Matisyn was grateful to be flying this time, she had a hard time with the 12 hour drive at Thanksgiving. She used to not even notice, but I think she is just so excited to get to Grandma's she wants to get there faster. The girls were crazy in the airport, but actually pretty good on the airplane. I am grateful for the flight attendants that ignored the fact that Emilyn was jumping up and down in her seat instead of sitting on my lap or being buckled into a seat. It made for a much more enjoyable flight for everyone on the plane, believe me! It also helped that we had a row to ourselves again on the plane so there was an extra seat for her to jump in. I also travel prepared with lots of snacks and entertainment items to match the whims of each of my girls. Matisyn packed her own backpack and was so proud to pull it herself and pick out the things she wanted to play with on the plane. On the way to find Grandma in the Oakland airport Emilyn didn't want to ride in the stroller, she wanted to pull her piggy backpack. People were stopping to watch her and I heard oohs and aahs from all sides about how cute she was. I remember Matisyn pulling it at that age too and getting lots of looks. She was pretty adorable, and loved her independence.
Welcome Kristin's family! The first night we were at my mom's house, Matisyn hung or pulled or something (unknown cause, only witness is Matisyn) the towel fixture in my mom's bathroom out of the wall. It left two big holes. It became my mission to fix it myself and not have to have my mom call someone. Poor Matt fielded about twenty phone calls from me trying to walk me through hardware and options. At one point I thought I had it fixed, and I ran around the house patting myself on the back and shouting hooray. When my mom went to the bathroom she couldn't close her pocket door. Turns out the wall is pretty thin and I had screwed the fixture into the pocket door. Yeah me! Long story short, two trips to the hardware store, three packs of drywall anchors, more trial and error, more calls to Matt, some tears, a bigger hole made between my experiments and Matisyn climbing up and pushing lose drywall through the hole making the two holes one big one, right when I was about to give up and have to claim defeat, I finally combined a shorter screw from one set and an anchor from another (I could use the shorter screw because the huge hole allowed me to maneuver the butterfly through) and FINALLY, I did it! I was so proud that I actually got that darn thing back up, and no doors have been screwed shut and it hasn't fallen down yet. However, I do not plan on going into business!
We went to Chevy's for dinner, and Emilyn dug right into the ice cream cone for dessert. She was sticking her tongue down into the cone trying to get out as much as possible. It made quite a mess!
Here are some N's that Matisyn did at preschool. She is getting better at writing her letters.
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