Winter Wonderland

Olivia's 1st Christmas was quite remarkable. I was sooo excited for "Santa" to visit my daughter. I'm sure she had no clue what the heck was going on. She would have been happy with me allowing her to pull ornaments off of our tree.....oh but no! We, the parentals, declared that all of her firsts would be spectacular! Christmas certainly to be no exception. I can honestly say I still can't see the floor and the boxes to all the toys, dolls and gadgets are stacked high along the wall so that Tuesday when the trash man arrives he might just have to pick up, dispose and return to get all of my trash. It's truly ridiculous how much stuff is packed for trash. Sorry environment :-)

One view of the bounty

Another viewMy Pooh in her My 1st Christmas pajamas

Aside from the very fact that its Olivia's 1st Christmas, we actually had a lovely blanket of snow on Christmas Day. It actually snowed on Christmas!!!! How special is that? My Mom reminded me that I had snow for my 1st Christmas as well....although I was only 2 weeks old I'm sure I was excited about it. LOL. Here's a pic of the snow from my front door.


Olivia has been in pretty good spirits considering that she has her two front teeth coming in for a grand total of 5 teeth!!!! She's not even 9 months old yet and she has 5 teeth! I feel like she's growing up soooo fast...Geez. I think her gums are bothering her more at night b/c she is not sleeping well. In fact, last night, Christmas night she woke up every two hours. I dosed her up with some pain reliever (which she didn't want to take) and then she seemed to settle and sleep a little better. Its an awful feeling knowing that your child is in pain and there isn't much you can do. It's truly a growing pain. :-(. Better days ahead b/c she will soon be eating her own chicken wings. LOL. My baby doesn't want anything to do with baby food. I mean nothing. The only bit of baby food she gets is when I put oatmeal in her bottle, otherwise she is pretty exclusive on formula. Other than a few bites or tastes of what I'm eating. Table food is her thing. It's sooo cute. She opens her mouth like a little bird when I'm eating. Oh how I love all these tender moments with my girl. In a mere 3 months, she will be a year old....heavy sigh......too fast.

BCS National Champions: The Crimson Tide of Alabama!!!!

Unless you live in a cave, you know that the BCS National Championship match-up between #1 Alabama and #2 Texas was played last night. It was a great game.....around the second quarter. Alabama definitely didn't have a strong start but they quickly turned it around. At half-time the score was 24-6, Alabama. That felt good, real good! We held that lead for a while and the the Texas rooky QB started to find a rhythm and they made a TD which lessened our lead. Not so comfortable for me. I won't go into a play-by-play, but it was a good ball game. Alabama, again, proved to be the best college team in the SEC and the Nation last night and I'm sooo proud of my school! Mark Ingram, our Heisman winner, stellar performance.

I was screaming like a wild banshee from start to finish. It was an intense, passion that we won. We'd gone so far during the season, undefeated, won the SEC title against then #1 Florida, so it was only right that we took the National Title. I am one proud Alumnae! Roll Tide!! I bet my baby thought I was under attack. I hope her hearing isn't all that keen just yet b/c I was cursing and yelling and doing all sorts of unseemly football things. LOL. SEC football is the best college football there is. The best football period in my opinion. I don't care for NFL at all. It just doesn't seem to resonate with me. But college football is fun and I enjoy it immensely....ok, maybe too much. Did I mention that I'm now also online looking for me and baby girl some National Championship gear? Yeah, it's that serious!

In other less important news, it snowed last night in Atlanta. I nearly missed it all together b/c I was so enthralled w/the game. My neighbor sent me a text telling me that she couldn't make it up her driveway so she had to park nearly in front of my house. That caused me to look out the window and sure enough everything was glazed over in white precipitation. It was a beautiful sight. It was in that very moment that I knew that I was NOT going into the office today. Yep, today I blog from the comforts of home. There was no way I was going to risk slipping and sliding out on the roads trying to get to work to do a function that I'm perfectly and effectively able to do from home. The news reported a 29 car pile-up not too far from my house. Confirmation. So today I'm taking it easy and getting things done from home. It's nice. I should do this more often.