I FOUND IT!!!!

Whoo-Hoo!!! I found the blankie!!! I was so excited! This has been SO frustrating, it completely baffled me as to where it was! Last night after the kids were in bed I had to vacuum up some sand that came out of James' shoes and when I went to put the vacuum away I walked to the front door to unlock it for Brianna. I looked over at our buffet table that I had already looked in the cupboards of it. Well it has wine slots to hold bottles of wine. I don't know why I hadn't looked in there! It was in one of them, pushed all the way to the back! Jake was still awake so I went up there to give it to him. I had it behind my back and said, "Jake I have something for you." He said "what?" I took it out from behind my back and gave it to him. He started giggling but it was as if he didn't know if it was really was his blankie. He put it right in front of his face to look at it and then realized it really was it! He giggled again and hugged it! SO CUTE! Then he put it down in his crib, giggled again, laid his head on it, and said ni-night! Awe my poor baby could sleep better now! So thankful I found it!!!
Here is a picture of the old blankie. It is permanently dirty and the white looks gray! The blue is so faded it hardly looks blue!

The back side has many tears already. I don't know what we are going to do when this thing falls apart!

Thank goodness you are back blankie!! Now we can ALL rest better! :)

Security

James and Jake LOVE their blankies! I was the one who got both our boys hooked on blankies. I had one and slept with it till I got married! Craig wouldn't allow it in the bed...I don't know why! Actually I had a few, one pretty much disintegrated from overuse! Brianna never took to one, she did have "Cuppy", who was a stuffed animal. The boys I would say they are both OBSESSED with them. Jake has his ALL the time. There is hardly a time when he doesn't have it!

He has been such a great sleeper because of it. He just snuggles up to it and goes to sleep. he often puts it in his mouth and carries it around like a dog!

On Saturday when it was time for bed we could NOT find the blankie! He didn't leave the house all day so it had to be around the house somewhere. It still has to be around the house somewhere. But we are going on day 4 of not being able to find it! It has probably been the saddest thing for Jake in his whole life so far! Tragic I would say. For me it has been frustrating and heartbreaking. Jake's blanket is actually already falling apart, I can't believe it. So just last week I was thinking I need to get him another one and start integrating it in, so it gets his smell and maybe it won't be so hard to take the old one away when it falls apart! Well this just sped up the process! After looking around the house Saturday night for 40 minutes and every day there after, listening to Jake scream for his blankie and cry himself to sleep I was in search of a new blankie. I looked everywhere online. I couldn't find the exact one. I think it has been discontinued. :( I also called all the boutiques and Nordstroms from here to Newport and no one even had one kinda like it. So I found one kinda like it online. I didn't think we could wait for it to be shipped and didn't want to pay extra shipping that cost more than the blankie! So the good Daddy that Craig is went all the way to Pasadena to pick up the blankie! I warned Craig that Jake may not take to the blankie so don't get upset that you went all the way there for nothing!

When Craig got home with it Jake was sleeping, which he fell asleep in the car thank goodness, so I didn't have to hear him scream this time! I immediately put it in the washer so it would get "our smell" on it! When Jake woke up it was ready for him. Craig gave it to him and said here is your new blankie, and he said, NO and threw it! UGH!!! The past 3 nights and his nap today have been heartbreaking for me. It is like we are re-training him to go to sleep on his own. Which we never even had to do with him! But it is worse because he is screaming for his blankie and if I could only find it he would be fine! I feel so bad, I don't know where else to look I think it was flushed down the toilet or the dog ate it or something!
Last night he threw the blankie out of his crib and we put it under his head when we went to bed.

Hopefully soon we will find the old one or he will get used to his new one! I can't take another night of crying!! My poor baby!
For all the Mommy's and Daddy's out there that their children have security blankies or animals, buy TWO!!!

New Year's Eve

This is our 6th New Year's Eve at our cozy little home. A couple years ago we had some friends over who make homemade pizzas for New Years. So I decide to make that our tradition as well. James loves to help cook so I thought he would really enjoy it! And he did!

Grating cheese!

Rolling out the dough

Putting cheese on his pizza

James' pizza! It was So yummy!

We played the Xbox Kinect and everyone joined in the fun!


The boys stayed up a little late and we rang in the New Year East Coast style! Thank goodness we get East Coast channels! James now wants to go to New York to see the ball!


James setting off little Party Poppers!

Brianna humoring me!
Brianna made me take the picture off!
Craig in his New Years get up

Mommy & James

Jake thought Ricky wanted to join in the festivities!

Jake & Mommy


Happy New Year! We hope 2011 brings everyone good health and good fortune!

Rain Rain Go Away!

We have had SO much rain, I love the rain when we are inside and don't have to go anywhere. But then when it gets to be that you are stuck in the house over Christmas vacation for a week or more, I just want it all to go away. I do love that it felt very wintery over vacation. Here is James in his new Car rainboots and umbrella that he got for Christmas from Nonni & Grampy! He LOVES them and wants to use his umbrella when hardly any rain is coming down! Jake on the other hand won't even put his boots on! :(