Big Hands

Madison has a few large-sized hands here - I think these things date back to the first "Hulk" movie in 2003.  These were followed up by variations, one for the Thing of Fantastic Four, and reincarnated each year for different movies featuring characters with hands of unusual size.  The latest installment is for Wreck-it Ralph, although I don't think these hands shown above are for that movie.  The reason is the cup holder in the hand.  This ginormous hand is really an oversized cup holder.  It's terribly impractical, when you actually use it.  It completely makes one hand useless outside of holding a drink. But at the same time, as shown above, it looks pretty funny!

One note before moving on:  it's about giving someone a "big hand."  Madison gives an applause the same way lately.  Somewhere recently she's learned the "round of applause" joke, where you move your clapping hands around in a circle.  She's incapable of simply clapping for someone anymore.  Every event, she claps her hands in this ginormous circle.

We've been shopping, wrapping, and even finishing up our Christmas cards today.  Can you believe we're done with all our Christmas cards already?  We'll probably mail them out the day before Thanksgiving, so they'll get out there and surprise everyone right after that holiday weekend.  Thanksgiving is one week away, which is harder to believe every year.  Everyone always wonders how this season comes up on us so fast, even though it happens like this once a year.  The direct translation is how does time go by so fast?  Answer this, and you've solved one of the great mysteries of life.  If only we could slow things down a bit.

We spend some time cleaning the basement up today, and just generally cleaning the house up.  It was ballet day today too, so Daddy picked up Madison from school and took her to Brenau for a bit of dancing.  He's been completely sucked into this Mayflower book while she's been in there dancing.  She's learning quite a bit, always anxious to show Mommy a new move that she's learned afterwards.  This Sunday, we're going to see a bit of ballet, so it'll be nice to show her some ballerinas doing all sorts of moves with French names that Daddy can never get right!

We stopped at Wendy's on the way home, which is always a delight for Madison.  Mommy was a little under the weather today, so we stopped by and picked up some chili for her, and some meals for Daddy and Madison.  This way, we could all just take it easy for dinner, instead of Mommy having to cook something up.

Afterwards, it was time for Kung Fu Panda's Christmas, which is another fun Christmas special.  It takes place in China, which means there really isn't so much of a Christmas in it directly, but at the same time, there is an acknowledgement of the importance of families.  And some snowball fights.

We read a few books before bedtime, which came early for all of us - Daddy too.  Some winter nights you just want to crawl under some big blankets and snooze.  Tonight was one of them.  Goodnight!