I'm a bad blogger. I like to do my entries in the evenings, to kind of recap my day. But by the time I get around to it, Darrell is asleep and the clicking of the keyboard is really loud when it's the only sound in the room.

So yesterday (Saturday), we went to Columbia to get coats and shoes. Hunter had to get a size 3 shoe. The ones he was wearing were 2s, so we tried a 2 1/2 and his toe was at the end, so we had to go up to 3. It's funny, because when we got him a pair of Nikes last year, he had to have a 3 in them. I guess they run smaller. Anyway, we found him a coat at Wal-Mart, a 3-in-1 type. It's two jackets that zip together to form a thick coat. He likes it, but of course he's only wearing one of the jacket pieces instead of the whole thing. It can be 0 degrees outside and he wants to wear a jacket. We found Shelby's coat at Sears. We got it for half-price, which is a good thing since it was $50 originally. There's no way in hell I'd give that for a child's coat. Maybe I'm cheap, but it better change diapers too or something for that price.

After we got the coats and shoes, we went to the pet store, liquor store, then to Burger King for lunch. As I was pulling out of the parking lot at the liquor store, I dropped my Coke can and spilled it all over myself, so BK was drive-thru. ;p While we were at Wal-Mart, I also got the kids' the gifts for their swap partner. Jacob got a little micro machines set, Rebecca a kitty doll with hair that has a brush and other accessories, and Destiny got a doll with bottles, baby food, bib, etc. I'm giving my Mom a candle, so I've already got that. The only ones I'm lacking is Richard, Dora and Karen. I'll pick those up next weekend, I guess.

Today I've been cleaning and baking. I still have a load of clothes in the dryer, and need to vacuum and mop. I baked some chocolate chip cookies with little red, green, and white candy coated chips. Also cornflake peanut butter balls, milk chocolate fudge w/walnuts, and a chocolate chip cookie bar that has walnuts and coconut in it. Yum! :) Shelby has been cranky all day. It took me until around 2 to get her down for a nap, then once she went to sleep I couldn't get her to lay down without waking up. I finally got her laid down and gathered up Hunter and Mackenzie to do their craft. Doing a craft was on their advent calendar today, and it was painting the ornaments for the tree at the Christmas party, so I definitely wanted to get it done while Shelby was asleep.

Wouldn't you know, as soon as I got newspapers spread on the table and was giving the kids their paint, Shelby woke up. I lost my mind for a second and decided to let her paint too, but just on paper. Before it was over she had craft paint all over her legs, feet, hands, arms and face. I had to stick her in the tub, luckily the stuff washes off easily. And, the grossest thing happened. While they were painting, she grabbed Mackenzie's cup of water that she was using to rinse between colors and took a drink out of it. YUCK! It was kind of funny though. Heh.

So Shelby's been as cranky as ever this evening. It's almost bedtime though. Yay! Oh Lord, the dog bit Shelby today, too. It was her fault, the dog was trying to take refuge under the end table and Shelby crawled under there trying to pull her out. They're both having to learn how to act around each other, and it's slow going. Nubby got her on the cheek, it's just too small scratches. She's not big enough to do any real damage. Hopefully we'll all have an understanding before that time comes.