I have the flu right now, but everyone else seems to be doing fine. I dragged myself out this weekend to do a bit of Christmas shopping. I asked Kendra what she wanted and she told me that Santa knows... ugh. Then I said, we have to let Grandma know what she wants and she said that she already told Santa and that's enough. He knows. After a bit of coaxing and getting my cell phone out to take some photos, she started picking stuff out. She loves 'In the night garden' but honestly, I hate that show. It's for babies.

Anyway, she really got into her camera this weekend. She found the games on it and couldn't put it down so we thought we might get her a leapster 2. I'm still looking at them.

So far we have Hungry Hippos, Monopoly town, a princess craft kit thing, a mariposa princess and some chocolates.

Anyway, I'm so tired. I'm had a nap earlier and I'm going to bed really early. I can hardly keep my eyes open.
So I guess the 'getting married' thing is going around as yesterday many of the girls at her school were talking about who they were going to marry... LOL.

She can now add numbers up to about 12. I'm so proud.

She has decided!

On the way to school, out of the blue, she says, 'Mommy... I decided.'

"Decided what?" I answer.

"I decided that I'm going to marry Josh R.," she tells me.

"Oh."

"He doesn't want to marry him, but I'm going to marry him," she goes on.

After school, I pushed a bit further, "So, you like Josh R.?"

"Yes, he is a funny boy and sometimes he tricks me," she tells me with the biggest gring.

When Dad got home, I told him.

"Oh, who's Josh?" he asked with a look that said This kid better stay away from my daughter. Kendra got a bit nervous at that look and stayed quiet.

So who knows! Maybe she will one day marry Josh R. I don't know who he is or what he even looks like, but as long as he's nice... fine.

The Weekend

So this weekend, I picked Kendra up from school and then we went to see Deb at Penningtons. I thought I'd get a bit of shopping AND let Kendra see her favorite person at the same time. Well, I didn't buy anything and I think Kendra got a big fed up. Deb was too busy buying stuff. Kendra finally demanded to go NOW. So, ya, we left. I didn't feel well anyway.

On Saturday, we went to Costco and I spent 178 dollars. I mostly went there to get movie tickets for Saturday night, but then socks were on sale. And then I saw Biscotti, and raspberries... and well, you get the picture. Kendra had fun I think. We sat in the cafe and had hot dogs together. Kendra was running around looking for samples.... LOL.

Saturday night we went to the movie 'Bolt.' at the mall. They said it was in Digital 3D, but I don't really get what that is. We didn't have glasses. Kendra liked most of it, but got really scared during the fire scene. She sat on my lap for some of the movie. It was opening weekend so it was quite crowded. Kendra was starting to melt down as we left the theatre. It was on quite late (7pm show) and it was past her bedtime by the time we got home.

On Sunday we went back to Costco. Kendra enjoyed it. We had Japanese food (tempura) for dinner. Kendra got so excited and really tried to use her chopsticks. She's getting better. I think she figured out that she should use 2 of them at the same time.

Tonight she is wired. I have no idea why. Oh well.

TGIF

John has worked the late shift all week so he's been taking Kendra in while I've been picking her up. Today we went shopping with Deb. Kendra gets so excited when I mention her name. But after an hour of being ignored by Deb (and with good reason... she was trying stuff on), Kendra demanded to go home! She had a fit when I said we wouldn't go to McDonald's but later apologized for that. What a sweetie.