Christmas, vacation, shopping and other things I love!

It's Wednesday! Woo hoo! That means that I am on vacation starting tomorrow but it also means to play along with What I'm Loving Wednesday!

• I'm loving that I am off from Thursday until next Tuesday. That means that for the next 3 weeks I will not have to close at all! And most days be off by 3! Woo hoo! It will be an awesome 2 1/2 weeks leading up to Christmas!

• I'm loving that the weather has been awesome here. And by awesome I mean not really dropping below freezing except at night and we haven't had any snow or rain to muck up our work travels!

• I'm loving that it is also not so crazy cold that I can still let Leo go outside and play.

• I'm loving that while on vacation I have fun stuff thought out almost every day. Thursday my house is getting cleaned from my lucky win on Facebook. Friday I am going shopping with my mom and grandma for our annual Christmas shopping extravaganza! Saturday I am taking my monkey to Exploration Place to participate in a workshop. Sunday my sister-in-law is graduating from Wichita State, Monday I guess I don't have anything planned, but finally on Tuesday I am taking Freckles to get her haircut and then taking Leo to a reading club with Parents as Teachers and then on to daycare. I LOVE vacation!

• I'm loving that I think me and the hubby are having date afternoon on Thursday. Hopefully going to see Harry Potter (yeah, I know I said that last week...I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this week!) and then we're getting take-out pizza since that is the monkey's favorite. And we're pretty keen on pizza ourselves!

• I'm loving Tuesday night dinners at my mom's! Delicious!

• I'm loving the Wii Fit Nickelodeon. Leo gets to play the Wii and feel like a big kid and we get to let him do something that he really wants to without us hovering over him. (is it bad though that it drives me crazy when he does something wrong? I just want to grab the controller from him and do it myself!)

• I'm loving that there are only 16 days until Christmas! Yay!
  

Ok, that's all I can think about loving today. I'm sure there are a lot of other things but I'm coming in on vacation brain! Happy Wednesday!

Leo's Laughs

So here are a few of the things that my little hellion...aka Leo...has been saying lately.

Tonight after I let him play outside for almost an hour in freezing temperatures:
Me: You need to pick up your toys that you just threw inside/
Him: You're mean.
Me: I'm mean because I'm making you pick up your toys?
Him: {throwing his toys in the toy bucket} Damn.
Me: What did you just say?
Him: Damn.
Me: You need to go sit in the chair in time out
Him: I don't want to.

End of story. He went in timeout but I seriously doubt it matters. He has been pretty rambunctious lately hence me letting him play outside even though it was so cold. I was hoping that would curb his unruly behavior because I think he needs to be getting his excess energy out. Luckily that was the only outburst of the evening.

And then the really funny/cute thing he did at dinner:

Him: I want a chocolate cake roll (Swiss Cake Roll)
Me: You need to eat all of your green beans
Him: I will mommy. I'm going to eat so good.
Him: Can I have my chocolate cake roll?
Me: You need to finish your green beans.
Him: Can I get down and have a piece of candy instead?

He was trying to bargain like a mad man. Alas he did not finish the green beans so he did not get any snacks. Poor little guy. I guess I am a mean mom after all! :)

What I'm Loving Wednedsay

Ok...so even though I have really creepy looking feet apparently I'm loving that my mom and I got pedicures before Thanksgiving. And they're still looking good!

Even though we have a baby tree (6 foot) we have it up and decorated with our ornaments from when we were kids and then one from every year we've been together from the hubby's grandma!

I'm loving the Harry Potter movies. I had a movie marathon on Monday and watched movies 1-5 and am finishing up with 6 tonight. Then hopefully sometime this weekend the hubby and I can swing time to go see it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

I LOVE Pink's greatest hits. My friend burned me a copy (is that even legal?!) but he did. And it is awesome! I have been jamming out for the past 2 weeks and love it!

And of course I'm loving this little dude. Even though he's been pretty crazy lately and getting on my last nerve about every other day I'm loving on him every chance I get!

I am also loving that I participated in Pay It Forward Day. I bought one of my co-workers a drink before work this morning and then I bought the branch Little Debbie Christmas tree cupcakes. And you know what...when I got home and got on Facebook I had won a free house cleaning from a local cleaning company. See...seriously...everyone should pay it forward!

So that is what I'm loving today! Go check out what everyone else is loving! Happy Wednesday!

**Images of Pink album and Harry Potter are from google!**