SpotMat Giveaway

• Two of a Kind is giving away a GelPro SpotMat.
• I like the Striated in Cranberry for our kitchen. They have a lot of other color options and patterns!
• GelPro SpotMat says on their site, "World's original gel-filled anti-fatigue floor mat reduces discomfort caused from standing on hard flooring. Great for everyone, perfect for those with back pain, foot pain or arthritis."

Wordless Wednesday - A Bow on Mica's Nose

A prop for a song he sang during his Christmas program at preschool. All the kid's had bow's on their noses.

Moose Horns on Mica's Head

• I've been telling Mica that he has moose horns growing from his head. We call him, "Mica Moose". 
• I told him that growing horns runs in the family. 
• I told him how Mommy has a nub of a horn on the right side of my head. I have a small cyst on my head in the spot where one would grow. I had him feel.
• Grandma Spiehs joined in, and she has more small cysts on her head. 
• Disgusting I'm sure, but funny none the less!
• I said, "See Mica! Soon you'll be growing moose horns too! I feel them right here". 
• He felt around, and had wide eyes!
• Yesterday Mica told me, "Mommy when I grow moose horns I can run them into people"!
• I told him, "No! You have to protect your moose horns! They do come in handy with holding things that you get tired of holding with your hands".
• Last night he picked out the book, Moosetache to read. 
• I wonder if he's truly convinced that he has moose horns growing out of his head?

Preschool Program

• Mica's second preschool program was today. He's in two preschool's. They are very different. 
• The private one has all the bells and whistles. Full costumes for the Christmas program, graduation robes and a ceremony for when they leave the preschool.
• The state preschool keeps it simple and practical.
• We like them for different reasons. Mica get a lot more academics from the private one, but more social and exercise from the public one. I'm glad he's in more then one school.
• I like his teachers at both schools.
• I do think the private one goes overboard with all the ceremony stuff. They are in preschool. Sometimes I feel like if a pen were to drop everyone would know.

Here's how his simple program went today:

1. A few songs. Added decorations for different songs.
2. Santa came in for the kids to enjoy.
3. Cake and punch.

I think Mica and the family had just as much fun watching him as we did during the other school concert.

Guitar Playing

Isaak's Busted

• Here's Isaak's face that he banged into a chair the other day. 
• He actually looks better now then he did after it happened. 
• His poor little tongue was bloody two days ago. We caught him messing with his ouchy. His check is all bit up too. 

Isaak Teaching Great Grandma Kent How to Play

• The boy's love all their grandparents! We're so lucky that they have both sets of grandparents and one set of great grandparents! Not everyone has that.
• Here Isaak is teaching Great Grandma Kent how to play with this toy. 
• Great Grandma Kent has Alzheimer's disease and has forgotten how to do a lot of things. 
• Isaak takes pride in teaching her how play all over again.
• She wanted to play, and could not figure out how to pop the Mickey Mouse characters up. When they did pop up it startled her. She kept trying to play anyhow. We just reassured her that it was ok.
• I do love how the boy's like to include her. They run up and hug her. They play ball with Great Grandpa too.
• Mica called Alzheimer's disease, "Elder's disease".

Work Christmas Parties

• We went to Daddy's work Christmas party on Saturday night. I brought a huge plate of cookies/goodies and Daddy made a wonderful bruschetta appetizer.
• Daddy's appetizer went within the first thirty min. We were the first ones that showed up, so people didn't start eating for awhile. 
• My huge plate of cookies/goodies was gone before the end of the night. 
• Mica had fun playing with the kids, while Isaak stuck to our side.
• Later on we found out that one boy was too rough with two of the kids {Mica being one of them}. 
• This is the first year we didn't watch Mica, and just let him roam and play. He's a pretty good kid. 
• Just like with driving, you can't trust the other cars on the road. 
• Mica and the kid his age didn't get hurt. They were just soar from being wrestled with. The wrestler was twice their size and old enough to know better.

• My work party was today. They just have the employee's get together. It was during lunch at a restaurant called Grisanti's. I have 1/2 my food left.  It's really good Italian food! I filled up on salad and appetizers.
• We always have a gag gift exchange. I ended up with a set of glass snowmen ornaments. I gave a wolf paint by number. I figured for an art school, a paint by number was a perfect gag gift.

Isaak Busted Himself Up!

• Isaak was jumping around, per usual. He jumped up, and as he was in the process of going down he slammed his chin on our high standing red chair!
• He has a busted chin and bit his tongue in the process. It looked like it hurt. 
• A lot of people around here are falling on the ice outside. Not us so far. We just have one banging his chin on a chair inside the house.

Alphie the Perfect Robot for a Three Year Old!

• One Savvy Mom! is giving away one Alphie to her readers!
• This is a perfect robot for the three year old. Totally an idea for me to get Isaak for his next birthday!