Promise?

Sadie and I are having a battle of the wills today. It hasn't been a pleasant day for either of us.
She just yelled, "I am NEVER going to talk to that mama again!!"
Unfortunately, that little threat didn't last very long. :Þ

We Are So Excited!

We are all so excited for Christmas tomorrow. Bethanie has kept us up to date on the count down for a few weeks now. It is so much fun because this year both of the girls understand what is going on.
This year Bethanie has asked Santa for a "cash register". Sadie has asked Santa for a "pat pat rocket" and a "barbie that cooks".
The girls have been good this year and I think they will avoid the coal. :)

She's Been Hit

I just wanted to share this picture of Bethanie after being hit by a snowball. Who was the culprit? Her own father! Can you believe it? :)

Caught You!

Recently we have had to remind Sadie CONSTANTLY to keep her finger out of her nose.
The other night we were sitting at dinner when, out of nowhere, Sadie says,
"Mom, a long, long, long, long time ago I saw you with your finger in your nose."

The Evil Twin

Sadie has an evil twin. Whenever I ask her what she is doing, when she is doing something that she probably shouldn't be, she always responds with, "I am not Sadie. I am Emily."
Yesterday her father met Emily for the first time. He was unaware of the evil twin.
He had a long conversation with Emily. He asked her where she was from, where her family lived, etc.
She had valid and consistent answers for every question given.
When he asked why Emily looked so much like Sadie, Sadie told him that sometimes friends look alike.
I told Sean I wanted to meet Emily's mother to make sure Sean had nothing to do with Emily's existence. :)

This Deal Is Over!

Tonight at dinner we had peas. Sadie made up a new, and very surprising, song. The words were quite repetitive, but they went like this...
"I just can't get enough peas, I just can't get enough peas... I need more peas, cause I just can't get enough peas!"
After asking for seconds of her peas and polishing those off, I told her that she needed to eat her chicken and her rice. She told me that she was done eating. I told her she wasn't done until she ate some of her chicken and rice.
She said, "This is MY deal and this deal is OVER!!"

Dressing Up

I just HAD to post this picture.

A Mission Call

My brother Chad opened his mission call last night. He is going to the Montreal, Canada mission. He will be speaking French. Cool, huh?

Print It

This morning Sadie told me her brother was going to look like her. He needed to have curly hair. She insisted. Then she said, "Curly hair, print it out."

That's An Order!

Sadie was just doing the potty dance in front of me. I told her to run and use the bathroom. She turned around and bolted down the hall screaming all of the way.
She kept screaming, "Don't go pee pee on the floor, Sadie! Don't go pee pee on the floor, Sadie!"
She yelled that until she was firmly planted on the toilet.
She made it. :)

That's Funny

Sean and I haven't gotten a real tree for Christmas since Bethanie's first Christmas. We bought a fake one the following year and have used that ever since. This year Sean decided he want a big, beautiful, real tree. We have cathedral ceilings in our home, so we wanted to go big.
Friday night we took the girls to a tree farm. We froze as we walked around for a half hour picking out the perfect fir tree. We finally settled on a tree that is 8 1/2 feet tall. I must say, it didn't seem quite so tall standing next to all of the other trees out there!
A man came over and cut it down for us. Then he took it over to a little station where they prepped and wrapped it up for the ride home.
Sadie asked, "What is he doing to that tree?"
Sean, "He is getting it ready for us to take home."
Sadie, "We are taking the tree HOME?"
Sean, "Yes, we are going to go decorate it."
Sadie, "Hmmm... That's funny!"
I don't think that moment would have stuck out to me as much if the guy helping us didn't start cracking up at that point. He thought Sadie was hilarious.
We spent Saturday afternoon decorating our tree. It is lovely and we are happy.

Not Anything

On Friday night Sadie had a little indentity crisis. Her once very curly hair is nto so curly anymore. It is wavy if we let it air dry, but a lot of the curl has grown out of it.
Sadie said, "Mommy, my hair isn't curly anymore! I am not Sadie. I don't have curly hair so I am not Sadie. I have straight hair now so I am not anything. I want to be Sadie again! You have to make my hair get curly again! I am not anything!"

SNOW!

Bethanie came running in to my bedroom this morning very happy.
"The first BIG snow mom! The first big snow! It is so exciting! It is the FIRST big snow, that makes it even more exciter!" (No, that isn't a typo.)

Bethanie Is On A Roll

For a while Sadie was the one saying all of the quotable things. Lately, Bethanie has been cranking them out!
This morning Bethanie asked me why some people have freckles and some people don't. I told her that it had something to do with your genetic make up. (I was tired and that was all that would come to my poor brain.)
Bethanie said, "Ohhhh.... You let me wear make up sometimes!!"

Who Was Right?

At breakfast Bethanie and Sadie were talking about the movie, "The Little Mermaid". Bethanie was saying that Ariel was right and her dad was wrong.
When I was young I thought that too. Now that I am a parent I completely and totally see that her dad was 100% right. :)
I told Bethanie that Ariel's dad was right and Ariel would have been a lot better off if she had obeyed her dad.
That was when she said, "But mom, every girl needs to get a man!!"

I Love You

When Bethanie was about 3 she used to tell me that she loved me all of the time. I would reply with "I love you more!".
One day she came up with her very own Bethanie word that has stuck around in our family since then. On one of those occasions when I told her that I loved her more, she said, "I love you the more-thest!"
I told her that I loved her the "more-thest, more-thest".
We went on from there until she came to the conclusion that she loved me the "more-thest infinity".
Today Bethanie and Sadie told Sean and me that they loved us the "more-thest infinity".
I love that term now and I love to use it right back at the two of them.