This and that

1. My father is having heart surgery tomorrow... good thoughts and prayers greatly appreciated.

2. Thomas and Emma and I will be baking chocolate chip cookies and ginger cookies soon. I just took all the ingredients out and I pulled 4 eggs from a new carton I got yesterday. Each and every egg has a date stamp on it...how cool is that, no more wondering if eggs in the egg holder are still good or not! I know, it's the little things in life!lol

3. Emma was taking all the cushions off the couches in the family room this morning and throwing them on the floor - she does this with great gusto, even though some cushions are about as big as her! Anyhow, as the cushions were piling up, I asked her who was going to clean this mess up at which point she turns to me and says "YOU"!lol For some reason, it just really cracked Gary and I up... she doesn't really use pronouns much yet and normally she might answer with "Mommy" or "Daddy", but the definite YOU just sent us into giggles which probably doesn't send the right message!lol

4. My AOL screen tells me N*cole R*chie was picked up for a DUI and that she weighs 85 lbs. Really, if she gets any smaller, she'd have to go back to driving while sitting in a booster seat since I think the law here is 80 lbs!!lol Many of my son's 3rd grade classmates weigh more than Miss R*chie!!!

5. Am I the only person who thinks that those elastic bands strangling babies' hairless heads are horrid? You know the ones I mean, the ones that look suspiciously like garter belts on babies' heads... guess they're big for the holiday season since I'm seeing them everywhere - in stores and on babies' heads...that just cannot be comfortable folks!! I will say though that there are some nice velvet or cotton ones that don't look like they'd give a poor baby an instant migraine, but most of them...well, don't get me started!lol