Moo Cow Mom and Sir Solitude

Jenny was thinking..... wouldn't it be fun if we pretended to be at the stable on night of Jesus' birth?
she was only talking about it, and i was hoping she wouldn't soon have me digging around pulling out sheets for us to wear and tying sheets to our head.
my mind was cranking, eyes scanning the room---what could i use to tie sheets to our head?

this is the cast assigned by director Jenny:

Daddy is Joseph
Troy is baby Jesus
Jenny is Mary.....

(do you see where this is going?)

Momma is .........a cow

BA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

i don't know who could possibly read that without laughing.

oh and she said Little Dee could play an angel. a boy angel.
HE COULD NEVER PASS FOR THAT!

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Tonight we talked about how God loves everybody, even Little Dee.

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Jenny had to potty.
Toilet needed to be flushed.
ok ready, set, go.
She likes her privacy lately. She shut the door as she was pulling down pants and preparing to make her acrobatic climb onto the big person potty. She called for me. I opened door and she informed me of her problem:
"the potty doesn't want me to sit on it"

the toilet was still running (filling up) making water noise!!

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Troy likes to go into his room and shut door. i have been calling him "Sir Solitude". if you open door he will flash big grin to you. he thinks it is so fun to be by himself.

tonight he came out of his bedroom and he had such a "knowing" grin. he had a big children's bible held tight to his chest and he was hugging and swinging left to right which is a motion that he only does for bibles and babies. he was saying bible over and over. there is always about 50 books pulled off shelf into his floor. HOW did he know that was a bible?

Jenny funnies

Jenny will start to have a hissy fit and often gets sent to her room. i tell her that i will come talk to her when she stops crying (aka lecture her). this is a common routine. sometimes she will stop crying and call for me, or poke her head out of her bedroom door, and she will quietly say:
"momma, i think i can control myself now"

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reading "the Christmas story" golden book about baby Jesus:

Jenny is very concerned about all the townspeople of Bethlehem not having any shoes on. also discussed are concerns about bare feet of angels and shepherds.

then the footwear of Mary, Joseph, King Herod and the wise men is critiqued and admired.

another point of interest is the wise men having only one camel. she is worried about the 2 wise men who travel on foot.

me---------"well maybe they take turns riding."
jenny------"yeah, one can ride in front and then the other one gets a turn riding in the front."

and then referring to the staff (or walking stick) that one wise man is holding:

jenny------"and they can take turns holding the stick"

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today my girl had some of the "random pukes" as we call it. she is just now at this age agreeing to puke in a toilet. this is a wonderful thing. for a long time i was just glad i had talked her into puking into the tub. i'm a little confused but i think if she had her way she'd like to simply puke into a towel. (horrors)

ANYWAY, today i got a real newsflash that she is growing up b/c:

1. she did not even tell us she was headed to puke, she just ran to toilet with hand over mouth
2. she made it to toilet 2 out of 2 times
   
3. she shut the bathroom door for these events
4. she quietly puked without any screaming or tears afterward
5. she managed to do this fully dressed up like princess even in her high heels/tiara

i'm getting the feeling she is gonna be one heck of a woman.

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today we put up our tree. we spent a portion of the day making room in our den for the tree. finally will brought it in. it is pre-lit. awesome.
we set it up and the kids' eyes were big as saucers. this was right before naptime. i told Jenny we would put the ornaments on right before bedtime. she was totally thrilled that "Christmas is here".

she was a little confused that Santa was coming while she slept. we told her several times that it is a couple of weeks til Santa visits.

I put Troy in his crib for nap and took Jenny to read a book and tuck in for nap. Will headed out to Taco Bell to get us some lunch.

Later Jenny was still not asleep when Will returned from town. She rarely will come out of her room at sleep time. but she heard the garage door and sacks rustling in the kitchen. we heard her tiny voice from the hall:
"Santa? is that you?"

and then when it was time to wake from nap and get ready for church, she sat on the end of her bed, looking up at me with sleepy, hopeful eyes and said:
"did i get presents??!"