Thanksgiving Weekend

posted on: Tuesday, November 29, 2011

When I die, I want to be reincarnated and come back as Weston Silas. You know why? He has the greatest life ever. I'm dead serious. This kid's life is the shiz.

A brief recap of the last 5 days in the life of Wes...

Thursday (thanksgiving festivities): play with kids, eat all the pie you want.

Friday: Eat all the pie leftovers you want, go to grandma's for a pizza dinner and see that she and grandpa have fully decorated their house and put up christmas lights just for you and your personal enjoyment. All except for the tree... you get to decorate that.

Saturday: Start the day off with a Krispy Kreme run followed by the Welcome Santa parade downtown. Fill your pockets to the brim with candy.

Then your loving parents get a babysitter for your brother and take you to see the new Muppet Movie. Eat popcorn for lunch.

After the movie go to grandma's house for a sleepover where she lets you eat spagetti in the living room and provides you with a never ending supply of cheese sticks, juice boxes and complete control of the tv. (oh yeah, you get to take a bubble bath too)

Sunday: Grandpa gets you a danish for breakfast, mom picks you up and you spend the rest of the day lounging around watching christmas movies until dinner time when your other grandma comes over to visit you. (the kid is not lacking in the grandma department)

Monday: Storytime at the library, sing, dance, read books and play Dora games on the computer. Then dad comes home from work early and you get to go pick out your very own christmas tree. After that your great grandma comes over for dinner and brings you a present, just because. You eat brownies for dessert.

This is what I'm talking about.









The Life

also, if this kid has a tooth left in his mouth by the time he's four, I'll consider myself lucky.

Thankful

posted on: Thursday, November 24, 2011


(and ice cream)

Remember That One Time When We Took The Boys To See Santa

posted on: Wednesday, November 23, 2011

and oren was all cute about it 






and wes was all, well...

(sigh)

yeah.
but, wait for it...


wait for it...


nope.


face never changed once


total grump.

(he's staring down the dark, dusty barrel of a coal filled stocking at this rate)

 

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in other news we finally tried out the creperie downtown, which is normally only open weekdays from 9-1:30, because, well, i don't know actually, doesn't seem like the brightest business plan to me, but what do i know? anyway, they extended their hours over the weekend to capitalize on the holiday tree festival crowd across the street. it was really good and the tree festival was delightful as always, except for the part where i got to the tree covered in pictures of NICU babies and started crying. but that's just me.








and later, josh's sister's boyfriend (got that?) victor came over and snapped a few family photos of us for our christmas card (only because he's the greatest). have i ever told you how excited i get every year about our christmas card? it's becoming a sickness. i keep getting online to check and see what the status of my cards are. what's that? sent to print, you say?! woo-hoo! happy dance. happy dance. now when are they shipping? refresh. (you get the idea). anyway, i really stepped up my game on this year's card and it turned out pretty darn fantastic if i do i say so myself - due in large part to victor's photography skills (my hero!)
and to give you a little taste, here are a few of the extras photos we didn't use.

man, my kids are cute.





ps. i'm guest blogging over at maryam's fabulous blog milk-friendly this week.
(in case you hadn't guessed by the title, breastfeeding stories abound. you have been warned.)
seriously though, she's great and you should check it out.

Bathtub Sessions

posted on: Sunday, November 20, 2011

the boys' first bath time together








Oh. Okay. Guess We Can Do This Now...

posted on: Thursday, November 17, 2011


i mean...that's cool. i don't really like babies anyway. all needy and stuff. seven months was good...that was plenty. sure...you just go ahead then...stand up and whatnot. probably be walking soon too, huh? that's nice. that's, that's great. oh, what was that? oh, the car keys? um, well, sure...why not? i guess. just, uh, just be home by midnight then. alright. well, i'll just go ahead and leave you to your business. call if you need anything. i'll just, i'll just be in the other room there. curled up in the fetal position bawling my eyes out. but, no, no really, you just go...go have fun. i'll be fine, really.
i'm fine.


(WHAT THE #%&$ ?!?!?!?!)

The Weekend: Light on the Housework, Heavy on the Ice Cream

posted on: Tuesday, November 15, 2011


 1 and 2: saturday morning at the west side market. 3 thru 6: lunch at heck's cafe after exploring ohio city for awhile on saturday afternoon. 7 and 8: dessert at sweet moses. 9 and 10: a monday lunch date with my two favorite boys at friendly's after storytime at the library. 11 and 12: sleepy weekend lovin'


Emily's Top 10 Christmas Movies

posted on: Friday, November 11, 2011


Did you see it this morning? Smattered across the rooftops and sprinkled upon the windshields? Pretty little flakes of pure, white, happiness scattered across the lawns as far as the eye could see. I had to rub my sleepy eyes to be sure what I was seeing wasn't a wintertime mirage concocted by the sugarplum fairies of my imagination. But nope, it was true! It wasn't much, but there it was. The very first snowfall of the season!

