this week {11.23 - 11.29}

~ i fell down a few of our stairs. ouch. ~

~ coleman officially has some **serious** separation anxiety ~
this photo was sent to me by aj to show me that he was fine just a couple of minutes after i left

~ i did 5 loads of laundry (not bad) ~

~ i watched: csi miami, football, modern family, ncis la, glee, two and a half men. ~

~ i shopped at: kids korner consignment shop, walgreen's, and wal-mart (three times) ~

~ i was pleased to discover a nice sized balance at the consignment store. and i dropped off more stuff. ~

~ i assembled and ordered a free photo book from american greetings photoworks ($40 value) ~

~ i was super excited to see the new iphone + software makes picture messaging possible ~

~ i worked from home one day and was off two days for thanksgiving ~

~ coleman's latest obession is the dishwasher ~

~ matt was off for a few days and then worked days over the weekend ~

~ i worked on some things related to the free jessica sprague class ~

~ we had a "working mom's thanksgiving" on tuesday night with spencer since it's not his year to spend with us ~

~ coleman stood up and sat down on his own ~

~ coleman had his nine month doctor visit. clean bill of health. 21 lbs 4 oz (75th percentile) and 30" (95th percentile)

~ we had thanksgiving with matt's family and his parents' house ~

~ i bought the new sugarland christmas cd "gold and green" ~

~ i received the christmas cards i ordered. stuffed envelopes, labeled and stamped all of them. a majority, but not all, have been mailed ~

~ i ordered some christmas gifts online on "black friday" because i don't do the crazy crowds ~

~ coleman slept through the night twice ~

~ i was able to renew two of our magazine subscriptions for $5/year through amazon ~

~ i finally finished up coleman's birth mini album. it's been 95% done for a while and i needed to borrow my sister's cropadile to finish it ~

~ downloaded a ton of glee songs ~

~ coleman went for his first wagon ride through the neighborhood while i delivered neighborhood newsletters. he did really well. ~

~ the gamecocks crushed the tigers. awesome win, but a little sad that football season is over (other than bowl games) ~

first photo is of coleman intensely watching the first half of the game. the second photo is how he spent the entire second half.

~ scott came over saturday night for a while ~

~ had coffee with tara twice (friday afternoon at her house, sunday morning at mine) ~

~ coleman has a bad cough and runny nose again ~

~ my niece, maggie, went to the hannah montana concert on saturday night ~

camera phone photo sent by my sister

~ my sister and family were out of town for the holiday weekend ~

these are two phone pictures she sent me...her in a crazy hat and then teddy with his fish

~ coleman had his picture taken with "santa" at wal-mart (it wasn't a very good santa, thus the quotation marks) ~

this is how coleman spent the first half of that wal-mart trip. i can't believe how long he slept like this!

~ coleman and i hung out on the front porch with some neighbors ~

~ i took 32 pictures ~

 you can see all of those photos here.