Finally a post from me!

Well, I have been ever so carefully taking down Christmas decorations and storing them. It is not an easy task, since Kara wants to help unpack everything I just put away, but oh well. I am almost done. The only thing left is taking down the tree. I finally got all the ornaments off the tree and found boxes for the new fragile ones. So all of that is put away. I will have to wait until Sunday to take it down though, because this weekend Aaron is racing a car. Not driving one mind you but he and Andy built a car for the boy scouts pinewood derby. They had a test run today and did o.k. It should be very exciting and I will probably type a separate blog just on that. Now, however, I will treat you to the kid-disms from the past few weeks, o.k. some are from thanksgiving.



Kara was drinking her glass of milk and looked at us, shook her head and said icccce cold.



We were getting out the extra serving of pumpkin pie to share with everyone and Aaron coughed on the whole dish. So he ended up getting the whole thing. Also, we put out the sugar bowl with breakfast and he stuck his finger right in the center. Yes, my house is germ central, we like to share.



Also, while Mike and Christi were visiting and a week after wards she was crawling around on all fours because Honey was.



The Sunday after Thanksgiving in church Kara was hilarious. I don't see how people hear a word the priest is saying when we are there, we are so distracting. Anyway, she was wearing her puddle boots which are slightly big for her. So Andy picked her up and a boot fell. She hollered, "There goes my boot!" We got that one back on and the other slipped off. Kara hollered, "The goes other boot!" Then during the homily she was folding her hands and whispering, "Pray to God. O.k. (then a pause) Pray to God. O.k." Then she mumbled something else and Aaron said, "What did she say?" and it echoed. Ughh. Then she was jumping up and down and hit her mouth on the pew and cried. We calmed her down and what did she do two seconds later, she jumped again and hit her mouth, so Andy had to take her outside to calm her down. When Andy got back he was a little tense so I whispered, "it's like Cirque de Druilhet in here." That got him to snicker. At this point, I think Andy suggested we just give Kara some cymbals and I about lost it. We get our best material for the blog at church, they are just so funny.

In December I was just starting to get the Christmas decorations and toys out. I told Aaron that he and Kara could open one of the boxes of toys when he got home from school. All morning Kara kept asking to open the box and I kept telling her when we get bubba from school. Well, then she pauses and looks at me and says, "So go get Aaron!" I again told her no, we have to wait until school is out. Then she smiles at me and says "abre". Because on Dora if you say open in Spanish (abre), the items open.

Aaron was dressing up and got out his pirate costume. Apparently a piece was missing from the set because he came running into the room and said, (in a pirate voice) "Whoever took my eye patch, prepare for the DOOM!" How can you not laugh?

Kara put one of her babies into a box and couldn't get the lid open. She was thinking aloud and said, "Get baby out of the box. I need tools. (she ran to her doctor kit) Hm...let me think. Scissors. Yes!"

Kara is also in the hitting stage which wasn't too bad with Aaron because it was just him, but with Kara she can take it out on Aaron as well. So she is getting some time outs where she has to count to twenty and then apologise. Well, after she counted to twenty we talked about why we don't hit. We asked her what she could do next time. She told us, "Count to twenty and THEN bonk his head!"

Aaron and Andy were playing Legos and Andy told him that he did a really good job building something. Aaron told him, "Daddy, I'm a pro. I'm a LEGO pro!"

Kara is getting quite possessive of everything. If Aaron uses the potty in their bathroom she tells him, "no, that's Kara's potty." Andy was getting some 1% milk for Aaron (which is the kind we use for Kara too) and she told him, "Ooops, that's my milk. Don't grab MY milk."

Aaron was feeling sick one day and Kara said, "I need my telescope." We told her no it's a stethoscope. She considered that for a minute. Then said, "Um..the scope." Then she ran to Aaron and said, "I'm a doctor." He looked at her and said, No Kara I don't feel good. She looked at us and with a smile said, "Oh, he's scared."

I made Aaron put his clothes away that I had folded and he came downstairs and said I did it i need a treat. Do I get a toy. I told him that I had folded all of it and I needed a treat. He looked at me and said, "Soda is a good treat."

Christmas eve was especially interesting at church. While the kids were singing Kara was singing AND checking out every poinsettia at the front. Then once mass started she noticed the manger and told us, "That's baby Jesus." Then she repeated it to us several times. "That's baby Jesus. That's baby Jesus." Then at the point where they normally have the collection the didn't. Apparently there isn't one on Christmas eve, but Kara kept asking loudly, "Where's the basket. Where's the BASKET."

We had lots of cookies at the holidays and Aaron touched one and said, "That cookie has my germs on it. Can I have it?

Then Kara was dragging something away that I needed so I told her Kara you're taking the box. She looked at me and said, "Yes, and it's fun!"

Later we were telling something to Kara and she misunderstood and said very surprised and confused, "Wait a minute. did you say Bonk my head???"