Thoughts from a four year old

Today when we pulled up to church a friend of ours was out sprinkling salt on the ground so people don't slip and what not. Thing 1 saw Bryce all dressed up in his suit and asks what is that missionary doing on the sidewalk. We then explained and she continued to ask a few more questions. Is he a prophet?-No. Is he an apostle?-No Is he a Bishop?-No, he is just a guy dressed up for church. At this point B turns to me and says, maybe her dad should wear his suit more often.

We both had a good chuckle and then the ladies in Relief Society had a chuckle as I told them before I started my lesson. Got to love little minds and how they work.

Midget Monkey

Thing 2 is little. People think she is three months younger then she really is. When we went into her check up at 9 months she had gone from the 50th percentile to the 19th percentile. While our Dr. said that she was probably about to go through a growth spurt and will catch back up, I can't help look at her and think she is a little midget monkey. She REALLY does climb over EVERYTHING! If I am sitting with her at the table she will squirm out of my lap and climb onto the table. These are a few pictures of her having wriggled her way out of my dad's arms and into the roasting pan. After this he went and took the two of them into the living room and onto the floor to play. There are posted pictures of that already on here.  You can see in the last picture her cute little face and how happy she is that she did it on her own. She is a sneaky little girl. She is one that we have to watch out for. If we aren't careful she tries to climb on the cats' backs and ride them. Which I STILL don't get why they don't run away.

More Fall Time Fun

Thing 1 has the funniest smile lately, she is trying harder and harder it seems and well... this is what we end up with.


Thing 2 is a climber. She uses everything in life as her own jungle gym.

Before my family got here B raked the leaves into the garden area in our backyard. We were hoping we would have enough like last year to be able to throw the kids into the leaves and not risk hurting them. Sadly, not all of the leaves have fallen yet, so while it was a big pile and the girls liked playing in it. Last year we had this much and half this amount again.

ALL ABOARD!!!

Thing 2 trying to go after the Elves' village through the window.

Little Arden lookin back at us.
Thing 1 and Santa taking about if she has been good or not. She wasn't feeling Super Duper Terrific, yet we still went. She was looking forward to seeing Santa and going on the Polar express and so on. So when she got sick that afternoon, we took it easy and hoped that it was just a one time thing. Fortunately, it was. Now the kids in front of her may have gotten sick, but... I don't care. I know, I know that sounds awful.  We would have postponed the trip if that were at all possible, but since we couldn't, we didn't. She loved it.

While family was in town we went to The Polar Express. We had been waiting to see how the judge would rule on my brother's court case and custody of the kids so we could see if and when we could all go together. All of the little ones loved it. We had the conductor and Mrs. Claus and Good Ole Saint Nick visit us as we were on board. It was great to be a kid again.