In case you haven't gathered by now, I'm a lover of this season. A lover of wintertime and hot chocolate, of mittens and snow boots, turkey and mistletoe and all things christmas. But most of all, my favorite of all the season's traditions - christmas movies. All my life I've been a lover of christmas movies, the earliest of memories and some of my happiest. Those of huddling around the tv, brother and sister by my side. Cold nights and mugs of warm drinks, footed pajamas and claymation magic.

I'm kind-of an expert on the subject.

So, I thought I'd put together a little list. A list of my all time favorites. The same movies I drag out year after year as soon as the first nip is felt in the air. They may not be the most popular, and some may disagree with what I have chosen. (What, no Frosty the Snowman? No National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? And really, really, Emily... NO CHRISTMAS STORY?!?!) But most of these found their way into my heart during my childhood and I love them each for sentimental reasons. Are they all the greatest works of cinema out there? No, surely not. And if I could, in some alternate universe, view them for the first time as an adult, I'm sure I would be left scratching my head as to what the big deal really is. But, these movies are special to me because they all bring back a little hint of the happiness from my youth, of the christmas spirit only a child can posess. They are my favorites because they are mine.

10. Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Claymation at it's best. A classic for the ages. Abominable snowmen, misfit toys, elf dentistry...come on, that one was too easy.





















9. Elf. I not usually a fan of most new(er) christmas movies, but this? This is a modern day classic. I'm not always the biggest fan of Will Ferrell, but he gets it right in this one. It makes me smile from start to finish, and smiling's my favorite.



















8. Love Actually. The only other newish christmas movie in the bunch, but I just can't help it. Combine a good love story(s), Liam Neeson and a Mariah Carey christmas song on the soundtrack and I'm done for.




















7. Home Alone. Maybe not the first movie that comes to mind when you think Christmas, but definitely makes the cut in my book. I love me some Culkins. Kevin here's brother is in my favorite movie of all time. Resistance is futile.





















6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Even though the version that came out in 2000 was the first movie Josh ever took me too (he had me at christmas movies) I still prefer the original animated one to Jim Carrey's version anyday.

Also, when Wes was a baby he use to make a face I like to call the Who from Whoville face.
example:



coincidentally, the grinch is Weston's favorite christmas movie.

















5. It's a Wonderful Life. So, this really is a great, classic christmas movie that I think everyone can agree on. However, the reason it's made my top 10 is based 100% on my brother's ability to quote this movie, in character, from start to finish. Ben's rendition of George Bailey makes me laugh so hard no sound comes out and I can't see through the tears in my eyes. How many 24 year olds do you know now-a-days that do a spot on Jimmy Stewart impression? My brother kills me every year with this. Hot dog!

















4. Miracle on 34th Street. No, no, not the original for pete's sake. The one made in 1994 when I was 11 years old (duh). This movie is the reason I dream of attending the Macy's thanksgiving day parade one day. 
It combines both of my favorite holidays into one and is usually the first christmas movie I watch every year, since it starts out on thanksgiving. That makes it a little more acceptable to begin watching in early September, right? 



















3. All I Want for Christmas.  The story about two kids trying to get their divorced parents back together for Christmas. It's like a holiday version of the parent trap. It came out in 1991, I was eight years old and it was the year after my own parents divorced. It's always stuck with me, aaaand it features an adorable Ethan Embry and Thora Birch.

(as an aside, but I really feel very strongly about this so I must proceed...both the old and new(er) verisons of the Parent Trap were greattttt movies. I'm dead serious. Lindsey Lohan was so sweet and perfect in the 1998 version, you would not believe. Where on earth did that go so terribly wrong? She could have been amazing. super sad face)





















2. A Charlie Brown Christmas. Ok, so this was soooo hard. It was a toss up for the number one position and I really agonized over this one (busy day/tough life). And in the end, I put it at number two. But, I cannot tell you how many times I watched this movie and how hard I love it. From Sally's christmas list to Lucy's theraputic advice, Schroeder's mad piano skills and Frieda's naturally curly hair. I love every single thing about it. And Wes already quotes it too, "I never eat December snowflakes, I always wait until January." But my favorite is, "Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Browniest." Oh, Linus. No truer words were ever spoken.


aaaaaaaannnnnnnddddd..... Drum Roll Please.........




















1. A Muppet Family Christmas! This came out when I was four and I have watched it every year since. This IS christmas to me. Fraggles, the whole sesame street gang, and all the muppets! There is nothing better. Muppets + Christmas = Emily.

and that is all.

now go, watch, and be merry!

(and please be careful of the icy patch)

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