Gotta be grateful

It dawned on Kaiya the other day that we do not have a chimney (gasp!). We told her that we would leave the door open for Santa. That seemed to be okay with her. Then a conversation with Kaiya in the car yesterday went something like this:

Kaiya: Mama, I see a lot of houses with chimneys!
Me: A lot of these houses do have chimneys.
Kaiya: Yeah, but you just have to be grateful for what you got on top.
Me: Giggle. That's right Kaiya.
Kaiya: Yep, just gotta be grateful.

Sounds like she is listening to us occasionally afterall. :) And I was glad I remembered Tony's mom has a fireplace and chimney. We had to call Nannie right away and make sure Santa would be able to use her chimney. Nannie assured Kaiya that she was going to clean the chimney out.

da Grinch

This is Kaiya, 3 years ago with the Grinch. Kaleb is terrified of this particular Grinch. We've had to keep it up in Kaiya's closet because it brings him to tears just seeing it. But the kids watched it on TV the other night and really liked it. So it has come down from the closet for a little while. Kaleb still starts backing up and saying, "no, no, no..." whenever he sees it. Kaiya's been sleeping with it this week.

Last night her bedtime prayer went like this: "Dear God, Help da Grinch not to do naughty things tonight. Like take our tree down and put it on the sleigh that he made. And keep me awake. In Jesus name, Amen."

Found a couple cute pictures of my kids on their Uncle Aaron's facebook page. The pictures are from earlier this summer and especially Kaleb has changed, but fun for a Monday post!

Mmmm... those eyes.

A Rarity

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving I was able to spend the afternoon and evening with one of my best friends! Her parents live in Raleigh (about 4 hrs away) and so we met halfway and spent 6 hours together. It had been a year since I'd seen her and one of the first times that I was kid-free doing what I wanted to be doing (i.e. not working). Ahhhh... it was wonderful. Catching up, shopping, eating. Here is our token picture in Old Navy. The cashier probably thought we were nuts, but I looked in my purse, saw my camera and had to take it before the day went by and I had forgotten.

Thanks B for a great day!