Aussie Jingle Bells!

To get you in the mood....

I'm a big boy now...but I still require my dummy!

Well, we've done it...there's no going back now! Rhys thinks his new bed is pretty cool and so far he's done really good. Tonight is only night #2 so I may be changing my mind on that. He did get up and play when we put him down for a nap today but one stern talking-to was all he needed. Anyway, I'm pretty excited about the change...now we only need to potty train and take away his dummy....now you know why I picked the easy one!

"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree..."

I braved the shops this Saturday and got some Christmas shopping done...thank goodness Eldon stayed home with Rhys! I know Mount Isa isn't a very big "city" but all we have is Kmart...so just imagine 25,000 people trying to buy all their presents etc at one shop...two weeks before Christmas. Anyway I was successful at least...I got the last christmas tree available...the checkout lady had to unplug the display one for me! (the 50 people behind me in line were none too impressed!) I really wanted a tree this year to make it feel like christmas. It doesn't hold a bar to a REAL tree but I can settle for this. ;) It has fiber optic lights on it so we just decorated it with red balls, silver bells, and candy canes. I thought Rhys would get a kick out of it, and he did...he even let me take pictures of him putting things up which lulled me into complacency. The fun game now is to take off all the ornaments and stick them inside the tubes of wrapping paper where they fit perfectly! I must have had a severe mental blockage when I thought if Rhys didn't see me getting the candy canes out of the cupboard he wouldn't know you could eat them....what was I thinking? The first thing he did was stick one in his mouth. Then he let me hang them all up and proceeded to take off all the bottom ones one by one and try to eat them! So...our poor christmas tree doesn't look nearly as good as the pictures lead you to believe! There are a couple candy canes left at the top where he can't reach and every night after he's in bed I put all the ornaments back on for tomorrow's game!

This is our christmas dog, Mr. Jingle Bells. Rhys loves him! Rhys has a little conversation with him: "Push the button?" "Ok, push the button." (jingle bells, batman smells...) "Push the button?" "Ok, push the button." This goes on 10 or 11 times before he moves on to something else!