Well, little Miss Avaroo, Santa wanted me to let you know he is having a difficult time this year with some of your requests.  The problem is, that they don't actually exist.  The elves are trying to get really creative, but they don't know if they can come up with some of these items.  Here is what you asked for this year:

• Clothing for pinky, specifically a costume and a pretty dress.  Remember pinky is a blanket.  They make clothes for adults, children, dolls, dogs, cats, but Santa has never seen clothing for blankets.  Pretty tough to even fathom because where would the head go?  Pinky dosen't have arms or legs so Santa is pretty stumped.
• Request number two:  a lego shirt, specifically a shirt that you can attach legos to.  What a great idea right?  If you are bored or waiting in line you can just play with the legos attached to your shirt! 
• Bed sheets that have christmas lights on them.  You do not want sheets with a picture of christmas lights on them, you want actual sheets that will light up.  Once again, Santa has never even heard of such a thing!  Although they do make shirts that light up, so maybe maybe maybe in some far reaches of the world wide web these could be found? 

Santa has decided that Ava officially recieves the award for most creative Christmas requests!  Maybe you should be an inventor when you grow up!

Heavy Heart

Doing lots of praying tonight for the community of Newtown, Connecticut.

Hugging all my children tight.

I dropped my five year old off at school today, and picked him up safely.  

Not everyone was so lucky.

As a former teacher and current parent I'm beyond horrified.   

Terrrrrrrrrible Twos

Dawson, boy you are into EVERYTHING.  I know that your little brain is programmed right now to explore, manipulate and discover how things work.  It is becoming more difficult with each day to keep you safe and my house out of disaster zone and hopefully in the semi-acceptable range.  Here are a couple of examples:

• Today we made gingerbread cookies.  Everyone was standing at the island in the kitchen and I was gathering the ingredients.  I set down the eggs and milk {far away from you, nonetheless} and turned around to grab the flour.  Ten seconds later you had moved your chair and cracked an egg onto the counter.
• Also during the gingerbread fiasco, I was helping Carter stir his batter and you had grabbed Ava's batter and pushed it onto the floor.  Luckily it landed batter side up, so we were ok.
• You love to play in the bathroom sink.  I don't mind you playing in the water, but I'd like to supervise to make sure to contain the mess and make sure you won't destroy anything.  
• You love playing with the blue ray player, electrical outlets and DVD's.  I swear as soon as I go to the restroom you make a beeline for these off-limit desirables.  
• The three of you were sitting around the table water coloring and I turned around for a second and you are drinking the paint water.  YUM!

Dawson, sweetie, these are just the crazy things you did TODAY!  I swear I'm getting too old for this!  

Today

1 five year old interested in drawing a picture of a fire

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1 two year old interested in drawing on the hot glass of the fireplace

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Now I know what burning crayon smells like.

{It's not a pleasant smell.}

Plus some weekend snuggling with Bo and Grandma.

Santa Brunch

This weekend we went to a Santa Brunch.  There was a potluck brunch, and the kids ran around with friends, jumped on bounce houses and played with toys.  Then the big guy arrived! 

Carter chatting with the big guy.  He also brought a present for each child.

Transformer!

I love this big grin on her face!  Santa picked an awesome Barbie!

Dawson climbed right up on Santa's lap.  After a minute or two he stuck out his lower lip and was done, but I was proud of his bravery!  Anything for a present, I guess.

Henry!

Fun morning was had by all!

Merry Christmas

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