. She did NOT stay in her bed and sleep the entire night until I went to wake her after 8am! I did NOT think that this meant the transition was a success. At naptime the next day, she did NOT get out of bed eight times in 1 1/2 hours before I finally gave up and put her in her crib (where she slept for 2 hours). That night she did NOT once again sleep wonderfully all night in her big girl bed. She did NOT pull the same 'getting out of bed' stunt for the next 4 days (at naptime) leaving me frustrated (and one day in tears!) that my child would never learn how to sleep in a bed! Yesterday, she did NOT stay in her bed at naptime and sleep for 2+ hours (YES, she did! Hooray!). I am NOT now listening to her chatter and scream and jump around and thinking that perhaps yesterday's success was only because she didn't take a nap at all on Sunday. I am NOT at least thankful that she hasn't gotten out of bed...yet!

We do NOT have a Christmas tree up this year (really!) but L does have her nativity set out. She does NOT love to play with Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and the many barn animals. She also does NOT like to make the Angel play Away in a Manger and certainly does NOT say "Hey, that's my singing!" whenever she hears the song on the radio (as if no one else can know or sing that song).

She does NOT put poor baby Jesus in the donkey cart and make the donkeys talk behind Joseph's back. See?

On Sunday, we certainly did NOT head to Church early so L could 'practice' (I use this term loosely) for the Children's Christmas program taking place that night. I was NOT proud that I had remembered the dozen cookies I was supposed to provide and terribly disappointed when I discovered I had forgotten our camera (for L's first Christmas program!!!). I did NOT ashamedly ask another mother (who has five kids of her own and remembered her camera) to take a few pictures of my child. I will NOT post these when I get them so you can see (OK, maybe I will!). L did NOT sway to the music, play with and drop her jingle bell and talk while the older kids were telling the Christmas story (although with as many kids as were in the program she actually wasn't too much of a distraction!). When we went to pick her up after church she did NOT say that she had fun singing in front of people and that a teacher told her to Shhh. :-)

Finally, I do NOT let my child stay in her PJs for a good part of the morning and I am always interacting with her never leaving her to have to read her books by herself. Now before you get too impressed that she's actually pointing to the words as she reads, you must know that she's telling the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears even though the story she is looking at is about a deer waiting for his mother in the forest and makes no mention of Bears or Goldilocks.

Here she is reading Froggy's Best Christmas and actually talking about the characters in that story. Maybe there's hope for her yet!